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02-22-2010, 11:08 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Mooresville,
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Cobra Make, Engine: BDR, Stroked small block
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BDR Passenger roll bar / Stripes
Im looking at purchasing a BDR. I looked at one and noticed the position of the roll bars and the strips are not even. I think these were installed by BDR and not added on later. Is this common? Are the passenger bars wider?
Thanks
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02-22-2010, 12:55 PM
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Backdraft Racing Dealer
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Haven,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Backdraft Racing
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That looks to be a pretty old car. I don't know, the grommets also appear to be different from one side to the other. On a car of that age there are a number of reasons the stripes could be off like a repaint/repair... the difference in the grommets has me thinking.
Do you know the chassis number of that car?
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02-22-2010, 01:06 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Cobra Make, Engine: BDR, 351W, 400 Horses
Posts: 520
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Hi Jay, I took a close look too. The second Roll bar may have been added at a later date rather than the at the factory.
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02-22-2010, 01:46 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: southeastern,
OK
Cobra Make, Engine: BDR #139, Indigo blue, white stripes, KeithCraft 351W, 315 WHP, 17" Boyd Smoothies, dual roll bars, gunrack, assorted young females
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This is odd. After viewing this post, I looked at a pic of #139 taken 2-3 years ago.
Yes, I saw an offset.
My duals were installed at the factory in Durban, prior to delivery, I remember because my dealer triple-checked with me before the chassis was shipped from SA.
Possibly some offset with the frame mounts? Possibly a body-drilling template that was a few MM off?
I have to ass-soom that the holes in the body were very carefully cut after mounting the body to the chassis.
I will try to post a pic if I can meet file-size limits.
Curiouser and curiouser.
UT
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02-22-2010, 01:53 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: southeastern,
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Cobra Make, Engine: BDR #139, Indigo blue, white stripes, KeithCraft 351W, 315 WHP, 17" Boyd Smoothies, dual roll bars, gunrack, assorted young females
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I just spewed. WTF, that IS my car!!! LOL!!!
Just a different photo crop!
I also noted that in the pic, the mounting flange on the RH roll bar seems to be slightly larger in diameter and slightly thicker. Never saw that before, after 5-1/2 years.
Meanwhile, back at the Ranch in Durban, to answer 68 Fastback's question...
UT
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02-22-2010, 03:28 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: southeastern,
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Cobra Make, Engine: BDR #139, Indigo blue, white stripes, KeithCraft 351W, 315 WHP, 17" Boyd Smoothies, dual roll bars, gunrack, assorted young females
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That's what I thought.
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02-22-2010, 04:00 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Haven,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Backdraft Racing
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UT,
How much of Gunrack was repainted from the off roading trips?
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02-22-2010, 06:27 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: melbourne florida,
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Cobra Make, Engine: backdraft racing 302 ford
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I have backdraft #84 with dual rollbars and they are right on the money as far as spaceing goes. The stripes are right on center and i measured them.
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02-22-2010, 07:25 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Bradenton Florida,
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Cobra Make, Engine: BDR 930, 427 Windsor T56
Posts: 658
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The labels on the headlight and wiper switches aren't horizontal either. Sheesh, what a pos.
I am just kidding. Just in case someone that doesn't know takes it the wrong way.
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02-22-2010, 08:02 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Pembroke Pines,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF 692, Ford 351W
Posts: 47
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Hi there,
I have BDR # 80 with dual roll bars and they are evenly spaced unlike the ones in the photo.
Joe
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02-23-2010, 01:46 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Mooresville,
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Cobra Make, Engine: BDR, Stroked small block
Posts: 117
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It did not take long for me to make a mess… … I cropped the image to protect the innocent, as the saying goes. When I read gunracks “WTF” I hit the floor.  I could just see the look. I truly hope I did not offend. I have learned a lesson (just ask). Are the knobs offcenter too  |
02-23-2010, 03:09 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: southeastern,
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Cobra Make, Engine: BDR #139, Indigo blue, white stripes, KeithCraft 351W, 315 WHP, 17" Boyd Smoothies, dual roll bars, gunrack, assorted young females
Posts: 1,308
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Snout was repainted, after we dug the topsoil out of the cowl.
Gatorac, I just bought it, I didn't build it. I have no other BDR to compare it to.
(Or anyone qualified to fix its birth defects, for that matter)
Why is my speedo about 30 degrees out-of-vertical? Tradition?
No harm, 68.
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02-23-2010, 07:14 PM
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I thought there was a pic here of some barbed wire effects down the back?
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