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06-02-2008, 12:47 PM
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Location: Mechanicsburg,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Everett-Morrison, 429CI
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I think Mrmustang alluded to an important issue, and I apologize if I've misinterpreted his point.....if you bought the car to fulfill anybody elses dream but your own, then you may have made a poor choice regardless of the cars origin.
I think the best question I was ever asked was not "is it real", but "where do you take it to get it fixed"? When I told him, to my garage, I got the most satisfaction providing that answer than any other I've provided.
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06-02-2008, 12:55 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chaplain
I think the best question I was ever asked was not "is it real", but "where do you take it to get it fixed"? When I told him, to my garage, I got the most satisfaction providing that answer than any other I've provided.
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Well put. I had my ERA at a pretty big show this weekend and an old fellow had been looking under my car's rear. He then came up and said "I see you have an independent rear, looks like a Jag, but you don't have inboard brakes. How'd you do that?" I told him that was the best question anyone had asked me at a car show and then spent the next 20 minutes talking with him. 
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06-02-2008, 01:01 PM
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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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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chaplain
I think Mrmustang alluded to an important issue, and I apologize if I've misinterpreted his point.....if you bought the car to fulfill anybody elses dream but your own, then you may have made a poor choice regardless of the cars origin.
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Thank you, finally, someone gets it.
Bill S.
PS: As for it being real, if you can touch it, then yes, it's real 
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06-02-2008, 01:06 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chaplain
I think Mrmustang alluded to an important issue, and I apologize if I've misinterpreted his point.....if you bought the car to fulfill anybody elses dream but your own, then you may have made a poor choice regardless of the cars origin.
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Which reminds me of the story of the young man on his wedding night. After he had removed his clothes, his blushing bride took one look at his diminutive member and said "And just who do you think you're going to please with that?" To which the young groom smiled and replied, " Me."
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06-02-2008, 01:08 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Palm Coast,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Shelby American CSX 4241 - authentically built
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chaplain
I think Mrmustang alluded to an important issue, and I apologize if I've misinterpreted his point.....if you bought the car to fulfill anybody elses dream but your own, then you may have made a poor choice regardless of the cars origin.
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If that is the case, then don't you think that those people have a right to their dream, and a right to not have it smeared and tainted all over the internet by people who don't share that dream?
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Sal Mennella
CSX 4241, KMP 357 - sold and missed, CSX 4819 - cancelled, FFR 5132 - sold
See my car at CSXinfo.net here >> CSX 4241
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06-02-2008, 01:15 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham 427 (KMP 266); CAV GT40
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freedom of speech protects both the dreamer and the non dreamer, so the dreamer has the right to his dream and anyone that wants to critique or criticize that dream has that right also. Assholes are equally protected in this country
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06-02-2008, 01:28 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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Originally Posted by ENTDOC
Assholes are equally protected in this country
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Dang, nothing like a "cheery bedside manner..." 
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06-02-2008, 01:36 PM
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it was a tongue in cheek comment
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06-02-2008, 02:00 PM
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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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Quote:
Originally Posted by ENTDOC
it was a tongue in cheek comment
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yes, but who's tongue in who's cheek 
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06-02-2008, 02:59 PM
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Location: Darnestown,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA 289FIA, 289 stroked to 331, 392 HP
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ENTDOC
it was a tongue in cheek comment
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But all too true!
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06-02-2008, 03:06 PM
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Finally got to the end of this. Boy am I glad that I got a real original ERA 289 Roadster!  Who cares what anybodyelse thinks, just drive the darned thing!
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06-02-2008, 01:40 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Everett-Morrison, 429CI
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Power Surge
If that is the case, then don't you think that those people have a right to their dream, and a right to not have it smeared and tainted all over the internet by people who don't share that dream?
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Huh, could you repeat that in English please.
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06-02-2008, 01:51 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Shelby American CSX 4241 - authentically built
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chaplain
Huh, could you repeat that in English please.
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Translation:
It was pointed out that you should buy a car to fullfill your dream, not someone else's.
My repsonse was that those who have done just that, should have the right to not have their dreams trashed by those who don't share that dream.
Of course, as pointed out after THAT, freedom of speech gives people the right to trash other people's dreams.
Then add Club Cobra to the mix, and you've got a place were any CSX related thread can be turned into the same old arguement by the same old non-CSX owners with nothing better to do. But don't you dare try doing that to a Kirkham owner, or an ERA owner, or any other brand for that matter.
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Sal Mennella
CSX 4241, KMP 357 - sold and missed, CSX 4819 - cancelled, FFR 5132 - sold
See my car at CSXinfo.net here >> CSX 4241
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06-02-2008, 02:02 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Pottstown (East Coventry),
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Cobra Make, Engine: Don't think I'll be getting a Cobra for a long time... Do have '94 RX-7 R2.
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Originally Posted by Power Surge
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Then add Club Cobra to the mix, and you've got a place were any CSX related thread can be turned into the same old arguement by the same old non-CSX owners with nothing better to do. But don't you dare try doing that to a Kirkham owner, or an ERA owner, or any other brand for that matter.
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Strange, when Evan does not reply on a csx related thread, the people who normally bash him are not here to chime in. 
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06-02-2008, 02:06 PM
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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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Quote:
Originally Posted by Power Surge
Translation:
It was pointed out that you should buy a car to fullfill your dream, not someone else's.
My repsonse was that those who have done just that, should have the right to not have their dreams trashed by those who don't share that dream.
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Nobody is out to trash anyone else's dream. It's when reality gets in the way that the dream vanishes. There are those out there that live in their own dream world, some of those people attempt to turn that dream into everyone else's dream and this is what the trouble begins. As stated above, no matter what you have, aluminum, plastic, carbon fiber, brass, or whatever else they have made these cars out of, if it was not originally built in the 60's, then it is not an original 60's Cobra. That really is the bottom line, one that even you agree with I believe......
Bill S.
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06-02-2008, 02:16 PM
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I kind of know what Sal is saying, even though I agree that there has been no trashing of CSX on this thread. I have a continuation GT40 GT2103 and it is legally a real GT40 licensed by Safir to support that. It does draw plenty of ' it is not an original GT40 so it is no more real than my XYZ GT40 ( I have an XYZ GT40 also) and that is ok that it tears them up so badly that they must constantly worry about it, I kind of like it that way. I figure I am damn lucky to have the ability to have one and if others do not like the nomenclature, screw em.
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06-02-2008, 02:46 PM
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06-02-2008, 03:40 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: CSX4000, 427
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ENTDOC
I I have a continuation GT40 GT2103 and it is legally a real GT40 licensed by Safir to support that. It does draw plenty of ' it is not an original GT40 so it is no more real than my XYZ GT40 ( I have an XYZ GT40 also) and that is ok that it tears them up so badly that they must constantly worry about it, I kind of like it that way. I figure I am damn lucky to have the ability to have one and if others do not like the nomenclature, screw em.
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Close analogy to CSX4000 cars, and it would be the same if Ford were the ones selling the "new" component GT40's, not Superformance. Shelby is still selling cobra's.
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