12-02-2004, 12:28 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Jasper, GA,
GA
Cobra Make, Engine: Owned CSX 3121 1969-1975. Went to the dark side and bought a 'Vette. May yet repent and be saved.
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No argument that the big displacement, late model Chevy motors that run those ten second time slips are expensive, but no more so than a strong Keith Craft FE. As for those 'Vettes being purpose built drag cars, absolutely not. I know because I have a twin of one of them, and other than drag tires, it is totally practical, runs fine on 93 octane gas, and even gets good mileage (high teens in a mix of highway and city driving). Even my wife and daughter drive it on occasion. My total investment, which includes around $4k in brake and suspension upgrades, is less than I would have in a Superformance or ERA Cobra with a good motor (OK, I admit that I bought the 'Vette used)
I will undoubtedly be back in a neo-Cobra some time in 2005, and I really, really want them to be the fastest things on the street. I still have sweaty dreams about CSX 3121. But now that the bar has been raised, the performance data of the current crop is a little disappointing.
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