Calling all Arkansas cobra replica owners

[PurpleVenom]

Great day for it! Thanks for the pics.

[kniteridr60]

That last pic of the three that Infletcher posted is of a 427 on the dyno. If my story is right they were to install this motor in a Ford GT but had it on the dyno for measurements and break-in. Put out 598 horse at 6K plus and close to that in torque. As I stood there, the tech was running up the revs and I thought "man, this things gonna blow!"... that was before he shot it up to just shy of 7K. What a glorious sound!!!!!!

The last pic of my two is of a georgous 427 on an engine stand. Cool stacks out the top. The caulking strip (which you can't really see) is immaculate and the whole thing is polished with bits of machined billet bolted on. Artwork for sure!

It was a spectacular day!

[kniteridr60]

I felt bad for you, Jim. You were standing right behind that modified when he started her up. Man that must have been torture. My body was shaking from it and I was in the shop! LOL.

[lnfletcher]

Here's a little Video action.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyHxk_sVpl4

[kniteridr60]

I was on another forum and the folks there know I have a cobra. The moderator posted the following from an FFR post. I thought it was pretty cool (sorry if I'm re-posting somethig already here)...

With a Cobra Replica you have to remind yourself that you are driving a hand made race car on the street. There is no compromise for anything other than pure speed. These cars are brutal and unforgiving, with all the refinement of a medieval battle ax. Like being in a relationship with an exotic dancer, you can never take anything for granted. These cars don't have millions of miles of testing refinement before you get yours. For any trip longer than an hour, you need earplugs, and goggles, and carry Advil and eye drops. You will need to learn to "read" the clouds for rain in your path, and have experience in unwrapping your frozen fingers from the MotoLita. You will experience lady passengers "wetting" the passenger seat when you merge into traffic from an on ramp, and then nearly burn their calf getting out of the car.

You will have all the invisibility of a burning Hindenburg, and flee from underground parking lots when uncountable car alarms are screaming your departure. When you shop, you will remind yourself that these cars get more attention than a dead body in a parking lot.

With a power to weight ratio better than almost every supercar, you will find your 1/4 mile times traction rather than power limited. On the other hand, when you stage, out of the corner of your helmet's visor you will see almost the entire audience lining up at the fence, most with cameras up. If you track on a road course with a Porsche club, owners of expensive German machines will come to the fence to watch you power out in smoking oversteer. You won't even try to start your engine in the garage, but push it out onto the driveway, else your loyal watch dog will croak from the exhaust fumes. If you idle next to other "sports" cars at a traffic light, by the green, their girlfriend will be coughing green phlegm into her hanky, yelling at her date to just go! When you refuel, you might as well prop the "bonnet" open, because you are going to have to show your motor to just about every other guy there.

When you slowly pass a troop of Harley riders, they will look over and give you thumbs up. When you want to ease out into traffic, other cars will immediately pause to let you go ahead of them. When your engine has its hot, crackling, intimidating exhaust sidepipe aimed right at the flank of the GTO, or the Z28, your exhaust pulsation's slowly unscrewing his lug nuts, the other car will remain motionless, as if the slightest quiver of his car will cause your car to stomp it dead. When you leave it open in a parking lot, and come back to find your sunglasses and cell phone still sitting on the tunnel, it is because your car has sullenly warned those who came over to admire it "touch me and I will rise up here and kill you dead."

When you put that tiny silver key into the ignition, and begin your start countdown, your car will whisper "take me for granted, and I will kill you."

When other drivers just hop in and snap up their belts while backing out of their parking space, you will still have two more minutes before you even get all the Simpson's properly on and snugged down. Pulling up in a Cobra Replica is like landing an F4U at an ultralite convention.

In summary, very, very few drivers want this kind of attention, or can tolerate all that a formidable Cobra Replica demands. These cars are intolerant mistresses.

But remember, there will come a day when you have to hang up your car keys for the last time. And perhaps you want to say then, "I did it."

I'M A FAN!!!!!!

[lnfletcher]

I fully agree.
Ditto!

[kniteridr60]

Thinking about some kind of run on Saturday . Any takers?

[lnfletcher]

Put me down as a taker!

[kniteridr60]

OK, we have a run scheduled for this Saturday. Larry and I and anyone else that would care to join us will be at Larry's Pizza West on Cantrell Rd. at 8:15 this Sat. April 9 for a 3 hour run up to Petit Jean and back.

Please join us if you can! We'd enjoy the company.

[tradingup]

This is a definite maybe for me. Hope to see you guys tomorrow morning. And thanks, Scott, for sending the list.

Jim

[kniteridr60]

Jim, that is just tooooooo funny. Love it! A definite...... maybe ;-) Hey, hope to see you there!

[lamaluv]

We have spent the winter in Florida and will be in Little Rock the 30th of April till the 2nd of May on our way home to Idaho. I know 2 strikes already, snowbirds and yankees, but the folks in FL, SC and GA thought we were Ok. Must have been the Cobra. We will be staying at the North Little Rock KOA and would be glad to meet up with anyone that would be interested in doing some Cobra cruising.

Dick & Jo Sheehan

[lnfletcher]

Originally Posted by lamaluv

We have spent the winter in Florida and will be in Little Rock the 30th of April till the 2nd of May on our way home to Idaho. I know 2 strikes already, snowbirds and yankees, but the folks in FL, SC and GA thought we were Ok. Must have been the Cobra. We will be staying at the North Little Rock KOA and would be glad to meet up with anyone that would be interested in doing some Cobra cruising.

Dick & Jo Sheehan

Sounds like a plan! I for one am game! Maybe we can show you some reasons not to fly north again!

Having a Cobra wipes out both of the strikes!

[lamaluv]

We will plan on contacting you when we get to Little Rock and we can do some cruising. I'll pm you and get a phone number.

Dick

[kniteridr60]

Had a great run this morning to Petit Jean. A little warm (upper 80's) and humid but worth it for the roads alone! We'll do another run perhaps end of April so our "winter in FL" neighbors can join us

For now here's a couple of pics:

[PurpleVenom]

Looks like a great cruise. Looking forward to driving some of the same roads the first weekend in November with ya'll.

Tim

[lnfletcher]

Just a few more pics. Had a great time!
Scott, you will get used to the heat and humidity, just wait until August!

[kniteridr60]

Interesting how the cobras draw a crowd wherever they're parked. There were several people all over the cars as soon as we arrived. One guy asked if he could just take a picture of them. Of course he could take a picture... it would be kinda hard to say no! Plus Larry granted a couple of requests to have a couple of guys sit in the drivers seat and have their picture taken. I felt kinda bad for one of them because even though he was warned about the side pipe he still "made contact" with his calf. He put on a brave face for the camera!

[lnfletcher]

He'll have something to remember it by! (for about a week or two!)

[kniteridr60]

I have a friend who still "bears the scar" eight months later! He sort of looks at it as a right of passage and doesn't mind. Didn't even wince when it first happened.