Slab side in a parking lot

[Dwight]

Saturday while attending the All Ford Car Show sponsored by The Rocket City Mustang Club I saw a slab side Cobra sitting in the parking lot next to the show. Four or five years ago while I was attending the same show I saw a black Cobra with a lot of miles on it, sitting about the same place, I did not have my camera with me that time. But this time I did, so I took 30 pictures of CSX 2310. I don't think this is the same Cobra that I saw a few years back, but both are owned by the same guy. Dan has two CSX Cobras. I'll try to post two picture here.
They are posted in the North Alabama Cobra Club gallery.

enjoy

Dwight

[1985 CCX]

Dwight

Great pics, can you forward to me via email? Would love to add to the collection...

[Dwight]

do you want all 30 pictures?

Dwight algunruner@aol.com

[Steve Cassani]

Swanny80,

Sent you an e-mail before Dwight posted these pics. They capture my thoughts on a future KMP very well...

[Dwight]

email me and I zip file you my pics.

Dwight

[Dwight]

I added four pictures of Dan Cobra in my gallery (Social groups, North Alabama Cobra Club, Dwight)

http://clubcobra.com/forums/album.php?albumid=259


Dwight

[Dan Case]

Originally Posted by Dwight

CSX 2310. I don't think this is the same Cobra that I saw a few years back…
Dwight

Same beat up old car, close to the same place.
Yesterday was perfect for a roadster ride, looked at some cars old (really liked the 1966 Mustang that was silver with red interior and the original owner September 1964 Mustang) and new, talked to people from decades ago, got lunch at Sonic in a roadster, and then drove some more……….

Dan

[Dwight]

Dan, thanks for bring your Cobra to the show. We enjoyed looking at it.


Dwight

[Tommy]

"Dan Case
1964 Cobra owner since 1983, Cobra crazy since I saw my first one in the mid 1960s in Huntsville, AL. "

I, too, saw my first Cobra in Huntsville in the mid 1960s. I worked at Redstone Arsenal and drove to work through what must have been the SE gate every morning. About once a week, I'd hear the siren call of side pipes and look around to see a Cobra cruising to work in the same clump of traffic. After I saw it the first time, I looked for it every morning. ... Great memories.

[Dan Case]

Originally Posted by Tommy

"Dan Case
1964 Cobra owner since 1983, Cobra crazy since I saw my first one in the mid 1960s in Huntsville, AL. "

I, too, saw my first Cobra in Huntsville in the mid 1960s. I worked at Redstone Arsenal and drove to work through what must have been the SE gate every morning. About once a week, I'd hear the siren call of side pipes and look around to see a Cobra cruising to work in the same clump of traffic. After I saw it the first time, I looked for it every morning. ... Great memories.

Dark blue? If so, it might have been Tom Odom's home grown racer. He sold the Cobra and bought a Can-Am car that he drove out on the base. At one point there was at least eleven (11) Cobras and a three (3) 427 Cobras and a GT40MKI in Huntsville at the same time before 1972. There was a GT40MKII in Decatur until about 1983. CSX2144 was in sight of my house and Tom’s was over the hill. I wanted to buy Tom’s in the 1970s but I had just bought a Boss 429 and was broke at the time. It is said that Tommy Andrews took a death car wrecked Cobra to salvage yard and watched it get cut into pieces. They say the engine went to a late model stock car for Huntsville Speedway, the transmission to a hot rod, I saw the intake manifold said to have come from it, and I had a steering wheel in the 1970s believed to be from it.

[Dwight]

Dan

I sold a few guns to buy my Cobra kit. I sold one to Bill Collins in Huntsville. He ask me why I was selling the gun and I told him I was going to buy a kit. He told me he had bought a real Cobra for $5200 and sold it for $15,000 a few years later. He thought he had made a lot of money till he found out it was worth $30,000.
I don't remember if he told me anything about the car. Do you know him?
He still lives in Huntsvile.


I'll contact him and get the details of the car.


Dwight

[Dan Case]

Dwight, that name doesn't ring any bells. A man that had a shop in downtown Huntsville told me, right after I had missed them both, he bought two Cobras in sorry cosmetic condition of the back row of a used car lot across from the Hick Building, cleaned them up some and sold them for $500 profit and he actually felt bad about making that much on a couple of used cars until Cobras hit $20,000 in Hemmings.....................


I heard of one car off a used car lot in Huntsville with about an inch of plastic filler all over it no one wanted to buy.


I have been playing tag with an ex-427 Cobra owner in Hunstville for decades and my wife talked with him at the fall Woody Anderson event but didn't get his contact information. Same event a man told us about the Cobra he had that he street raced in Huntsville but costs to keep it up and insurance made him decide to sell....he said in hind sight selling was a bad idea.


Those were the days, Shelby Mustangs out of the paper for $1,500 and Cobras about double that. My dad didn't see any use in such cars......



Talking to early owners pays off sometimes. One ex-owner in Huntsville let me get all his left overs except the pictures and movies of him racing his Cobra.

[Dwight]

I received this email from Bill, a guy I sold a M-16 so I could buy a Cobra kit.
I had to sell four machine guns to start with my build.
The four machine gun in today market are worth about $75,000.

Dwight

Still got the M16, wish I had the Cobra but it would only run on 106 Octane 
gas and it was getting very rare and expensive.  I had an AC Bristol Cobra 
that I got because of a wreck (I got hit by a Dr's wife and because she was 
drunk and cause the Dr. didn't want the claim to go to court, he settled by 
buying me a new car).  I bought the car at Bill McNatt Ford in Iuka MS and 
paid $3650 off the showroom floor, total cost out the door.  I drove the car 
until I got married and gas went through the roof, sold it for $5800 to the 
first offer I got - got many offers after it was already gone (I sold to 
soon).

It was wicked fast, had monster torque and would eat any tire I put on it. 
It would run only on high octane gas cause when I rebuilt the motor I put 
Jahns 11.5 to 1 popups in with a Crane 297/523 cam, 80" radiused anti-pump 
up lifters, an offenhauser dual port channel ram, 1150 double pumper, 
melling 25 over oil pump, motion industries did the crank and top end, and 
the heads were by Gap and Rousch. Mallory Dual point distributor, Holley 
headers, ported and polished.  I had as much in the engine as I sold the car 
for - wish I had kept it but I did not.

It was repainted in Black Jade and gold (Black Jade was a very dark green 
that looked black at night.  Glod was triple stripe around wheel well across 
trunk and up to a stinger point on the hood - it looked pretty nice.  18 
coats on the green and 9 coats on the gold.

Now I am just gonna cry,

BillC