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Dan,
Our wipers are supposed to park on the passenger's side (as original). If yours don't, there's something wrong in the setup, either within the wiper motor or the wheelbox installation. |
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Interesting - here is a thread on an original that shows parking on the pass side. http://www.clubcobra.com/forums/orig...rs-2011-a.html Maybe this other one is a negative image or something. |
This has come up again and again. The interesting question is why some of the very high end replicas are parking over to the driver's side. Foot pedals coming up from the bottom, slanting the radiator just right, yeah I can understand that they might be a bit of an engineering nuisance, but parking your wipers? C'mon, that should be pretty easy.:confused:
Edit: You can peruse some nice originals on Sundude's flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/3808920...7629081440216/ |
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Oh man, do you have to start that whole continuation is/is not original thing again? If so, just post links to all the other threads that have already exhausted that debate :rolleyes:
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wrong thread
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I guess the actual linage of the car was never established when this was posted.
http://www.clubcobra.com/forums/shel...-concours.html Looks like I mistakenly relied too much on my favorite photo and jumped to conclusions. But, you have to admit it's a georgeous view and car even if the wipers are reversed. But look at this one. The wipers park to the driver side on it and it's an original. 1966 Used Shelby Cobra 427 at Canepa Serving Scotts Valley, IID 6863033 Very strange. |
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Dan ... some pics of CSX 3114 that was owned by a friend of mine that I took . Wipers park on the passenger side . Just for giggles , a picture of one of it`s stablemates also .
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For some reason it didn`t upload this one .
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Maybe it will work this time
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Won`t upload for some reason , but CSX3114 parks the wipers on the passenger side .
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So why do so many nice, expensive replicas have it so wrong?:confused:
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Hi Dan,
Out of curiosity, I just paged through my book: "Shelby Cobra Fifty Years" by Colin Comer. There are dozens of photos in the book and here is what I observed regarding wipers. The book starts, of course, with the 289 cars and, although the vast majority park to the passenger side, there were a couple of examples where they parked to the driver's side. For the 427s, all the photos where wipers are visible indicate they park to the passenger side. I noted that there are a lot of photos of 427 street cars (over a dozen) - all parked to passenger side. Interestingly, when the story got to the continuation cars, all the photos of them show wipers parked to driver side. For the replicas pictured in the book (not many photos) I saw a Superformance with wipers parked to driver's side. Not relevant to your car, but interesting, was the Daytona Coupe. The first one made - CSX2287 - parked to passenger side but photos of subsequent cars showed them parked to the driver's side. |
CSX4xxx, Kirkham, and SPF all park to the driver's side. Now, I'm sure you're asking "Why, or why, would they do that?"
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Not all. There is one photo of a Kirkham in this book - Richard Messersmith's KMP0305 (actually two photos of this same car) and the wipers are parked to the passenger side. Also, in the gallery on Kirkham's website there are both 427 and 289 cars with wipers parked to passenger side, although most are parked to driver's side.
And, since you're just itching to tell us why this is, I'll bite. Why this is? |
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