Very nice, reliable, well made Unique Roadster for sale with all with ALL the goodies! Many upgrades to the car in the two years of ownership. Car is very, very reliable and fun to drive. In the over two years of ownership the only things I have had to fix was a wheel bearing and rebuild a slave cylinder! A grand total of $27 and of course I have the reciepts!
This car was meant and purchased to be driven! I drove it 2000 miles home from Pheonix and it ran GREAT! Class winner in SCCA Solo II EMOD, one tough class. This is not a waxer (although I have trophies from shows as well), it is a driver! Forget the trailer and enjoy the road!
Details:
- Unique Motorcars 427 Roadster (street car type body) chassis number 9006 manufactured in '86 and professionally built. Very clean Roadster look with no roll bar but S/C touches such as side pipes, hood scoop and stripes. 2x4" ladder frame, hand laid glass. NO cracking or crazing any where in the glass! One tough body. Chassis has 24K on it but has been gone through top to bottom. 90" wheel base with a 45/55% front to rear weight distribution! Weight is 2530, fueled!
- Front suspension is MGB with the MG rack (as like original) with tube shock upgrade and 3/4" anti-roll bar
- Rear suspension is Jaguar IRS with 3.75 power-loc differential with anti-roll bar and sperical bearing forward trailing arms. I use Moroso climbing gear
oil with 4 oz of friction modifier for the power-loc.
- Brakes are custom fitted Wilwood up front featuring Billet Dynolight calipers and three piece 10.75" vented Wilwood rotors and hubs with "T" compound for the street and a set of "J" compound pads for more track oriented events. Rear brakes are Girling/Jag dual piston calipers fitted with EBC pads. Master cylinders are from Girling and pedal assembly and balance bar from Neal. Jag parking brake and assembly are also on the rear. All flex lines are Earls and Aeroquip braided stainless lines and I run Wilwood 570 in the system.
- Engine. Big valve, 4 bolt main 351 Cleveland built by Duffy Motorsports in Pheonix AZ in 2001. Motor was balanced and blueprinted and uses Keith Black Pistons, Ford Motorsports Cam shaft (dual pattern lift in the low .500's, duration in the 220's at .050), ARP bolts, K-motion valve train, Holley 670 dyno tuned to the motor, Mallory unilite ignition, Edelbrock performer intake, expensive fluid dampner, custom Armondo 8 quart road race rail pan with trap doors, center pickup, baffles and windage (beautiful pan!)...... all top quality parts. Engine was built to live at 6500 all day long. Dyno'd at 323 Hp and 354 Torque AT THE REAR WHEELS with 90% of peak torque available from 2000 (where they started the dyno recording!) to beyond 5600! Not enough, the bottem end will take all you can throw at it, just add cam! Motor will run on anything you put in it, even regular unleaded. And that is with the full 38 degrees of timing! I run 89 just because! Exhaust was custom made by Lucian at Pheonix Exhaust (widely regarded as one of the best) for the car. Headers are four tube (not four into one!) powder coated silver connected to Lucian four into one sidepipes powder coated black. Some of the finest sounding pipes you will ever, ever hear. I have used 10.5 quarts (per change!) of Mobil 1 exclusively with K&N filters and only distilled water and Red Line water wetter in the high volume water pump fed cooling system. High volume mechanical fuel pump and gauge. Motor has about 10K on it. This motor LOVES to rev! Machine shop bill on the rebuild was near $5,000 and remember that was just work on the long block while retaining the block, heads, crank and rods. It was built to LAST.
- Under the hood misc. ALL
oil and fuel lines plumbed with Earl and Aeroquip braided hoses and fittings. Mocal
oil cooler and remote oil filter mount. 16" thermostatically controled fan. Mechanical spherical bearing throttle linkage from the Finish Line. Electric choke and quick change secondaries. Closed radiator system and overflow tank. PCV system to cast aluminum Ford Motorsports valve covers and K&N breather. K&N 14" "carbon fiber" drop based air cleaner with stub stack. March pulleys. Both a spherical rod end prop that secures to the hood as well as a original style prop rod from Cobra Restorers.
- Interior. Well....black! Naugahide buckets much like original, both tilted rear ward for extra comfort and 'stuffed' with high density visco elastic foam (memory type foam), driver side on sliding adjuster track. Tons of leg room (my 6'4" father in law can even stretch out)! Cut pile carpet and snap in Cobra floor mats. Dash of the same material with Stewart Warner gauges mounted in the street car layout with tach, speedometer, fuel, oil pressure, ammeter, temperature and vacuum gauge, three indicator lights for left and right turn signal and high beams plus three center mount toggles for windshield wipers, manual radiator fan override and blank switch plus switch for emergency flashers. Center and below the dash is the control unit for the three speed Vintage Air heater and defroster unit. Moto-lita steering wheel with Cobra center section, as original, and stalk mounted turn signal selector. Steering column is a caged needle bearing type for smooth operation. Doors covered same material with map/glass pockets. Forward mounted Hurst shifter with original type black shifter handle with chromed base, black bellows boot with chrome trim ring. Original type 'slam lock' door latches and strikers with safety catch. Diest six point safety harnesses re-webbed by Deist only last year. Post mount center rear view mirror.
- Transmission. Ford Toploader wide ratio, large spline tranny with Centerforce clutch, wilwood hydraulic slave cylinder and girling master cylinder. Hurst linkage and shifter mounted forward on the transmission for better interior shifter placement. I use Red Line MTL90
synthetic lube in my toploader.
- Beautiful hand made soft top made just for the car at Terrys top shop in Pheonix. All bows, rigid sliding side curtain, etc from Cobra Restorers. Only the finest material used. Top does NOT flap no matter how fast you go! Finish line tensioner installed on windshield with uprated hardware and mounts, new surround rubber and pillar covers, smoked sun visors and wind wings all from the Finish Line. Factory Tonneau cover zippered down the middle.
- ALL body and interior electrical is Lucas as original unless otherwise noted. All bright work, windsrceen, etc either made by the original manufacturer or faithfully replicated.
- Full front and rear nudge bars (bumbers) in polished stainless steel
- PS Engineering GT40 type rim and spinners in 15x7.5 in the front and 15x9.5 in the rear covered with Hoosier TD 'grooved' road racing bias ply tires (dropped 18 pounds a piece in unsprung weight on the rear alone and these things stick like glue!) sized 245/60 up front and 275/60 in the rear. The almost NEVER rub!
- Painted (see picture) in single stage, color unknown. Although I did have a PPG shop match the paint and the formula is on the can of touch up paint. Aluminum side vents painted to match body, lemans mirror on driver side.
- Fully carpeted truck with 18 gallon welded aluminum gas neck and roller filler cap. Optima "red top" battery. Ratcheting, single hand release prop with Original style "T" handle lock with matching key.
Phew! What have I forgotten? I am sure there is something!
If you want to jump in a car and go and not have to worry about it, this car is for you! There is NOTHING that needs to be done, but like any classic car, there is always a lot you can do with it if you want! Buyer is responsible for any transportation of the car (just drive it home like I did, like I said, this is a car to be driven!).
Titled as a 1966 Ford Cobra here in Ohio. Asking $35,000.
Email me at
rfdorman@aep.com for questions. If you would like to talk to me please leave a number and a time that is convenient or you can reach me at home eves and weekends at (614) 447-0405. Be aware that the email address is my work address so I will only be checking it during business days.
Pictures coming!
Thanks
Rick
Unique 427 Roadster for sale
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