OK, so it's not "new", but I've just imported a lovely old Contemporary Cobra and took it for a first decent run down to the Queensland Cobra Club breakfast this morning.
If you saw my old blue Cobra, you'll know that it was fast but not exactly an authentic looking replica.
I've always hoped that I would end up with something that had the power, but that also looked pretty close to the way the original cars were back in the day. To achieve that, I have looked around for a while for an early replica that had a healthy FE big block, period style accessories and the patina of a car that has been on the road for decades.
I found it!
The fact that the Contemporary Cobras also have a round tube chassis is good for originality I suppose, but I don't think it's as torsionally strong as my Arntz and it's probably about a millionth as strong as the new Absolute Pace chassis or the JBL cars in the US.
I had put my Arntz Cobra up for sale to make way for this one in the garage, but I'm still having too much fun with the Arntz so I'm keeping them both. They're completely different cars with different characteristics, so I'm using that to justify why it is sensible to own 2 Cobras.
About the only thing I'll probably do is swap out the Compomotive wheels for some Trigo pin drive jobbies. Other than that, it's exactly what I wanted and I'm over the moon with how it drives.
Interior with the patina of a car that's been used but well looked after.
1964 date coded 427 FE big block. Keith Craft CNC Edelbrock heads and a few other goodies. TKO600 with shiny red McLeod spinning bits and a German autobahn 5th gear ratio that makes it unusable at Queensland speed limits.
Ahhh, pretty purple flowers.
I bought the car off a deadset champion over in the States. He jokingly asked for a photo of the Cobra beside a kangaroo as proof that the car had arrived in Australia. Hundreds of them live pretty near my place, so i thought it would be easy. The reality is that they scatter as soon as a high compression big block through barely muffled side pipes rumbles towards them. Not to be outdone, I took this photo. The fact that I had to point out Skippy in the photo means that I didn't do a very good job. It was that, or send a photo of the car beside some roadkill...
