Who owns a Contemporary?

RACER X #99 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-08-2002, 07:34 AM

Lets, see if we can get all the owners of one of the original and most accurate replicas to sign in here.
I'll go first.

Cranky aka Roger Davis, Contemporary #3212
Purchased in Dec, 1986 Deluxe homebuilders package
Paid $19,995
1st engine 427 SO paid $4,200 Complete including clutch and scattershield.
2nd engine 351 Crate engine $3,750
3rd engine 351 Dart stroked to 408ci 600 PLus HP
Car is retired from street duty.
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The List;
072082-102 48 IDA
3042 Keith Hummel
3080 Dominick
3092 Larry Steiner
3140 Rick 427 Cobra
3152 SCOBRAC
3212 Roger Davis
3214 Tom Thompson
CCX-3097 Kobra Karl
CCX-3710 RCP427
CCX-3-3344 John Montgomery
CCX-3-3345 Denny S.
CCX-3-3446 Bill Malone
CCX-3-3647 Zimmy
CCX-3-3715 Wayne Turpin
CCX-3-3720 Con Cobra
CCX-3-3845 Al Zack
CCX-3-3911 Gary Gibbs

CCX-4-2601 64 Daytona

CCX-2-2505 John McMahon Last car out of Burtis shop

bmalone · #2 (**permalink**) 12-08-2002, 09:21 AM

I have CCX-3-3446, built in 1990. I purchased it used--it had only accumulated 3000 miles in 12 years.

It has a 427 tunnel-port sideoiler. Two worked, Holley 750's with mechanical secondaries, sitting on a polished single-plane intake.

Close-ratio Toploader with large input/output shaft, 3.54 with quad shock Jag IRS setup.

Lots of polished aluminum panels, including the complete trunk, engine compartment, under-hood, and underneath. Have chromed suspension parts, half-shafts, etc. Pics in gallery.

48 IDA · #3 (**permalink**) 12-08-2002, 10:10 AM

I Purchased My Dhb Kit In July 1982, For 13,000.00. This
Was Before Ccx #. My Frame # 072082, Body # 106.

Engine 351 C Closed Chambered 4 Bbl Heads
12.5 Compression, 48 IDA Webers, 0.630 Lift Solid Cam
Roller Rockers, Crower Forged Steel Rods
Scattershield, T-56 6 Speed Trans, 3.54 Jag Rear
Knock Off Wheels, Roll Bar, 15 Gal. Fuel Cell
Mirror Pollished Stainless Steel Eng Panels

Car Has 30k Miles. Pictures In Gallery

Mike Braddock · #4 (**permalink**) 12-08-2002, 01:44 PM

Yup, that's one fine piece of fire breathing cleveland you have their Don! Can you belive we still don't have our EM finished yet. Actually, it's been real hard to work on it lately seeings how I'm stuck in NH at my new job

!

Mike

48 IDA · #5 (**permalink**) 12-08-2002, 05:14 PM

HI MIKE,
I AM TRULY SORRY THAT YOU HAVE TO BE IN N.H. THIS TIME OF YEAR. THE WEATHER IS THE REASON I MOVED 1,000 MILES SOUTH.

SPARE TIME IS HARDER TO COME BY AS YEARS PASS. THERE ALWAYS SEEM TO BE MORE FAMILY OBLIGATIONS THAT TAKE YOUR TIME. I HOPE THINGS WORK OUT, AND I WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE GAINSVILLE THIS YEAR. WILL BE HOME FOR THE DEEP SOUTH COBRA MEET IN GAINSVILLE?
THANK YOU FOR THE COMPLIMENT ON MY CAR. I AM GLAD YOU
ENJOIED THE RIDE.

DON

Al Zack · #6 (**permalink**) 12-08-2002, 05:55 PM

CCX 33845 - Bought DHB kit in Jan. 94. Took 2 years 8 months to complete. Have 23k miles after 6 years on the road.

1970 429 750 Holley - Toploader.
Lots of aluminum (not polished) and insulation under hood as well as under carpeting. Heat has never been a problem in the cockpit.
Painted it myself, Silver with black stripes. Love it.

John Montgomery · #7 (**permalink**) 12-09-2002, 08:18 AM

CCX-3-3344 built in 1989.

I purchased it 2 1/2 years ago from the original owner with 2800 mi. - it now has almost 6000 mi.

1968 427 SO. The original owner bought 2 427 crate motors from Ford back in '69, one of which he put in the Cobra and the other he still has...never used and still in the crate. So, the Cobra is the only car the engine has ever been used in.

Single 4bbl carb, 4-speed top-loader trans, Jag IRS 3.55 and Jag front suspension.

And an original AC luggage rack.

wtcobra · #8 (**permalink**) 12-09-2002, 09:21 AM

Wayne Turpin CCX3-3715 Deluxe Home Builder package delivered from factory 12-24-91. Front coil overs and Watts Linkage with 3.54 rear gears.

Presently has a Shelby aluminum block engine along with a Jerico magnesium 4-speed.

wtcobra

64 Daytona · #9 (**permalink**) 12-09-2002, 10:56 AM

I bought Contemporary #CCX 42601 in August of 2000 as a very tired factory demo from Upstate Replicars. Paid too much for what the car was but what else is new. This car was the prototype for the Daytona Coupe that Contemporary never got around to making. When I got it the 351W was tired and the Webers were junk so it has a 390 HP smallblock in it with a single Holley. Torsion bar front suspension and the Jag based rear.
This car was the one in all the Magazines in the late eighties and early nineties. Gone is the A/C and power windows, heater and the goofy dash. It is now more traditional Daytona.
64daytona

Mike Braddock · #10 (**permalink**) 12-09-2002, 11:13 AM

Don,

I'm pretty sure I won't be there for the DSCC event. Our car won't be done by then either

. If you go let me know so you can stop by and see my father and our shop. You need to go and show those guys how's it's done

. How's Dino doing these days? Is he planning on attending the DSCC event? Take care Don. It's good talking to you.

Mike

zimmy · #11 (**permalink**) 12-11-2002, 10:37 AM

I own a Contemporary that we built in the summer of 1991. I can try to get the serial number for you when it is warmer in the garage. Has a 427 CO with 48 IDA webers. Needs new engine for more HP!!!!

KobraKarl · #12 (**permalink**) 01-04-2003, 12:18 PM

i bought my 83 contemporary # ccx 3097, 3 years ago as a rolling basket with stock 427 so 2x4, scatter sheild ,4 spd big spline t/l, jag torsion, jag e type irs,wilton,connely,compomotives,smiths,lucas, and a "b"grade paint job.all the right stuff 90% finished,no aluminum, no chrome , no watts. wrenched on it for 6 months, its now on the road w / a couple thousand miles,still needs work.

rcp427 · #13 (**permalink**) 01-04-2003, 06:56 PM

Purchased CCX-3-3710 as a deluxe home builder kit from Upstate Replicars in Nov. 1993.
468 ci fe, top load, home made watts linkage. 3.54 gear. blue bottle. Hope to see more Contemporaries at this years Run and Gun. We had six I think last year. Is that right Wayne?

wtcobra · #14 (**permalink**) 01-04-2003, 08:10 PM

Ciiachi's and the Carlile giveaway car from St. Louis made eight, I think Rich.

wt

KobraKarl · #15 (**permalink**) 01-04-2003, 09:45 PM

any one under stand the specifics of the first # following the ccx?

Allan A · #16 (**permalink**) 01-04-2003, 10:28 PM

I almost purchased a Contemporary but was a little out of my league at the time. The owner does not need to sell, the car has a 427 Side Oiler with 5k miles on it. The car has chrome and polished alum. hardware throughout including the undercarage. It is still for sale for 50k in the Bay Area. I have photos if anyone is interested.

Allan

SCOBRAC · #17 (**permalink**) 01-04-2003, 11:17 PM

I bought #3152 in Dec. 2002 for a price so low it would make you crap. Don Borders built it in 1988. It has had a 427 SO originally.. It has a 428 in it now. I am about to drop a 427 back in..

Maybe now Don will turn loose some of the magazine slicks this car was featured in in 88/89..

Dominik · #18 (**permalink**) 01-05-2003, 12:24 AM

I bought 3080 recently, which underwent restoration before I tookk over the project.
it arrived it south-africa as the launch car in 85 or 87.

It had a side oiler once... XKE suspension, FORD CR toploader.

(where did my other reply go?)

dom, cape town

Dominik · #19 (**permalink**) 01-05-2003, 01:33 AM

thanks, bmalone to start this!
I am ready to sort them and organize, but CC access is still a nightmare with the buttons only working intermittently.

A german builder bought / copied 6 to 10 for the german market with different VINs starting with TP.

I search now for the VIN of the car that was the launch car for germany in the early 90s, idependent from the 6 ot 10 mentioned above.

CCX 3-3665 I guess.

Somewhere I also found a CCX spec sheet.doc, with a little history. the CCX body was a copy from CSX 3054.

The used numbers seem a little bit like filling the missing CSX numbers 3064 (?) to 3099 and following after CSX 3360, don't they? Especially the Daytona ...

for now I start an .exe with some numbers.

the number after the CCX seems to indicate 289 or 427 style body.

dom, cape town

zimmy · #20 (**permalink**) 01-05-2003, 06:47 AM

Dominik:

I have a Contemporary that was built in Virginia by a Contemporary dealer (he was a crook that they disavowed in mid project - but I digress) in 1991. At the same time that he was building mine, he was building several cars for Contemporary that were sent over to Germany. He probably built the one that you are referring to.