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02-08-2004, 01:44 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Northport,
NY
Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham, KMP178 / '66 GT350H, 4-speed
Posts: 10,362
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02-08-2004, 02:05 PM
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Senile Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Buffalo, NY USA,
NY
Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance
Posts: 4,566
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Ron,
Thanks, those are the pictures that are on my dead hard drive.
Rick 
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02-08-2004, 02:08 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Northport,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham, KMP178 / '66 GT350H, 4-speed
Posts: 10,362
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(sshhh...found 'em in your Gallery.) 
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02-08-2004, 05:21 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Castle Rock,
CO
Cobra Make, Engine:
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Thanks for all this info. No wonder I was confused!
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02-08-2004, 06:26 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Chicago 'Burb,
Il
Cobra Make, Engine: SPF#1245 w/ 1966 427 SO
Posts: 1,167
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..........That's the baby! Does anyone know where the car is today?
Computorworks - you're the man. There's other pic's out there as well. I remember seeing some of the car sitting in a warehouse and you could see the rims. Neat color car (different).
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02-08-2004, 06:42 PM
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Senile Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Buffalo, NY USA,
NY
Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance
Posts: 4,566
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Ron..
..... DOH!!!!!!!
Rick 
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02-08-2004, 06:43 PM
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Banned
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: New Jersey,
N.J
Cobra Make, Engine: Shelby Cobra CSX4206 aluminum body, original 1965 NASCAR 427 SO, Dual quads.
Posts: 3,897
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Dan: I know what its like to get brain fade. See my "read" on what MarkIV said above on the "Breaking Cobra News" Thread.
BTW: I do like a good lawyer joke.  You guys are sooo serious! 
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02-08-2004, 07:40 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Feb 1999
Location: Kansas City,
MO
Cobra Make, Engine: CRL, 351W, Tremec TKO
Posts: 2,299
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Evan,
Surf on over to: http://www.nolo.com/humor/jokes.cfm
Some real nice lawyer jokes. I particuarly liked: "A small town that can’t support one lawyer can always support two."
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Pete K.
Who is John Galt?
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02-08-2004, 08:08 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Mark IV.......in YOUR gallery??? Ha Ha HA HA,,,now that takes the cake!
Gabriel, new player in the Soap Opera on the J. Price team, making a note (hard to keep track of who's who you know).
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02-09-2004, 05:28 AM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Anglesey,
UK
Cobra Make, Engine: Hawk 289FiA with Le Mans hardtop. AC CS(X)2131,289 (my father owned it from `67-`73)
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I would guess that the FIA car is now in Rome, judging by the chariot wheels it`s fitted with! 
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02-09-2004, 05:37 AM
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Senile Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Buffalo, NY USA,
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Ernie...
....Mr. Diaz is no longer part of "the loop" and has no interest in this matter. He was (is) a gentleman who loves the cars and wanted to help save AC. The posistion he held was offered to me but I was unable to participate financially.
I do not believe that Gabriel wouild be able to add anything to this dialog currently.
Rick
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02-09-2004, 06:07 AM
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Hoosier Gashole Emeritus
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Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Richmond,
IN
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The AC car is currently under wraps at Ronnie Kruger's facility in Virginia and has my name emblossed on it's MSO.
I've been trying to obtain the car for a side by side comparison between the Superformance and Shelby CSX 4000.
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02-15-2004, 09:50 AM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Crawley,
WS
Cobra Make, Engine: AC427 MkIII of 2004 vintage
Posts: 1,210
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The last time I saw that FIA car I was hanging out of the upstairs window at Frimley, taking snaps of it and the staff of AC Autokraft for their press release, and it definitely had the correct wheels fitted. Who walked off with them?
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02-15-2004, 10:59 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Outside Miami,
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The wheels didn't fit properly, per Diaz and were sent back to supplier in CA at one point.
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02-15-2004, 11:18 AM
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Senile Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Buffalo, NY USA,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance
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The wheels
supplied were 1" wider than the original FIA wheels. To allow full lock on the fronts the tie rods must be bent, something I understand was done on some of the original FIA cars.
There are pictures of COB1001, the bare alloy FIA I had with the wheels on in my gallery.
Durn purty cars!
Rick
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02-15-2004, 12:27 PM
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Location: Outside Miami,
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All true. And it seems the rear wheel interference was caused by the expanded rear emergency brake bits not being retracted propoerly and preventing rolling during its initial trip to Amelia Island and the Palm Beach Polo Club.
Not good for a roller not to roll.
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02-15-2004, 05:37 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Los Angeles,
CA
Cobra Make, Engine: 1968 AC COBRA COB 6132, 427 SC Side Oiler the last original AC chassis built for Paramount
Posts: 537
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?????Please excuse my ignorance but what was the purpose of the two left and right ledges formed on the trunk just below the logo and above the license plate light???? I don't see this on all of the FIAs. How many were built like this??, er original FIAs, that is.
Shin
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Enjoy the six pleasures of life: Good Health, Good Food, Good Friends, Good Sleep, Good Sex, and Driving your Cobra
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02-15-2004, 07:09 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Bloomfield Hills, (Detroit area),
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Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance 156, ex Paxton 351, now a 392 Ford Racing Stroker
Posts: 1,666
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per the Registry : "altered trunk contour ( to accommodate FIA SUITCASE )"
My understanding of that in layman terms : Required per later FIA European altered regulations. hence the squared 'notches' protruding from the trunk outward, so that the required suitcase could be contained within the trunk, the 'squared off' protrusions allowed the squared corner suitcase to fit . Bill.
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02-16-2004, 04:38 AM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Anglesey,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Hawk 289FiA with Le Mans hardtop. AC CS(X)2131,289 (my father owned it from `67-`73)
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I believe that the marks appeared as a result of someone slamming the bootlid(...sorry, trunk!) down ont the regulation FIA suitcase... All the FiA cars would have had to accomodate the suitcase, so was the lid slammed on ALL of them 
or were they panelbeaten to fit??
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"If I plagiarize, it's only because I like someone else's idea better than mine and I want credit for it."- nikbj68
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02-16-2004, 04:44 AM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Bloomfield Hills, (Detroit area),
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Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance 156, ex Paxton 351, now a 392 Ford Racing Stroker
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NIKBJ68 :
the SLAMMING of the boot may have become the 'prototype'. LOL...the registry suggests the 'bumps' were panel beaten as they say "altered trunk contour to accommodate FIA suitcase', suggesting it was a running change due to required suit case. but hey, i am guessing..someone here must know the facts ! bill
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