My superformance roller recently moved to my buddy's shop for final assembly after spending 1 year and two months in my garage unmolested.
During that time, I only moved it once to get a view of the car in the daylight (enclosed car carrier brought her by night). It sat in the driveway for no longer than 5 min before a guy driving his car nearly snapped his neck and simply yelled out loud....WOW!
Just a few weeks ago the car finally came out from the garage so we could put it on a trailer and bring it down to the shop for the engine installation. We had her all loaded on the trailer by about seven or eight o'clock at night when some guy riding his bicycle in the street made a u-turn so he could ask me some questions. "Nice car.....Is that a REPRODUCTION???" He kinda made me pause there for a minute. I never heard that term used before to describe my cobra replica.
He then said " You don't plan to put anything big in there like a 400 CI motor or something right??? I simply said "nahh just a 483"....he shook his head and said that a small block is more than adequate with such a light car. He couldn't help but tell me about the time when a brand new 289 cobra being driven by a girl in the '60's pulled up beside his hot rodded Ford and just left him there at the light as she blew his doors off. A moment he said he'll never forget.
I can only imagine what is in store for me when the car actually hits the street, but I'm sure it will be mixed with both positive and negative feedback.......better sharpen my tongue for the latter
