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02-19-2004, 08:29 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: God's country,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Original ERA 427sc, Powered by Gessford
Posts: 2,678
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SPF pronunciation?
This has been bugging me for a long time, what's the correct way to pronounce Superformance? I've heard it pronounced a couple different ways, including "Super Formance."
Or is it a play on words where the "per" belongs to both the "Sup" and "formance" yielding "Super Performance"?
And please don't tell me I need a secret decoder ring to find out 
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02-19-2004, 09:09 PM
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Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: SF East Bay,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF
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No decoder ring but if you don't know the secret hand shake then I can't tell you. 
Honestly though, I always assumed it was pronounced super-formance.
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02-19-2004, 09:39 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Folsom,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA 623, 427 S/C Cobra. Ford FE 428 Cobra Jet, Ford Nascar TL 4speed - with a touch of raw; "less is more" theme
Posts: 3,880
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Soup uh fo mantz
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Western States Cobra Group 1998-2016.
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02-19-2004, 10:13 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Evans,
CO
Cobra Make, Engine: NAF 289 FIA, 347 stroker with Weber 48's, building a '48 Anglia gasser, driving a '55 Chevy resto-rod
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SPF--leaves 'em confused 
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02-20-2004, 04:01 AM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Morristown,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF #623 460/4x2
Posts: 858
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If we tell you...we'd have to make you buy one.
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02-20-2004, 04:16 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
Posts: 1,666
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LOL :
I don't know...this is a tough one....ya gotta deal with the decoder ring...secret handshake... initiation with no hazing (well, maybe some) ....once ya survive the members vote for admission...HUH...???..once ya buy one you get a choice of vhs , cassette or cd that is kind of like the Berlitz language course...
dont tell anyone, but the instructor says FOLLOW ME :
can you say SU-PER-FOR-MANCE....sure you can..., repeat: SU-PER-FOR-MANCE...ok, a little faster now..equal time on each syllable with just a little extra emphasis on SU...yep, thats it...a little more now on PER....OK< THATS IT...SUPERFORMANCE !!!
whew...thank goodness for language instructors. Bill SPF 156, as in SU-PER-FOR-MANCE one-fifty-six
Last edited by Bill Wells; 02-20-2004 at 04:54 AM..
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02-20-2004, 04:24 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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OOPS....I just checked the SPF dictionary and learned that there are other interpretations used by some select folks who are not members of the society, those whose decoder rings were recovered and whose hands were not allowed to do the secret hand shake.
some of those folks in retaliation have sought other advice and remedies seeking legal relief . for them the spelling is changed and an additional vowel is added with MUCH more emphasis oh the first syllable SUE , thus you might see some refer to it as :
............. SUEPERFORMANCE ................
LOL...Bill, SPF (with only 2 "E's") , 156
Last edited by Bill Wells; 02-20-2004 at 04:55 AM..
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02-20-2004, 08:48 AM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Whitehouse Station,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SOLD: 2013 Boss 302 Mustang #2775 (both options). SOLD: 95 Mustang Cobra R #4 of 250 "Rosie's Diner" car. SOLD: CCX2-2505, #5 of 7 289 FIAs ever produced at Contemporary! my first Cobra: Unique 427SC w/ 428CJ moder!
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SU-PERFORMANCE.
... then again, is it pronounced:
SA--TUR-DAY
SA- TUR--DAY
or SA-TUR- DAY??????
 
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02-20-2004, 09:48 AM
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Location: San Francisco CA,
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No John,
It' pronounced Sat tur tur day, just like Su per per formance.
Now that we are on the subject, why is it called a "hot water heater" if the water is hot, why do you need to heat it?
--Mike
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02-20-2004, 10:53 AM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Fairfield, NJ, USA,
NJ
Cobra Make, Engine: A & C, 351W, Tremec 3550. Exiled Member: Club Cranky
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Who is Superformance?
Roscoe
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02-20-2004, 11:18 AM
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Location: Moorpark,California,
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Damn you guys; don't tell or "show" them anything on this public forum!
If these "outsiders" want to know they must join our secret club and "THEN" they will learn all the "poop".
Howard
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02-20-2004, 11:25 AM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Whitehouse Station,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SOLD: 2013 Boss 302 Mustang #2775 (both options). SOLD: 95 Mustang Cobra R #4 of 250 "Rosie's Diner" car. SOLD: CCX2-2505, #5 of 7 289 FIAs ever produced at Contemporary! my first Cobra: Unique 427SC w/ 428CJ moder!
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Howard,
Then you shouldn't invite "outsiders" to SPF sponsored events like the Olthoffs do with Club Cranky at VIR!!!
Love and Kisses,
A lesser Contemporary owner. 
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02-20-2004, 12:00 PM
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Renegade Nuns on Wheels
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: columbus,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Unique 427 roadster with 351C-4B
Posts: 5,129
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I always thought SPF was Sun Protection Factor or perhaps even surreptitious policy factor.  As for the word "Superformance". I think it is just plain spelled wrong. Probably stuck as an escalation of commitment sort of thing. You know "DAMN, you mean to tell me we printed a million of these things and the name is spelled wrong! Oh, well. Lets roll with it".
Rick
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