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Door handles? We don't need no stinking door handles!
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Not a DAX. It's a West Coast Cobra. Stallion is the same car. Look at the rear fenders.
http://www.cobrakit.com/Hardtop/Terry10.jpg http://www.cobrakit.com/Factory/Elias/DSCF0009.jpg |
I like the hard top!
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Me too, I2F. Best looking hardtop I have seen.
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The front fenders look like the Stallions, the hood came off a Dax, and the rear fenders from a West Coast, all in all a highly modified Cobra body.
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Definitely not a West Coast, nothing even looks close on that car. Being a European car, I would be a it's a brand most of us aren't too familiar with. It's definitely had some extensive body mods, regardless of the original brand.
It kind of looks like a Mercedes Cobra. :) |
Just like here at home, there are a heap of different companies making replicas with all sorts of minor fiddly things to tell them apart. It could be anyone of a dozen different Euro brands or a transplanted American variety. Just not my cup of tea, Pepsi or what have you ....but I love the blue hardtop.
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jeesh. I'm gonna have to get my eyeballs recalibrated. Those tear drop, over-sized rear and front fenders with fuel filler in the center and exposed trunk hinges I thought were a dead give away. What about these cars are so dissimilar? |
Owning a WC, I'd say it was also a WC or Stallion. Wide hips, no lips. If you look closely to the left of the oil cooler air intake, you can see the lower corner of the radiator as you can on a WC. I also blew up the pic to see that the bumperettes use a single tubular mount as the WC. The filler cap doesn't seem to be on the right fender as most Cobras but the WC's is in the middle of deck just in front of the trunk lid. That area is blocked by the high rise passenger seat so I can't be sure. The side pipes also turn down at about 45 deg as some of the WC's do.
There is also some obvious customization. The gills definitely look MBish. The scoop is not original to the WC and the back of the doors seem lower than they should be. Also, the pads that surround the top of the cockpit are missing if it is indeed a WC. My impression is that it could be a WC modified to sit on a SL Chassis as xracerbob suggested. But then again, what do I know? |
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If you look at the details like I did, you can see it really shares nothing with a West Coast Cobra. |
Well, we have three votes for the hardtop......
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I hadn't realized there were more pics on page 1 but after seeing them, I still feel this started out as a WC or Stallion. Granted the taillights are a little different but that 3/4 shot from from the rear sure looks close to mine. In that same shot you just get a hint of the instrument cluster in the midle which is also indicative of a WC. The filler cap is in the right position and the exposed trunk hinges look right, at least compared to my 1998 model. But, I also noticed that the front and rear bottom edges of the rear fender wells are more squared than a WC, but as with other items on the car, it has undergone some "mods".
The bottom line is that no one here can be sure what it is unless they've had some direct contact on the build or talked to the owner/driver. It's fun guessing though. |
My first impression was that it started out as a Stallion or West Coast, since it looks like the Kellison Stallion sitting in my garage.
The original Kellison Stallions changed names a number of times before eventually ending up in Germany (see previous posting). Subsequently, other manufacturers including West Coast continued to make them here in the USA. My gut feeling is that it's a modified version of one of the German cars. Anyone with relatives in Nurburg? |
This one looks almost the same and just as hideous.
http://www.supercars.ae/cobra.html |
(http://www.supercars.ae/cobra.html)
Now if they slapped some running boards on the side of it just over the pipes, they would match the side mirrors. The more hideous these things get, the more my old Marvia is starting to look almost like a real one. The old girl looks better each day. |
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Hideous is in the eyes of the beholder. I think the guy did an incredible job of accentuating the lines of the Cobra and expressed it in rolling art form. Well done. This, my friends, is HIDEOUS http://www.thunderranch.com/KBC%20Ar...cobravette.png |
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