For Sale

[Merv and Sharon]

Many thanks Don, Modern, Murray, Geof and Leigh for the nice comments (Leigh I have some QA1: 10-300s still). It was a fair price I felt. One could hang one for 6 months and get a bit more. I figure that there are about 20 folk at any time in Australia looking for a Cobra, and with the disposable cash to buy in these straightened times. They aren't Mazdas, and the buyer must find what they want.

Tom, I have mentioned the rally in Cairns and also a few other Cobra owners up there. I will connect him with you Tom. He is an experienced person in many things mechanical and a Ford aficionado. He has a Ford (FPV) GT.

The car will go on the truck some time next week. That will be the sad time. Geof, the little Porsche is an early (68) SWB with matching numbers on the engine, gearbox and chassis and an original COA (Certificate of Authenticity). They are starting to get crazy prices, especially the S series in what is a world market for these cars. It is a 45 year old car, but is rust free (they say in old Porsches, that means you haven't found it yet) originally from inland California. I put some repro Recaro Sports seats in with the houndstooth upholstery that it was originally built with. It is Guards Red and goes really well. The build quality on the early 911's was excellent. I am going to strip the whole underbody however (horrible heat gun and scraper job) and prime it and then some body shutz. There are at least 5 good Porsche Forums that are very helpful and full of technical info. I also need to change a whole range of gaskets and the Fuchs wheels need to be stripped and the alloy polished (not chromed). The 'job list' is long, mostly correcting parts with OEM ones. The car has a complete tool kit (they now sell for over $3000 on eBay and the forums).

A couple of photos as requested. There is certainly another Cobra in my future and it will most probably be a car from Absolute Pace.