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12-31-2008, 10:01 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Wisconsin Rapids,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF 1421 351W
Posts: 129
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Mark Gerrish had a fab shop in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. If memory serves me correctly he made just a handful of Cobras, back in the mid-to-late '80s. I think he has since relocated to the Twin Cities area where he still plies his craftsmanship customizing high dollar European cars, limos. A true artist with metal, he can create anything you want, and to standards that exceed the originals!
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12-31-2008, 11:08 AM
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Senile Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Buffalo, NY USA,
NY
Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance
Posts: 4,566
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Holden
Jay Leno was at the SAAC convention in 1986 (as I recall) in Dearborn, MI with his replica. The car was built out in Wisc. (again, as I recall) in the early-mid 80's to essentially original spec. At the convention, he was just "one of the guys..." doing burn outs and shooting bottle rockets at Chevy's on the road next to the convention hotel. ...and then the police came.
Jim
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Remember that event well...a local guy from Rochester was the bottle rocket instigator. And the police were perhaps also responding to the Burnout/drag race event that had started up on Michigan Drive with the shutdown lane being the entry to the Fairlane Center. A good time was had by all until it got a little out of hand and the gendarmes were forced to "shut it down".
Actually Jay did not have his car at Dearborn that year, Mark was not done with it yet but he did drive Mark's car around. For some years after that event when Jay came to Buffalo he would call and leave tickets/backstage passes for us to visit. A real car/goodguy who hit the bigtime.
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12-31-2008, 12:33 PM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Fresno,
CA
Cobra Make, Engine: KMP 184/482ci Shelby
Posts: 14,448
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Quote:
Originally Posted by John Pierce
Jay's Cobra Is Beautiful and Correct !!!
The 427 SC Cobra is still today one of the most exciting cars to drive and my personal favorite !!! The car attracts a lot of attention every where you go !!! That sound is unmistakable !!!
JohnHollywoodPierce, ExoticCarGuys.com !!!
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Thanks! 
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12-31-2008, 02:04 PM
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Dunstable, Bedfordshire,
UK
Cobra Make, Engine: Dreaming of a 427 Competition car...
Posts: 128
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Awesome video!  Thank you for posting it!
Paul
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12-31-2008, 04:51 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Yorba Linda,
CA
Cobra Make, Engine: SPF w/392CI stroker
Posts: 3,293
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Jay has the ultimate garage with the best set of toys. He wins.  |
12-31-2008, 09:15 PM
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Senior ClubCobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Northern,
Ca
Cobra Make, Engine: LA Exotics
Posts: 1,038
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Minimum of 3 exclamation points after each sentence please!!!
Thanks JP!!! My writing is so much more interesting now!!!
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12-31-2008, 09:43 PM
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Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 1,330
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^^^ Lol !!!
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01-01-2009, 12:56 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: folsom,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF1038--sold
Posts: 271
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awesome motor in a great car.
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01-05-2009, 11:13 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: SoCal,
CA
Cobra Make, Engine: CSX #4xxx with CSX 482; David Kee Toploader
Posts: 3,574
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RodKnock
I want a SOHC engine!
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Try these guys. They seem to always be involved in SOHC's, both in cars and for sale stand-alone. They are on Ebay all the time.
http://www.autohauslosgatos.com/
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01-05-2009, 11:26 AM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Cobra Make, Engine: KMP 539, a Ton of Aluminum
Posts: 9,592
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I want one, but I would speculate that the SOHC engine they have on eBay will sell for the price of two new all-aluminum 482's. Way too much money for me. Thank you for the "heads up."
Last edited by RodKnock; 01-05-2009 at 11:27 AM..
Reason: Added a thank you.
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01-05-2009, 12:55 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: SoCal,
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Cobra Make, Engine: CSX #4xxx with CSX 482; David Kee Toploader
Posts: 3,574
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Expect to pay in the $30-40k range, the price of a decent new car....
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01-05-2009, 05:07 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Cobra Make, Engine: KMP 539, a Ton of Aluminum
Posts: 9,592
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01-05-2009, 05:38 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Yorba Linda,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF w/392CI stroker
Posts: 3,293
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For $60K I'll figure out how to adapt SOHC valve covers to the existing heads and have fake plug wires running into them. The Kirkhams can make anything...they'd get the job. |
01-05-2009, 06:54 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Avon,
NY
Cobra Make, Engine: 1969 Mustang Fastback Pro-Street, constantly changing ongoing project!
Posts: 746
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$32,500 gets you a brand New one
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(Of The Troops & For The Troops)
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body; but rather a skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "WOW, WHAT A RIDE!"
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01-05-2009, 07:59 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Madison, AL,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Midstates in-work again
Posts: 73
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****, get a life, that car was outstanding, totally awsume, love the car and love those cams. Kinda like my girlfriend on a Friday night. 
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01-05-2009, 08:23 PM
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Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 1,330
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Quote:
Originally Posted by treblig
****, get a life, that car was outstanding, totally awsume, love the car and love those cams. Kinda like my girlfriend on a Friday night. |
We're talking about "awsume" with two legged girlfriends or four? |
01-05-2009, 09:15 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Madison, AL,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Midstates in-work again
Posts: 73
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Is there a difference?
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01-05-2009, 11:08 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: LAS VEGAS,
NV
Cobra Make, Engine: contemporary(2) one with 427 sohc and one with 427 center oiler
Posts: 491
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I have one in my contemporary.I recently pulled it out for a total restoration of the car. The sohc is original Ford but after Art Chrisman (engine builder) checked it over it was decided to use repo. parts. Robert Pond al. block,billet crank,Bill Coon's aluminum heads,Hilborn electronic stack injection.I am rebuilding the original myself for a steel 1932 full fendered 3 window coupe.
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01-06-2009, 10:08 AM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Cobra Make, Engine: KMP 539, a Ton of Aluminum
Posts: 9,592
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I'm sure it will never happen, but I would love to own an original SOHC. To me, they're the ultimate Ford engine. I may look into the reproduction SOHC route, but I'm very happy with my 482.
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01-06-2009, 10:57 AM
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Senior CC Premier Member
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: SoCal,
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Cobra Make, Engine: CSX #4xxx with CSX 482; David Kee Toploader
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I know a guy that had four of them, still in crates. Two were "S" series and two were "T" series. One ended up in a '61 Galaxie Starliner (my old car), and the other three are out there in a T-Bolt and two Cobras. The cam timing chain is the most fun; it can give you fits if you're not a seasoned Cammer guy.
Good luck with your search. They're out there. It's just the "want" vs "need" vs "can I afford it?"
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