Cobra Completion Fundraiser for 767Jockey

[CobraEd]

Ed, not clear on the need for the trailer if the car is not there. Is it for you to go get the car or for storage at your place?

Thanks
Ed


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[Double Venom]

OK,

I sold my enclosed goose neck a few years ago-now traileress. Rick has picked up Dougs Cobra from the East Coast and is bringing it to Columbus, Oh. where I have arranged to rent an enclosed trailer. Rick and I are going to unload/re-load the Cobra into my rented trailer. From there I will bring it to Pentwater and Back* when completed. (*Where ever back is?)

(I'm hoping a friend of mine, who is looking for an enclosed trailer for his Cobra will buy this one so there wont be a re-rental fee!)

[CobraEd]

I thought Rick was taking it directly to you. Well, . . . good luck. Be careful with the transfer


Ed

[RICK LAKE]

Rick's truck snapped the P/S pump shaft and was left on the side of the road in PA. Was able to get home without steering or brakes on the truck. The only nice thing about driving at 2:00a.m. to 4:00 a.m. in the morning, no traffic. EVO valve was junked when the pump shaft snapped and killed the valve. I tryed to fix it on the side of the road but had no pressure to the systems when done. I carryed a spare p/s pump, alt, water pump, complete distributor, and gaskets for the intake. If anything else goes, I am towing it home.
Anyway I am going to meet Ed on the 15 of Nov in Columbus and hope there are no other problems and that Ed doesn't have a foot of snow to remove from his house and garage. Thats about all for now. Talked to Doug the other night. Cemo is kicking his butt, but is done for now and is hoping to start feeling better soon. He thanked me about 10 times again. I think my ear is starting to fall off. Anyway He hopes to have a chance and MAYBE be flying again in the spring, weather it be in the skys or on the ground in the cobra. It's something he is looking forward too. Rick L.

[767Jockey]

I've told Rick, DV and Ed that this is just incredible that the ball is rolling on this project. I can't tell you all what a lift this has given me on days and weeks where I just feel terrible from the treatment, I just think for an hour at a time about the car, what I'd like to do with it, little tweaks to make, wondering how original I can make it look without causing DV extra work or killing the budget.

Ed, are you up to doing a build thread so all the guys can see whats happing with the car? (and me too !!!!!)

I think all the major pieces have been assembled except for the heads. I keep looking for used Edelbrock heads to try to fit into the budget, but the used ones I've seen are usually only $100 or so less than new ones. I'll keep waiting until something good pops up, and all I'm really gambling by waiting is the $100 discount for the used ones that I've seen. Worse comes to worse I have to buy new ones from somewhere. I wrote to Ed (CobraEd) earlier that when I was much younger I had all kinds of contacts in speed shops and I even knew someone who worked at Edelbrock "back in the day". He's long gone now, but what a plus it would be if I still knew him!

Oh well, one of the many bad parts of getting old. I may be the only one on this forum that's actually looking forward to the chance of continuing to get old! That would mean that I beat this darned disease, I hope one day to be a crotchety old man telling my grandkids about this neat blue Cobra that an amazing group of guys finished building for me. Thanks to all of you, I am really looking forward to the 15th. You guys are awesome, each and every one of you.

[Double Venom]

Doug,

Not to worry about making too much work for me! Simply put "you can't!". The one thing I do worry about is you not saying anything trying to save work! Money, that's up to you but leave the fun / details to me and the crew.

And, by the way its SOP around here for me to take more photo's and descriptions of assembly procedures than the History Channel would use. I usually go way past the norm, in fact I think I bore some guys with the many details!

You can download what information/pictures I post or I can burn everything at the end putting it on a disc for those grand kids you can bore to tears with someday!

[Double Venom]

WOW!
I think.."Motorhead" just posted a link to some re-done heads while I was posting the above. Don't know, but certainly looks like a phone call may be in order?

[767Jockey]

Originally Posted by Double Venom

Doug,

Not to worry about making too much work for me! Simply put "you can't!". The one thing I do worry about is you not saying anything trying to save work! Money, that's up to you but leave the fun / details to me and the crew.

Ed, we all have our hot buttons on these cars, and for me it's trying to make it look as original as possible. Of course with the Contemporary, there are some limitations, specifically in the suspension as it has Jag front and rear. Not much we can do about that. I bought the Fluidyne radiator, and Nick made some custom supports so that the radiator can be laid back at the "proper" angle and have aluminum baffling as original around the sides and top and bottom of the radiator and the oil cooler as well. I believe I have all the original Lucas type switches for the instrument panel to go with the correct type Smiths gauges, and of course I would like to put all the gauges, switches and indicator lights in the proper positions. I believe that I have all that stuff, it's just a matter of getting it all hooked up. The wiring harness comes with a GM type light switch, I have a Lucas toggle to use for the lights as original, I am not sure how to wire that, hopefully you do! I know I need to put a relay on the light circuit, I have to buy that but they're fairly inexpensive. When that time comes I'll order it from Ron Francis and have it drop shipped to your place. I was hoping to put an aluminum trunk kit in the car but that'll have to wait, it's way too much work to get into now. The rest is just as close to original as we can get it working of course within the limitations of the fact that it's a Contemporary and not a Kirkham!

Originally Posted by Double Venom

And, by the way its SOP around here for me to take more photo's and descriptions of assembly procedures than the History Channel would use. I usually go way past the norm, in fact I think I bore some guys with the many details!

I remember what you did with Cap't Eddies build, I read that one every day! Looking forward to a build thread like that on most days would be awesome. As you can see by the amount I'm writing today, for once I feel pretty good. On the all too often occasions when I don't feel nearly as good, having something like that to look forward to seeing would be great. Hopefully the wonderful guys who have contributed to this effort, and all the guys in general, would enjoy that too. For this and so much more, thanks, Ed!

Originally Posted by Double Venom

You can download what information/pictures I post or I can burn everything at the end putting it on a disc for those grand kids you can bore to tears with someday!

I'll do both. !!!!!!
Thanks a million, Ed!

[767Jockey]

Originally Posted by RICK LAKE

Rick's truck snapped the P/S pump shaft and was left on the side of the road in PA. Was able to get home without steering or brakes on the truck. The only nice thing about driving at 2:00a.m. to 4:00 a.m. in the morning, no traffic. EVO valve was junked when the pump shaft snapped and killed the valve. I tryed to fix it on the side of the road but had no pressure to the systems when done. I carryed a spare p/s pump, alt, water pump, complete distributor, and gaskets for the intake. If anything else goes, I am towing it home.
Anyway I am going to meet Ed on the 15 of Nov in Columbus and hope there are no other problems and that Ed doesn't have a foot of snow to remove from his house and garage. Thats about all for now. Talked to Doug the other night. Cemo is kicking his butt, but is done for now and is hoping to start feeling better soon. He thanked me about 10 times again. I think my ear is starting to fall off. Anyway He hopes to have a chance and MAYBE be flying again in the spring, weather it be in the skys or on the ground in the cobra. It's something he is looking forward too. Rick L.

Guys,
Can you believe what Rick is doing to get this project moving along? He's all the way in NJ, yet he's got up in the wee hours of the morning, drove all the way through NJ, got a good way into PA, had the truck break and muscled a broken truck all the way back to NJ. Now on the 15th of November he's planning to do it all over again, all out of an incredible sense of decency and generosity. Guys, Rick's just an amazing guy, and like DV and Doug and Ed and so many countless others I can never thank him enough. I'm still just bowled over by what they and all off you have done and are doing. I can't tell you how on the very worst of days going through this what you guys are doing keeps me going. Thank you, thank you, a million thank yous to all of you!
Doug

[gsharapa]

With fall ending and the winter months just head for you guys in the upper east and across the midwest, I would think there would be a bunch of idle trailers just sitting where a few of you could drive a couple 100 miles and get his car over to Ed. Spending that much of his fund to transport the car could go a long way in finishing it..... Just a thought!