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12-24-2006, 05:42 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Prince Frederick,
MD
Cobra Make, Engine: Unique 427 S/C 427 FE S.O. 484 cu in
Posts: 952
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Bumpster, I think you need to put some photos of your car in your gallery.
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12-24-2006, 07:52 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Manchester,
NH
Cobra Make, Engine: AK1085 (302 Street), HTM111 (427 Comp), CSX2375R (289 Comp) and COB5999 (427 S/C)
Posts: 19,111
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Tony,
I second that!
Jeff
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12-25-2006, 04:52 AM
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Evryday is a roadstr day
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: North Jakarta, Indonesia,
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Cobra Make, Engine: RHD Hurricane street roadster HM1081 aging nicely in the garage
Posts: 5,725
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The color of A98 kind of reminds me of having a pie floater on a cold night in the Adelaide Train station, warm and smooth going down but the second time around, oh Lordy......both of them pea green...and how I hate pea soup.
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12-25-2006, 11:29 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Billings,
MT
Cobra Make, Engine:
Posts: 365
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Fastraxsg,
Thanks for the image. Unlike my breakfast, I'll carry it with me for the rest of the day.
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A beautiful car, precisely assembled. Unfortunately I don't fit. Sold it after four hundred miles. Well, at least now I know a Cobra is not a car I can own.
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01-02-2007, 03:45 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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A98 AC Coupé
Hi guys,
My name is Robin. Currentley I'm building CSX2002 (XP98) and also AC's A98.
To build A98, I've started with a 289 frame. After building the chassis, the real challenge is in making a buck to build the aluminum body.
Looking for pictures of the A98, I think I can help?
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01-02-2007, 10:36 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Vero Beach,
FL
Cobra Make, Engine: COX 6111 - '66 "AC 289 Sports."
Posts: 1,572
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Robin - A curious post.
Did you mean to say you are building copies of the two cars you mention? Because the real ones don't need building.
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01-08-2007, 04:16 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Scottsdale,
az
Cobra Make, Engine: Bought an Exact carbon car in TX. Bought a 427 sideoiler with 630 HP
Posts: 1,714
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I too like the looks of the 289 front and comp. rear. I don't think it would get enough air to the radiator to cool a big block. Highway driving would probably be OK but not stop and go traffic. (I have been wrong many times though.)
Opinions?
John
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double ugly
The average fighter pilot, despite the sometimes swaggering exterior, is very much capable of such feelings as love, affection, intimacy and caring. These feelings just don't involve anybody else.
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01-08-2007, 07:27 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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I would think the smaller 289 style opening would STILL let in as much air as your cooling fans could pull at low mph or idle condition. Size wouldn't even be a factor when cruising.
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01-09-2007, 02:15 AM
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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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ugly x2
Errr, fit a small block...?
Robin
I do hope you are planning a 'replica' of A98 and not the real deal, otherwise there might be a problem, as Ned has correctly pointed out. Good luck with that one, since if you do not have accurate measurements taken from the original, it will be a hard shape to replicate.
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01-09-2007, 12:05 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Crawley,
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Cobra Make, Engine: AC427 MkIII of 2004 vintage
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It was designed and built in early 1964 (possibly earlier) and the finished car surfaced at the Le Mans Speed Trials in April. It's doubtful that the Daytona was an influence since, in every respect, the AC has a totally different approach and solution to the same set of problems - as confirmed by Peter Brock. If you start with a Cobra chassis, cockpit and windscreen and draw an aerodynamic body around them, you will always end up with something that looks like this - or a Daytona - or a Maserati 151/3 of 1963 vintage (etc)
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