01-21-2016, 05:28 PM
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Senile Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Buffalo, NY USA,
NY
Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance
Posts: 4,575
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank Messina
When I got out of the Army in February 1967 there was a Ford dealer on Transit Road in Buffalo that had a white 427 Cobra parked out front with a $7495 sign in the window.
Frank
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Transit Road dealer was Al Maroone Ford (now in Florida and part of Autonation) and they never had a 427.
Buffalo was a tough sell for Shelby. Ford first sent a 260/289 Cobra to Kenmore Motors on Delaware Ave in Kenmore, at that time the biggest Ford dealer around. They held it for a short tie and passed on the product. Ford then sent two 289s to Al Maroone Ford (a red car and a white car) to test the waters. The white car was given to Cookie Gilchrest the Buffalo Bills star in hopes he would purchase it. Cookie rode it hard and returned it as it really didn't fit an NFL player well and it didn't even have roll-up windows!
Eventually Frontier Ford took the franchise and Jerry Hamam worked as the "Hi Performance manager" selling the Shelby products. he eventually became the Datsun dealer in Niagara Falls and I have receipts for work they did on CSX3327.
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