Anyone use the Cobra as a daily driver???

Quick96 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-29-2002, 12:17 PM

I was wondering if anybody uses their Cobra as an daily driver? If you do, do you have a hardtop, or some kind of overhead protection from rain or whatever?

I am thinking about purchasing one but I will probably have to use it as a daily driver for a while, that is why I am curious.

Thanks

Gordon Levy · #2 (**permalink**) 01-29-2002, 12:24 PM

yes, The Cobra can be a daily driver. I do prefer the soft top over the hard top. This is because it can be removed at any time and stored in the trunk. I resently finished a car with A/C and heat making it an all weather car.

mikiec · #3 (**permalink**) 01-29-2002, 12:28 PM

Quick96,

I see you are in Phoenix. Where?

Gordon is correct you can do one as a daily driver. I agree use a soft-top.

I've had mine on the road for 1 year now with over 11,000 miles here in Sunny Phoenix. But call me crazy...no top, no a/c, no heater.

Mike

Quick96 · #4 (**permalink**) 01-29-2002, 12:44 PM

I live in North Phoenix. Tatum and Loop 101 you know right by the new Desert Marketplace.

I am currently looking through the Auto Trader looking for one but I see one's that look a little rough if you know what I am saying

But hopefully I will find one here in a few weeks that will catch my eye.

Gordon Levy · #5 (**permalink**) 01-29-2002, 12:59 PM

quick, i build Cobra's for living and would be happy about building one for you, just the way you want it. Please call me at 480-446-8442 if you are interested. gordon

mikiec · #6 (**permalink**) 01-29-2002, 01:04 PM

Quick96,

Two items....

Call Gordon and go by his shop.

Send me an email if you wish to be included with the gang known as Arizona Cobras....mikie@netvalue.net

mike

Jack21 · #7 (**permalink**) 01-29-2002, 04:33 PM

Daily driver here in Wash DC, except weather extremes. CR soft top & sidewindows offer decent rain & weather resistance, but have to duct tape hood scoop for hard rain. Good heater, and 20 degree days don't bother it, or me. Ice & snow, I leave it home. Could put all weather tires on it, but other idiots can't drive in ice & snow. Why chance it. Way back when my TR-4 was my only car, I drove it in ice & snow. Side window plastic needs to be treated gently below freezing or it will crack.

DC about as bad as Houston for humidity in summer. Next engineering exercise will be A/C for a truly all weather Cobra. If I lived in Phoenix, it wouldn't be optional.

Jason Lee Nye · #8 (**permalink**) 01-30-2002, 08:13 AM

Quick,

I drive mine to work everyday that it is sunny. Damn that rain TODAY!

Mike tell him about Tuesday nights and Saturday nights! Mike is our President of our local Cobra Club. Just don't get to close, he bites.

p.s. Gordon, has the hood hinges come in yet?

Quick96 · #9 (**permalink**) 01-30-2002, 10:20 AM

Gordon which kit do you build? I was hoping to find a big block cobra in the Auto trader with a 4 or 5 speed.

Doug Axelrod · #10 (**permalink**) 01-30-2002, 10:45 AM

Hal Copple is a self-designated "Daily Driver" of "The Great Stroker".

Apparently, he's referring to his car.

So, you might give him a ring on how-tos.

Gordon Levy · #11 (**permalink**) 01-30-2002, 10:46 AM

We build Factory Five Roadsters and daytona's as well as the RF GT-40.

Cobra Man Az · #12 (**permalink**) 01-30-2002, 11:30 AM

i'd be in the same boat as you. i'd have to be a daily driver. But hey that why we like'm right!!

Dwight · #13 (**permalink**) 01-30-2002, 04:57 PM

Do you get a lot of rain into the hood scoop? I have a 5.0 EFI and my buddies Cobra is carb'ed. We had a discussion about rain in the scoop and he does not drive his car far from the house, nor does he drive it in the rain! I will drive mine in the rain. So I want to know if the rain will flood the air filter? My car is ready for paint and I can still plug or fill the mouth on the scoop. Should I????

Jack21 · #14 (**permalink**) 01-30-2002, 06:25 PM

Don't seal the hood scoop. Use a rain shield. Right now, if it's raining hard, I put duct tape on the inside of the hood scoop.

What I plan to do though is make a rain shield out of aluminum or plastic that will fasten to the inside of the hood scoop with wing nuts. Put it in if its raining, leave it out its not. Need to keep rain out of the air cleaner, and off the distributor cap.