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05-28-2020, 06:28 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Leechburgastain,
PA
Cobra Make, Engine: Myself/Body from CSX-2575 & hand built Birdcage
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Contemporary cobra Any History?
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6S1941
Allied 289 Slab Side
73 2.3 turbo pinto
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05-28-2020, 05:13 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Greenville,
SC
Cobra Make, Engine: 70 Shelby convertible, ERA-289 FIA, 65 Sunbeam Tiger, mystery Ford powered 2dr convertible
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Have you seen pictures of the chassis yet?
Offset trunklid latch would not be a trait of a Contemporary
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05-28-2020, 05:34 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Leechburgastain,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Myself/Body from CSX-2575 & hand built Birdcage
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It has torsion bar, front & rear Jag looks like a CCX Iowa Vin plate.
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6S1941
Allied 289 Slab Side
73 2.3 turbo pinto
Last edited by map; 05-28-2020 at 05:36 PM..
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05-28-2020, 10:31 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Cobra Make, Engine: Unique Motorcars 289 USRRC, 1964 289 stroked to 331, toploader
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Interesting... it is hard to tell, but the body somehow doesn't look like Contemporary. Didn't Shell Valley or one of the others have a torsion suspension option at one time, many years ago?
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Unique Motorcars 289 USRRC
1964 289 5-bolt block
Toploader and 3.31 rear
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05-29-2020, 06:18 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: New Britain,
CT
Cobra Make, Engine: Size 10 Feet
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No Smith gauges either.
Did Contemporary supply the original defroster vent deflectors? Those ain't them.
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05-29-2020, 06:30 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: St. Augustine,
FL
Cobra Make, Engine: E-M / Power Performance / 521 stroker / Holley HP EFI
Posts: 1,930
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map,
The early Everett Morrison cars had a 100% Jag suspension option.
Does the car have a 4" round tube chassis?
Photos from beneath and inside the hood and trunk might help.
Power Performance is/was located in Iowa, too. Maybe it's one of their early cars.
Tom
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05-29-2020, 07:53 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: St. Lucia, West Indies,
WI
Cobra Make, Engine: Unique 427SC 383 stroker
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The body certainly looks like an early Contemporary - prior to the infamous "alterations". The other irregular details could be the result of a budget build from a very basic kit. We won't know for sure without pics of the chassis. etc.
EDIT: Even the license plate light is off-center in relation to the stripes! Looks like somebody didn't read the instructions before using his new measuring tape! 
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05-31-2020, 08:35 AM
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I have one, talk to Peter Bayer at Nosigner instruments they sell Smith gauges, he built them
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