08-17-2009, 07:16 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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Originally Posted by convincor
That's it. From now on the answer is YES!
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I also have gotten to the point when someone, again who really doesn't know what they're looking at, asks "Is that real?" I now answer "The engine is; just about everything else I had made for me." That answer has worked better than any other response yet. About half the time they follow up with "Even the body?" to which I answer, "Yes, I had that made for me in Connecticut." To most of the folks that's as good as saying "Yes, this is the car that beat Ferrari and it is 100% untouched over the last 40 years." The people that really know FEs, or who really know Cobra replicas, have been few and far between. Although at the last car show a guy came up to me who had actually met with Peter about building an ERA car for him -- I spent quite a while with him going over different points of the build, letting him sit in the car, even started it up for him. That has only happened once since I've owned the car. BTW, when I'm at a car show I put a cardboard placard on the windshield that identifies the car as an ERA, the engine as an original iron 428FE, and other stuff... but you can't expect people to actually read that.  |
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