Every since I was in High School (in 1967-1971) everyone who had xxxHP and xxxTQ got into trouble.
Mine is a 427IR with 550HP and 535TQ. It gets goosey turning and downshifting.
Nowhere in the history of Cobras were they draggers (footnote to follow) but they are awesome road track cars. Not off the launch but one helluva car on the straightaway.
Footnote 1: I'm a carnut and was watching this really goofy movie that I recorded from TCM on Saturday: Two-lane Blacktop. It starred James Tayor (yes, the singer), Dennis Wilson (from the Beach Boys), Warren Oates (a trained professional actor) and Laurie Bird as "The Driver", "The Mechanic", "GTO" and "The Girl". This is the movie that inspired the Cannonball Run. It was a "pink slip" race (that never finished) but at one of the scenes as they got diverted there were "a couple of Cobras". I smiled
