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View Poll Results: In the Shelby vs SAAC dispute who are you with
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11-30-2007, 09:02 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Outside Miami,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Several
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With regard only to Shelby Cobras, would it be helpful to answer the question, "Is that a Cobra?", with... "Yep, but it is a new Shelby Cobra."
"The old ones were made in the early to middle sixties, but this is a new one, with some nice improvements (OR, if so, "It is made exactly like the old ones")." Etc.
Refering to them as old or new seems more simple and practical an answer. Anyway, it is what i do and people seem to understand right away. Nor would i be stretching the truth in any meaningful way.
Ps: Don't forget, Shelby isn't the only company/person that made either original cobras or "continuation" Cobras; according to both SAAC, FORD and Shelby, AC Cars Limited also made Cobras, just not Shelby Cobras.
Remember too that "all" 289 Cobras were called AC Cobras, NOT Shelby Cobras, though many many US States registered them many different ways, even as FORD 2 door roadsters.
Quite different than Shelby and FORD, AC Cars Limited continued building AC Cobras of various types and specifications for many years, long after the others stopped. They were made the same way, by mostly the same people, on the same equipment, mostly at the same factory (until the new one) and mostly with the same small dimentional errors and variances as the old ones. But, with better paint jobs.
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Last edited by What'saCobra?; 11-30-2007 at 09:06 PM..
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11-30-2007, 09:17 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: CSX Cars
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Hi my name is Allan, I have a cobra, it is was not built in 1960's, no it is was not built in Poland, no it does not have a 427 side oiler. Yes, I belong to SAAC. Yes I can drive with the Vintage group, Yes I like your wife, Yes, I like to drink with other Ford friends except CSX 700?
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11-30-2007, 09:44 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Midland Park,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA 389 427s/o
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At one time or another all of us get the question, "is it a real?".
99% of us, I have to believe, give the best answer possible. 99% of the people looking at the car probably say something like -- "damn - that is a cool car".
99% of the people visiting at the majority of car shows could give a rats a$$ if it is real, fake, original, replica, reproduction, or continuation. HOWEVER, 99% of the people know flatulation when they hear it coming back.
People will stop, admire, talk and enjoy a car more if they enjoy the whole interactive experience.
Who THE PHUCK cares. Let SAAC and Shelby have at it. Enjoy your friggin cars for what they are -- Loud, fast, smelly, gas guzzling, grin making, 4 wheels of fun. That applies to the CSX 4000 series as well as all replicas. Any Cobra looking car made after '70 are meant for driving.
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12-01-2007, 05:23 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Prince Frederick,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Unique 427 S/C 427 FE S.O. 484 cu in
Posts: 952
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Originally Posted by JWheaton
At one time or another all of us get the question, "is it a real?".
99% of us, I have to believe, give the best answer possible. 99% of the people looking at the car probably say something like -- "damn - that is a cool car".
99% of the people visiting at the majority of car shows could give a rats a$$ if it is real, fake, original, replica, reproduction, or continuation. HOWEVER, 99% of the people know flatulation when they hear it coming back.
People will stop, admire, talk and enjoy a car more if they enjoy the whole interactive experience.
Who THE PHUCK cares. Let SAAC and Shelby have at it. Enjoy your friggin cars for what they are -- Loud, fast, smelly, gas guzzling, grin making, 4 wheels of fun. That applies to the CSX 4000 series as well as all replicas. Any Cobra looking car made after '70 are meant for driving.
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People that go to car shows only want to see bling.
I built a Cobra replica for me to enjoy.
An original would be to hard to enjoy because of the worry factor.
I love making milk runs in my load two seater roadster.
All this BS is is not fun.
Evan is so easy to bait and you guys should be ashamed. 
Now Jamie go find Chaplins parts to his car you lost so he can be smiling again.
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12-01-2007, 05:53 AM
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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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WANTED: Senior moderator for Team Shelby website. Must be able to crap on any non Shelby discussions in the blink of a butthole. Must be able to reinvent history and ignore the total chaos in the automotive communities over any pending legal issues.
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12-01-2007, 02:46 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Greenville,
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Cobra Make, Engine: 70 Shelby convertible, ERA-289 FIA, ERA 289 roadster hybrid, mystery Ford powered 2dr convertible
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11-30-2007, 09:47 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: CSX2321
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Originally Posted by What'saCobra?
With regard only to Shelby Cobras, would it be helpful to answer the question, "Is that a Cobra?", with... "Yep, but it is a new Shelby Cobra."
"The old ones were made in the early to middle sixties, but this is a new one, with some nice improvements (OR, if so, "It is made exactly like the old ones")." Etc.
Refering to them as old or new seems more simple and practical an answer. Anyway, it is what i do and people seem to understand right away. Nor would i be stretching the truth in any meaningful way.
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I would agree What'sa has a good suggestion. The "new" Shelby Cobras are not 1965, '66, or '67 cars. They are 2002, 2003 etc. cars built to look like the cars of the '60's
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