Finally got my Cobra after 25 years of lusting

[Tim7139]

That is a great car with a beautiful color combo.
I have a tip for you, a very serious tip. This is very similar to my own experience in acquiring mine but there is one critical thing you must do. This is a high performance car and even with lots of experience you may or may not have you must assume nothing.
By this I mean before you really get out there and enjoy it, repeat BEFORE, get it up on stands with the wheels off and from one end to the other, go through all the running gear, suspension, brakes, axles, front, back, middle, and made damned sure everything is tightened to spec and secure. Go through everything and paint mark everything for reference.
This will insure no unexpected surprises, some of which can destroy your investment and yourself.
Remember these are hand built cars, that bounce, vibrate, and may still be subject to human error.
It's cheap insurance and a great way to get to know it in detail.

[Bernica]

Just a beautiful car and congratulations. Welcome aboard!
I agree with all comments above as far as checking it underneath, tires and taking it easy to learn the car.
For tires, AVON all the way!

[Silversmith]

Awesome ride!!! Plenty of good advice listed above. Once you feel you have done a proper overall check of your ride and you feel a little bolder. You might consider taking your ride to a very large parking space & get a feel for the break loose points on your car. As in take off's, stopping, cornering, etc. It will be a good way to use up those ice skates you now have on your ride. Yes, new rubber will handle different than burning up the bfg's. But you will get a real feel of what you have before the new rubber goes on! Good luck and !

WELCOME TO THE ADDICTION THERE IS NO CURE!!!

[desgros@vtlink.]

Simply outstanding! I am sure it was well worth the wait.

Sometimes the best things in life come later.

John

ERA #3010 289 Slabside

[Luke427]

Congratulations, that's a gorgeous car indeed!!
I'm so happy not to have real Winter here in California. That must be a long waiting period... I'd consider hibernation

[lockworksokc]

Beautiful car. That is an impressive color.

[BAsque1]

Very nice ride, I must agree with Ron, you might want to try M/Ts
Lou

[oldcarguy]

Originally Posted by BAsque1

Very nice ride, I must agree with Ron, you might want to try M/Ts
Lou

I've been reading about the M/Ts and might go that route.

[buddyg]

Congrats and welcome to the SPF club. You should definitely get new tires I have the Mickey ST and am very happy with them. I have also done the RT Shock tower upgrade and a slew of his other mods. Sway bars, ball joints, shocks, springs. Makes a huge difference and his shocks have a ton of adjustments.

[oldcarguy]

Originally Posted by buddyg

Congrats and welcome to the SPF club. You should definitely get new tires I have the Mickey ST and am very happy with them. I have also done the RT Shock tower upgrade and a slew of his other mods. Sway bars, ball joints, shocks, springs. Makes a huge difference and his shocks have a ton of adjustments.

Please enlighten me on what the RT shock tower upgrade is. Am I correct in my assumption there is no adjustment on the factory rear shocks?

[Tim7139]

The rear shocks mount to a bracket bolted to the frame and can be a source of failure largely do to the bolts. The upgrade uses a far sturdier bracket with more/better hardwear.
It is fairly inexpensive and a straight forward replacement, did mine last summer,couple hours with handtools. At the same time I used it as an oppurtunity to bolt shoulder harness' into the frame since the locations are a couple inches from the new mounts.
You probably would benefit from membership in the SPF owners group which is cheap and has lots of technical articles as well as all the upgrade data with how to stuff apleanty.http://performanceunlimited.com/cobr...ion/img159.jpg

[drumgene]

Very nice ride. Color is close to mine. Is it Matador red?

[oldcarguy]

Originally Posted by drumgene

Very nice ride. Color is close to mine. Is it Matador red?

The paint is called sunset red.

[Ron61]

If you can, make a video of some of your drives and post it so we can all see you enjoying that beautiful Cobra.

Ron

[oldcarguy]

Originally Posted by Ron61

If you can, make a video of some of your drives and post it so we can all see you enjoying that beautiful Cobra.

Ron

We hit a record high of 64 degrees yesterday in Iowa so I pulled out the Cobra and gave my daughter a ride. She took a short video with her phone.

I'll post the video if I can figure out how to do it.

[Ron61]

That would be great and the weather everywhere is weird it seems. We go from the 80s to the 30 overnight and it is really hard for an old fart like me to adjust to. I may try to get one of my cars out this week and make a short run and video it if I can go where I would like to.

Ron

[SteveCarey]

Man that is one beautiful Cobra! Enjoy the wind sound and smell of American Muscle:-)

[AZ Cobra Mike]

What a beautiful Cobra. I pick up mine tomorrow. I feel like a little kid at Christmas. I'm absolutely giddy.

[Bernica]

Originally Posted by AZ Cobra Mike

What a beautiful Cobra. I pick up mine tomorrow. I feel like a little kid at Christmas. I'm absolutely giddy.

Congrats! Giddy is good, but think slow, slow, slow to start with. I mean, even brush your teeth in the morning slow!