Contemporary Chassis in Downingtown,PA
 

Someone started a thread on this car over on the saacforum, thought I would jump start one here was well so that everyone is up to speed before they go for a ride:

✔1966 Contemporary Cobra 427 s/c

I saw this car 6 weeks ago up close and in person, I spent 2.5 hours going over the car with the seller and explained in great detail what he has on his hands. The chassis is indeed a Contemporary unit with torsion bar front suspension, aged jag front and rear suspension. 390 (no cross bolting, could not get to casting numbers to verify 100%) block (427 MR heads (I believe), aftermarket dual four intake), toploader 4spd, Lakewood bellhousing, a nice set of Trigo/Halibrand knock offs with adapters, early Shell Valley body with a lot of the inner structure cut out (a true throw a way body more for garage art with what is actually left of it than anything else), uncoated contemporary rollbar, early Shell Valley windshield. Receipts for engine rebuild mention cracked block and no warranty. It is missing 50% of the parts needed to finish (correct Contemporary body included in that statement). I explained the differences in great detail, he took notes, but clearly choose to ignore all of it. He is looking for an inexperienced person to bail him out, I offered him $11,000 (afterwards my wife told me I was crazy to even offer him that much) for it as there is another Contemporary project car in California for $11-12,000 (listed here on club cobra) that you could combine the two and be into a nice car for under 30K (a decent big block Contemporary replica sells for $38,000-$48,000). Sadly, he was taken for a ride, is out of work, and is now getting pretty desperate to find someone else to take advantage of based on his latest craigslist advertisement.

Let the potential buyer beware.

Bill S.

PS: Pictures are an exaggeration of what the chassis looks like today, it is not clean, and will need to be torn apart, sand blasted, and rebuilt, all rubber bushings included in that statement.


PSS: Body is not useable due to the inner structure (75% of it) being cut out for reasons unknown. No inner trunk liner, no inner engine compartment liner, passenger footbox half missing, etc.

I couldn't find the California car you refer to on CC. Are you referring to the one I bought from Daniel G. about this time last year?

Here you go ;)

Contemporary kit as posted November 5th 2011 in the Club Cobra classified section and to the best of my knowledge still available today.


Bill S.

Thanks, I even commented on it. I didn't think it was determined to be an (original) Contemporary. I thought it was a car from Arizona too. Anyway thanks for the info.

I would like to take this time to straighten out a couple facts: The intake is not aftermarket, it is a polished Ford #C3AE-9425-k low riser 1963. The "cracked" block means it has a sleeve in #5 (stronger than original now) as for engine warranty, they note "no" stating reason is this beast was built with NOX in mind! All my paperwork shows engine as a 1963 427. The heads are marked- C3AE-8090D & C3AE-809CD / Block is marked- HP 34 CSAF-6015AB Can any of you please help me identify this engine if it is not a 63? Furthermore, I have told everyone that has called, that in order to build this car, they need to first start with sand blast and then powder coat the frame. The pictures I added of the underside hide nothing. I was trying to show how it needs to be redone. The body is missing the trunk and the front inner wheel wells. That's all, not 50-75%, end of the world decorate your garage ...Just fab front metal panels, (like original cars were) and box in the trunk same way so it looks like a metal car inside and out. Passenger foot box needs a flat panel to close it up. If I am wrong, let the village say so.

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