Original leaf-spring Cobras and "model years"

[1795]

Dan,

That is just an amazing amount of work and dedication that you have done in your lifetime, and we all benefit tremendously from it. If any university would ever offer a Doctor of Cobra degree, you certainly have completed your dissertation and would have it conferred! Until that time, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Cobra.

Jim

[Dan Case]

Originally Posted by 1795

Dan,

That is just an amazing amount of work and dedication that you have done in your lifetime, and we all benefit tremendously from it. If any university would ever offer a Doctor of Cobra degree, you certainly have completed your dissertation and would have it conferred! Until that time, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Cobra.

Jim

LOL…


I have been answering Cobra details inquiries for four decades now. Our family was in a local antique car club and the Antique Automobile Club of America, I started working on Model A Fords with my father circa 1960-61. The clubs were ‘car clubs’ for sure but friendships were super important. Active members helped each other with their old cars. If someone needed help pulling a frame back straight, it was done for free between friends.


I started trying to make my available funds equal the current value of a Cobra in the spring of 1968. (My pricing data chart starts in 1968; a chart I still maintain for fun.) By 1971 I was trying to figure out the versions of cars and which version I wanted to own. The two dollar curves crossed in 1983 and we obtained our black car. I continued the practice of helping where I could that started back circa 1960-61, this time with Cobra details. Over time lots of questions have been answered and recorded for use the next time the same or similar gets asked. Long ago I started a file of details of engines in new Cobras on a 3X5 index card. The main engine file is now a digital text document 133 pages in length in its 186 revision level. That is one file on a subject. There are several other files also related to engines covering details most might never think of. (Example: Continental Cars did this and Shelby American did this for one specific part requirement.) The fuel pumps slide show is 50 pages, stock carburetors slide show 115 pages, COBRA cast SAE 1030 steel safety bell housings 20 pages, and etcetera.


It has been not all one-way exchanges as many of the people I have assisted have helped us answer other questions I did not myself have access to. It is play for me.