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03-10-2003, 08:02 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: caledonia,
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Cobra Make, Engine: #1459 w/460(sold)New(used),spf w/427s.o.(sold)
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Side By Side Comparison
Everyone keeps saying "mine is more accurate than yours". Would it be possible for someone who is computer literate to post a side-by-side (front/rear also) comparison of the top 5 mfg's to the original mfg so we can see how much they differ or replicate the originals. I would do this, but I have no talent on the computer.
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03-11-2003, 11:49 AM
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Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: SF East Bay,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF
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If I remember correctly try my427.com. I think there were only side views of various cars but I recall not being able to look at the interior views though. I think it was five or six different makes.
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03-11-2003, 01:13 PM
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Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Quebec, Canada,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Johnex 427 S/C, 351W, 472 HP, 444 lbs. torque
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I saw this one last week. Can anyone guess what it is?
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03-11-2003, 01:18 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: caledonia,
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Cobra Make, Engine: #1459 w/460(sold)New(used),spf w/427s.o.(sold)
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TINKER51, Thanks the side views were good. You can see a diff. in roll bars and wheel openings. The big diff. I heard were of the front ends. Thanks....
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03-11-2003, 01:25 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Northport,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham, KMP178 / '66 GT350H, 4-speed
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Quote:
Originally posted by Wayne Maybury
I saw this one last week. Can anyone guess what it is?
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03-11-2003, 01:29 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Ridgewood,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham or the Evil Empire. Do kids NEED college?
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03-11-2003, 01:34 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: caledonia,
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Cobra Make, Engine: #1459 w/460(sold)New(used),spf w/427s.o.(sold)
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That ones even better. The ffr would look a lot better(IMHO) if they changed that roll bar...Thanks
Now does anyone know of any front or rear views.
Last edited by sparks; 03-11-2003 at 02:11 PM..
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03-12-2003, 07:48 AM
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Is it the angle or does the nose on the Shelby stick out farther than all of the others?
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03-12-2003, 03:15 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: caledonia,
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Cobra Make, Engine: #1459 w/460(sold)New(used),spf w/427s.o.(sold)
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J, Most people say that an SPF is a little long in the nose? I guess w/o seeing them up close and side by side its tuff to tell, unless you know a thing or 2 about a thing or 2.........................
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03-12-2003, 03:49 PM
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PK,,,I would have posted that link, but you beat me to it. Good job.
Ernie
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03-12-2003, 04:00 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Las Vegas,
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Cobra Make, Engine: 427 SC
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The nose on the Shelby is dimensionally the same as a 3000 series car.
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03-12-2003, 05:55 PM
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Brisbane, Australia,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Contemporary CCX3117 427FE
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Of all the ERA owners on this forum, surely someone has a photo of their car taken from the same angle as all the other cars on ERA's comparison page. Do you think if you emailed it to Bob P. that he would be able to replace the butchered photos of the 427 and 289FIA, and maybe add a complete photo of the later 427SC???
All of the other photos look fine, but the two most important photos (considering it is ERA's website after all), look doctored and by coloring the background, attention is taken away from their fine lines...
That's just my critical observation from across the pond. 
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03-12-2003, 07:03 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Chicago 'Burb,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF#1245 w/ 1966 427 SO
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750Hp - You're right, that is a terrible picture. In fact, just about ALL the pictures are bad examples! The picture of the SPF is awful; blurred, front wheels are turned and it looks like there's a gap in the front wheel well, even looks like the "427 badge" above the vents is in the wrong place! Someone send them a new picture, will ya!? The picture of the B&B doesn't have a roll bar and THAT'S one of the things they (ERA) tell you to compare with theirs. They need some new pic's !!!
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03-13-2003, 05:04 AM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 1999
Location: New Britain, CT,
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Terry,
Your point is well taken. 
People and companies rarely take side-profile pictures from long distance. Even me. I would be happy to post undoctored (except to crop and size) any pictures that are better than mine. My "ideal profile" picture would be one taken from waist height and a distance of at least 50 feet, directly perpendicular to the car.
The reason that I cropped the background on my picture? I happened to get the profile comparison idea at the wrong time and place. The car was an old one (actually our first car, in for service!) so it had the wrong roll bar. The background was just to "busy" and a distraction, so I cropped it out.
I do my best.
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03-13-2003, 08:27 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Midland Park,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA 389 427s/o
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Bob,
The real reason you cropped out the background is because you did not want everyone to see the paradise that your shop resides.
Nothing and I mean nothing beats New Britian in the summer time. Everyone should visit Bob and ERA.  |
03-13-2003, 11:18 AM
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JWheaton,
Yeah, it was the bikini-clad lovelies cavorting in the background. 
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03-13-2003, 11:57 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: God's country,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Original ERA 427sc, Powered by Gessford
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Bob-
Can you make sure those lovelies are there when I come to pick up my car? Peter doesn't look so good in the bikini 
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03-14-2003, 04:44 PM
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Location: New York,
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Every original Cobra was DIFFERENT. The English panel beaters were no were as good as the Italians. The car used for the CSX4000 series [Carroll's own] has one headlight 3/4" further back than the other. Just stand at the side of the car and you can see with the naked eye. So every fiberglass CSX4000 has the same flaw.
How to compare one replica from the other if they were copied from different ORIGINAL cars.
If you like yours, that's the only thing important.
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