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OG, thanks for the photos. The frame on you car has a notch cut on the front right that mine does not. The back of the frame under the trunk is not capped on yours where it is on mine. I could not tell about the rear wheel flares from your pictures. See how the flare on the second photo in my gallery comes out from the body rather than “V”-ing into the body like most other 427 Cobras? Also there was not room for the fuel pump between the engine and the frame on my car. Steve said that it should fit and that it did on his but I could never make it work. Consequently have gone through three electric fuel pumps. The door tops on yours looks identical to the way they came on mine. The difference in the front fender heights, left higher than right is the same and the asymmetrical oval air intakes are the same. The left side is a little wider than the right. The inner fender panels look the same. Your builder had to cut them out a little too. Only the exposed part of the body was finished and was in the same color of primer. All the inner panels and cockpit surfaces were just exposed fiberglass. Even the underlying brown base primer which was exposed where you were working on the right door is the same. You can see it in some of my pictures. The rear of the body stood up higher on mine with the Mustang II springs like it does yours. I put spacers between the springs and the axel to make it more level.
It was interesting to see how the builder of your car used a little different solutions to the same problems I ran into like the side vents. In the brochure no side vents are shown. The foot box was a little more forward and the builder of yours moved the vents forward where I cut notches in the inside of the foot boxes. I think he even used the same emergency brake system and cut out and welded the same cable mounts. But I mounted it on the side of the tunnel rather than the top. I have never been pleased with the way mine works. The builder welded braces from the door hinge plates to reach the windshield posts. I fixed brackets from the top. His was a much cleaner approach.
All in all, it looks like both cars were made from the same frame jigs and body molds and constructed in the same way with similar materials. If yours isn’t a Rowen, then whoever built it did it from the jigs and molds and plans as the Rowan company did. The body and frames are almost identical.
Yes, RustyBob, another mystery solved. Ain’t Club Cobra a great forum?
OG, thanks for starting this thread.
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