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10-08-2007, 07:57 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Gilbert,
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Cobra Make, Engine: FFR MK1
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Best response to, "Is that an original?"
99% of the time people ask me, "Is that an original?" or "Is that real?"
What is your best reply to these annoying questions?
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10-08-2007, 08:06 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Scottsdale,
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Cobra Make, Engine: FFR 302 Mass-Flo mild race engine
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Are You Kidding???? Just Say That And Never Answer The Question!!!.......
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10-08-2007, 08:08 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Syracuse,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Contemporary classics 3041,sbc 350(have no fear ford guys for there is a FE 428 in the garage waiting to be rebuilt & installed) but for now she is a driver while other projects take precidence.
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"It's not original but it sure as hell is REAL" 
Dan
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10-08-2007, 08:14 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Yorba Linda,
CA
Cobra Make, Engine: SPF w/392CI stroker
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I love the perplexed look on their face when they ask me, "Is it real or a kit?" and I tell them "Neither."  |
10-08-2007, 10:04 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Plano,
TX
Cobra Make, Engine: #42 BDR w/ a 408 KCM stroker
Posts: 605
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Originally Posted by RedBarchetta
I love the perplexed look on their face when they ask me, "Is it real or a kit?" and I tell them "Neither." |
exactly, but normally explain what the difference is
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10-08-2007, 08:17 AM
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Join Date: May 2003
Cobra Make, Engine: A Cobra
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This will probably be a can of worms that has been opened a number of times.
One might ask what frame of mind you are in when the question is asked.
A real assortment of answers can follow depending how you feel about answering.
I like the, "I can't afford an original."
Red, I use the "neither" for the same question about kit. |
10-08-2007, 08:20 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: West Monroe,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Joey Manufacturing Inc.
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i love it when someone starts this thread! 
let me get some popcorn...
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10-08-2007, 08:45 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Glendale,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Cobray-C3, The 60's body lines on todays chassis technology
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I take it in stride and choose to think they are asking is it real out of a lack of knowledge not stupidity. CAR people know but the rest just have no clue. I do tell them "of course it is real, you are not imagining you are here either" just to watch the expression on their face as that sinks in. The next sentence out of my mouth is " at about a million bucks a copy you will not see many on the road headed to Kmart.
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10-08-2007, 08:45 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Scotts Valley,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA 289 FIA #2108
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Just answer the question with a legitimate response. If they say, "Too bad." then you know you're dealing with a "real" or "original" idiot. Otherwise, you may be talking to a truly interested novice.
DD
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10-08-2007, 09:02 AM
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Cobra Make, Engine: FFR MK1
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I haven't tried this, but I was thinking about telling them "Yes." to see what would come next.
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10-08-2007, 09:16 AM
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Location: Scottsdale,
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Cobra Make, Engine: FFR 302 Mass-Flo mild race engine
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How About, ""It's a real museum piece!!"""
Dave
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10-08-2007, 09:19 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Scottsdale,
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Cobra Make, Engine: FFR 302 Mass-Flo mild race engine
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I can't give you anymore ideas..My head is overheating.. Dave P.S. I'll sit back and watch now....
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10-08-2007, 09:34 AM
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Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: Dublin,
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Cobra Make, Engine: TBD
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Always starts some discussion.
My answer..
"It is a Shelby but, not one of the original Cars from the 60's if it were an original it would be worth $500,000 or more and my pockets are not that deep."
I prefer not to go to sarcasm, abuse or be rude to people that ask the question.
Tony R.
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08-31-2012, 08:01 AM
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Location: Cupertino,
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Cobra Make, Engine: contemporary classic w/ 454
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+1
That's the same response I've been using also
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Originally Posted by Tony Ripepi
Always starts some discussion.
My answer..
"It is a Shelby but, not one of the original Cars from the 60's if it were an original it would be worth $500,000 or more and my pockets are not that deep."
I prefer not to go to sarcasm, abuse or be rude to people that ask the question.
Tony R.
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08-31-2012, 08:32 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Carlsbad,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF 2932 with 438 Lykins Motorsports engine. Previous owner of FFR 5452.
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Here we go again.
If it wasn't built in the 60's it is not an original cobra.
If it was delivered as a roller, or a box of parts, and then you built it or only put in the drivetrain, it is a kit car.
No matter how much you want to make it a "real" cobra. It isn't!
When people ask if it is a "real" cobra, they generally mean was it built in the 60's.
There are only two types of Cobras, real (built in the 60's) and kit cars (all the rest).
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08-31-2012, 10:05 AM
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Location: Tempe,AZ-High Point,NC,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham #684, 482FE, Mike Mccluskey build
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There all real in my opinion, REAL FAST.
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08-31-2012, 10:39 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Brunswick,
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Cobra Make, Engine: BDR 1311 428PI
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fordracing65
There all real in my opinion, REAL FAST.
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08-31-2012, 10:45 AM
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Cobra Make, Engine: 427
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fordracing65
back again.
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Come on now it's all a play on words none of the aforementioned are original AC COBRAs.
Meaning that the body is from England in the 1960s and powertrain was Produced and Sponsored by Ford.
It's easy to twist and turn wording to suit a purpose but everyone that asks wants to know whether it's a original AC cobra from the 1960s
I can say I have a 65 backdraft because that is the name that it was given.
Someone should come out with a kit/Roller and call it a original AC cobra that's probably not even copyrighted at this point as a whole. then if someone asked You could say oh yes it's a Original AC cobra.
Let's face it whichever one you choose is made Currently As a kit or by Some guys in the building at some different part of the earth and some other guys Give it a Engine And trains.
My cousin Mona has an original Mona Lisa Painting she can sell you for a thousand bucks but don't ask me if it's genuine :-)
And as for the main question of this Tread, I've gotten to the point where I've narrowed it down if someone asked me I just say no its a backdraft Cobra from South Africa and they usually just say wow that's beautiful I thank them and drive on.
It's so funny how we Often get offended including myself when someone questions our authenticity That we don't have 
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08-31-2012, 04:49 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Redland Bay,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Harrison #100 under construction
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Well after reading all of this my answer will still be the same !
"Is it real ? NO mate Its UNREAL !"
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10-08-2007, 09:48 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Madera,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham 427sc
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I agree with the thought of being polite. If someone asks that question they obviously are uninformed about automotive history. Just got asked that last night about my Kirkham. My buddies are a bunch of constuction guys that know a lot of stuff but very little about classic cars, other than what gets put in movies.
I usually educate them to the fact thar original cars from the 60's are of inestimatable value and that this is a 'recreation'... as close to original without spening hundreds of thousands of dollars.
They leave knowing a little more about the cars and are less likely to ask one of you fellows the same question at the next car show.
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