$26,000 Buys The Car!!!!!!

[1badmofo]

Hray,

I am sure you would love the car if it wasn't for the CA thing.

[Ron61]

Sid,

I agree with what Hray said. Your car is very nice and in my humble opinion worth what you are asking. It is more accurate than the one I had except for the motor. I did use a stroked 351 and a 5 speed. No 5 speeds or 351s in the originals. Some originals did have automatics and several replicas around here have them. Mine had the wrong wheel base, 94", wrong roll bar, I had one 3" one that went all the way across the back, wrong collectors as I didn't use the 4 into 1 set up, and many other things the purists would throw up about. But I built the car for me and not everyone else. And I had no problem at all selling it except I hated to watch it leave for Arkansas. But I had 11 years of fun with it. So don't get discouraged by any remarks people may make. And Cobra Country is a good place to list them too.

Ron

[CobraEd]

Carol Shelby's personal Cobra was an automatic!!!!!


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[saltytri]

Ron has the right attitude. He is obviously a smart guy and besides, he lives just down the highway from me so he's got to be OK.

This is a hobby. Hobbies are supposed to be fun. If "authenticity" is fun for you, go for it. If a Chebbie motor is fun for you, that works just fine. The Cobra world is a big place and there's lots of room for everyone.

Someone is going to get a nice Hurricane for $26K and enjoy the heck out of it.

David

[Ron61]

David,

Now that the weather is getting nice when are you going to come down and visit? I think our rain is over now and I had to turn the air conditioner on yesterday for the first time.

Ron

[RedBarchetta]

Originally Posted by saltytri

Ron has the right attitude. He is obviously a smart guy and besides, he lives just down the highway from me so he's got to be OK.

This is a hobby. Hobbies are supposed to be fun. If "authenticity" is fun for you, go for it. If a Chebbie motor is fun for you, that works just fine. The Cobra world is a big place and there's lots of room for everyone.

Someone is going to get a nice Hurricane for $26K and enjoy the heck out of it.

David

Agreed and well said! Before I started reading this forum, I too was considering the Chevy motor route (as that is all I really knew mechanically). I eventually got talked out of it here ( ) and at a local SPF dealer, but it was good advice from a re-sale standpoint. When you're driving down the road, very few (and I mean .001 of 1%) of the people listening to you cruise by will know the difference whether it's a Chevy or a Ford, BB or SB, until you stop and pop the hood (bonnet).

-Dean