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06-22-2013, 06:34 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2013
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Is that an Original?
Original as in a custom one off hand built - then yes, Original as a mid 60's Shelby race car - Then No.
M@
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06-23-2013, 08:04 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Sammamish,
WA
Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance #2743, Roush 427SR
Posts: 130
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I say "No, it's a replica. Originals are not driven to (wherever I am)."
Recently I also offered to let a young boy sit in the drivers seat and I too started the engine. His smile went from ear to ear and his dad took a picture and thanked me. As I was walking back to the table I was using, I received about 4 or five compliments, not for the car, but for making a young boy's day.
Doesn't get any better
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06-23-2013, 02:00 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Gilford,
NH
Cobra Make, Engine: FFR 302 carb
Posts: 8,121
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Hammer, keep that up. I have been doing that for the past 13 years. Love seeing the smile on the kids and grownups.
I once let a lady tourist from Germany sit in the car. You would have thought she went to heaven. I got the biggest hug of my life from her.
Fixed my sloppy typing.
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06-23-2013, 03:43 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Mesa,
AZ
Cobra Make, Engine: Contemporary Classic, 428 FE CCX 3069
Posts: 7,501
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Love those hugs from strange ladies.
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Dan in Arizona
CCX3209
"It's a great car and I love it, but it doesn't do 'SLOW' very well."
Last edited by Danr55; 06-25-2013 at 06:22 AM..
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06-23-2013, 07:43 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Chester,
VA
Cobra Make, Engine: West Coast Dreams
Posts: 192
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I know this guy who is relatively knowledgeable about cars, being a mechanic. However, not knowing anything about Cobras being from the Chevy corner of the world. He thought that an original Shelby Cobra had a Chevy 427 in it. He insisted that Carol Shelby used GM engines.... I just said "Oh really!" and nodded as if I had learned something.
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06-24-2013, 02:52 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Naracoorte,
SA
Cobra Make, Engine: CR Cobra 3169
Posts: 818
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There's always a fine line between a smart arse return comment and a clever one. I haven't finished mine yet, and I'm not sure I really want that much attention. I've loved the car all my life and I've tried not to annoy someone who has one. So what's been the most annoying questions you get asked? Or the silliest? This has been a great thread to know how to respond when I finish mine.
JD
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06-24-2013, 07:40 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Dallas,
tx
Cobra Make, Engine: FFR track car, SL-C track car
Posts: 1,262
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I always laugh and say "hell no, but thanks for asking".  |
06-24-2013, 03:12 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Scottsdale,
Az
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA FIA #2119
Posts: 310
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I used to be a kit now it's a car.
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06-24-2013, 03:44 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Scotts Valley,
CA
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA 289 FIA #2108
Posts: 1,882
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I still like my response on page 1 from 2007...
I pretty regularly invite people to hop in for a photo op. People are genuinely thrilled to be allowed that moment. Rare are the "genuine" idiots that jealousy drives their disdain for what I own.
DD
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"You're kidding, right?"
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06-25-2013, 06:11 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Gilford,
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Cobra Make, Engine: FFR 302 carb
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JayDee,
If you do not want that much attention, stop right now and sell it. These things are there own car show just sitting at a gas station.
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06-25-2013, 07:48 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Vail,
AZ
Cobra Make, Engine: FFR MkIII 302/345 Mass-Flo
Posts: 62
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The only way to not get any attention in these cars would be to drive into a Corvette gathering. 
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FFR6043 Delivered 04/29/07 Non-donor. Legally on the road 07/08/09. Finished 08/09/10
These cars are kinda like a lightweight, precision guided sledgehammer.
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06-25-2013, 10:53 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Rockland County,
NY
Cobra Make, Engine: West Coast Cobra/427
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What's a Corvette??? ;-)))))))))))))))
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 Basque1
"Cobra--Because life is too short to drive a boring car"
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06-25-2013, 10:57 AM
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Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: MARKSVILLE,LA.,,
Posts: 3,235
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mikiec
JayDee,
If you do not want that much attention, stop right now and sell it. These things are there own car show just sitting at a gas station.
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I second that emotion, it's all true,or you can only take your car out after dark,ride around a little while, never stopping for anything but a red light and then go home and hide it!!!!!!!!!!!
Otherwise someone,somewhere will see it and ask about it.......
David
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06-25-2013, 11:02 AM
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Location: MARKSVILLE,LA.,,
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Finallygotit
The only way to not get any attention in these cars would be to drive into a Corvette gathering. |
Not really, ever year the local Mustang club and Corvette club get together for a benefit car show, the Mustangs park on one side and the Vettes park on the other,facing each other.......it's a nice show with a lot of old high $$$$ cars.........
A few years back,there was a lot of folks around the row of mid to late 60's restored Vettes, then this guy drives up in a daily driver looking, well beat on, loud FFR and parks with the Stangs, before he could back up and shut off the engine, the crowd left the row of Vettes like they had the plaque and flocked to the FFR wanting to know just what the heck was that!!!!!!!
It was hilarious.........
David
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06-25-2013, 02:15 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Mesa,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Contemporary Classic, 428 FE CCX 3069
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"What's a Corvette??? ;-)))))))))))))))"
It's just like a Chevette only a bit larger.....
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Dan in Arizona
CCX3209
"It's a great car and I love it, but it doesn't do 'SLOW' very well."
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06-26-2013, 11:59 AM
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Webster,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Factory Five
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Don't beat up the Vette guy's
I was one for many years. Had a '66 Coupe w/ factory side pipes and a '59 Dual Quad car. They really are not that much different than us with our Cobra's, they drive a fairly light fiberglass cars that have big engines and are fast and loud. I bought my FFR Cobra complete about a month ago and last Sunday on a evening drive along the lake (Lake Ontario in Upstate NY) my wife commented that it reminded her of when I had my '59 Vette.
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06-27-2013, 09:02 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Wickenburg AZ- PHX, Cinci, Indy before,
AZ
Cobra Make, Engine: FFR Mk 3 408 530 - 585 T- mustang Dyno at B&R
Posts: 1,836
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"That a MG"? My uncle use to have one in the 50's.....pause......"yep"
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