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Originally Posted by LMH
Hey guys,
Ran across these while poking around on the internet. Keep in mind, this is from CSX2384 but some good info just the same. Dan, sounds like you are familiar with this car.
Larry
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I am familiar with it. It is the highest original content (parts and finishes - it was completed with and sent out the factory door with) late Cobra that I am aware of. It isn't 100% complete as the day finished (tires long gone for example) but it is incredibly preserved and intact. It stayed in carefully thought out purposeful and well executed dry storage by the original owner for decades. It was shown in a preservation class at Pebble Beach this past summer.
Quite a few Cobras have come out of decades of hiding. Forget the original content part for a moment. There is a tremendous difference in what happens to materials (paint, platings, mechanical seals, leather, rubber, etcetera) between parking a car in a detached shed with maybe a dirt or gravel floor and left for decades perhaps even to become a shelf for things leaning against it on sitting on top of it and making a plan to preserve a car and protecting it in a clean dry location and tending it occasionally.
Dan