[Jack21]

BCompy,

Airborne coatings? They did my headers & sidepipes a few years ago. Did a pretty good job. Gotta get my new glasspacks coated, once I decide which set to leave on the car, the 30"x 2 1/2", or 36" x 2 1/4". There's a shop down near me in Fredricksburg, VA that I might try on the mufflers. Should I not go back to Airborne Coatings???

Venting. If you can't vent here, where elce can you go? We all "Feel your pain".

Everybody that owns, or is trying to build a Cobra has the "F**k Me!" inscription on their forehead. A $50 part or service for a '66 Mustang will cost $500 for the exact same part for a '66 Cobra.

So don't tell them what kind of a car it's for, or just say it's for a street rod.

Never tell a guy (or a female) at a parts counter what kind of a car it's for if they insist on looking it up in a computer, or you will never get your part. Just this weekend I needed a set of spark plugs. TFS uses a different plug than any Ford so I ask for the plugs by part #. Doofus has to know what car it's for, and of course has no listing for the car in computer. Worse, I can see the plugs from where I'm standing. With the help of one of the managers, I got my plugs.

I had one of these little Snap Tite plastic Cobra models I'd carry around with me for instances when nothing less descriptive of what I was making/building would work. Came in handy at times (at the welding shop), and backfired at times (front end alignment shop). ( "Ooh, you gotta take that to a shop that does specialty cars, we don't do those here".)

And it's the little sh*t that always seems to take forever, and cost a fortune. Wasn't about to give up putting power steering in my car. Have a GM style pump & late Ford rack, both from AGR. Gotta hook 'em up. Spend $30 for the Chevy end hi side line, another $30 for the Ford side hi side line, and all I need are the ends. Then go to a fork lift truck hydraulics shop to have then ends mated with a short piece of line. Another $50. Then I need th low side return. Aaahhh, that's a special fitting, Dealer only part! Another $50, and again, all I need is the end, and cut off the rest. But, it's in and it works. Ought be a real Hoot if I try putting air conditioning in this thing, Ha, ha.

Getting the car painted was an ordeal I'd care not to repeat. Had the infamous Cobra builder "F**k Me" written on my forehead. Corvette body shop & I set a price. First the guy sits on the car for 2 months without doing anything. I show up with a flatbed to take the car away, and suddenly he gets started. We had agreed on a price, but into the job, he finds "Extras". Long story short, we hit budget and I picked the car up only sanded. The flatbed driver on the way home told me of a shop he uses, and that's where the car got painted.

Speaking of painting. What is so bloody difficult (and expensive)about painting a small, round bodied car with nothing on it to remove, or put back on??? Other than it's a Cobra, and not a Mustang.