[Robert Evans]

YOU GUYS, QUIT BRINGING UP THE DA*N DRAG RACING ASPECT OF THIS THING! WE ARE NOT DEBATING YOU WHEN IT COMES TO DRAG RACING. WE ARE NOT DEBATING YOU WHEN IT COMES TO WHICH MOTOR IS MOST AUTHENTIC IN A 427 COBRA. WE ARE NOT DEBATING THAT BB'S CAN MAKE ALOT OF HP.

What we are debating (at least I am) is that in 1963-1965, the 427 Cobra was no better as a RACECAR, DO YOU HEAR ME, A RACECAR ON A ROADCOURSE!!!!!, than the Comp. 289 that it was supposed to replace. Today, at NERC, at Willow, at whereever, it is still not the "Super-Cobra" that the BB guys think it is!!! I am telling you from firsthand, not hearsay experience, that someone who was acually the father of the racing Cobra says it's a piece of crap. Always was, always will be with regard to what they built in 1965. Why do you think the car was DOA so early?? It would not sell!!! It couldn't be homologated because no one would buy enough of the things to qualify for homologation. My business experience tells me that there must be a demand for something before it can be manufactured. THERE WAS NO DEMAND! They sat with flat tires at LAX with no purchase order in sight!! Why do you think they only produced 348 of them??? It wasn't until the replica builders resurrected the Cobra a few years later that the Cobra caught on again.

Today, people like Mac Archer and Fez have gone beyond what anybody else has done with the 427; they have fine tuned them and made them work. BUT THEY ARE STILL NOT THAT MUCH BETTER THAN THE CAR THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO REPLACE!!! ON A ROADCOURSE, NOT ON A DA*N DRAGSTRIP!!! I CONCEDE THAT THE 427, 460, 514, WHATEVER IS THE BEST DRAG MOTOR AVAILABLE, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT WORKS ON A ROADCOURSE!! The 427 was the ultimate muscle car on the street for quite some time because of it's straight-line capabilities, BUT AS A RACECAR, IT WAS A PIECE OF CRAP. PERIOD!

Evan, I have yet to see a phone number from you so I could have discussed this matter personally. I am not willing to sit here all afternoon typing a dictionary length book about why the 427 was not successful based upon those who wrote about it and were there firsthand. I'm not willing to waste any more of my time on this subject anyway. This is it. We will never persuade anybody here. I just suggest that you go buy some REAL Cobra books about the history, not just the ones with all the pretty pictures. (It appears as though the name Remington is new to you. The books with words in them will explain who he is.) Beware, most of the books about Shelby American are about their RACING HISTORY, so you won't find too much written about the 427's there. If thats what you're looking for, go find some nice books on the musclecar era.