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04-24-2007, 08:23 AM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: McKinney,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA GT #2077, 331 SBF, Webers, Gurney Eagle heads
Posts: 1,275
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The *LOST* ERA chassis
According to the mustachioed one .. legendary chassis #745 .. previously know only to the enthusiast community as the *missing* ERA 427 SC .. has been located in a shipping container behind ERA's facility  Along with another chassis of unknown ownership  I have arranged with ERA to resurrect the hulk and complete it as a painted roller. It is now located at Tony's Auto Builders in MA, where hopefully it will take on the Baja Oklahoma Racing Team colors of bright silver with viper red stripes. Book rights are under negotiaton .. 
For those friends who may be in New Britain looking for the thing 
Cheers,
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04-24-2007, 09:00 AM
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CC Member
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: California,
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Cobra Make, Engine: NAF 289 Slabside Early Comp Car with 289 Webers and all the goodies. Cancelling the efforts of several Priuses
Posts: 6,592
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It was cut up yesterday and the VIN saved by a dumpster diver in hopes of resurecting a clone in the future. Sorry
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Rick
As you slide down the Banister of Life, may the splinters never be pointing the wrong way
Last edited by Rick Parker; 04-24-2007 at 09:10 AM..
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04-24-2007, 09:03 AM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: McKinney,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA GT #2077, 331 SBF, Webers, Gurney Eagle heads
Posts: 1,275
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.. and so it goes! I predict multiple VIN #745's will turn up, each claiming to be the original 
Cheers,
Sam
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04-24-2007, 09:06 AM
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CC Member
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: California,
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Cobra Make, Engine: NAF 289 Slabside Early Comp Car with 289 Webers and all the goodies. Cancelling the efforts of several Priuses
Posts: 6,592
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With Toyota engines intended for EXPORT only!
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Rick
As you slide down the Banister of Life, may the splinters never be pointing the wrong way
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04-24-2007, 09:18 AM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Miami,FL,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA FIA; 331 stroker; TKO 600:3.54 Rear
Posts: 99
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Sam, is yours the ORIGNIAL 745 or a replica? Check the serial number for velcro!!
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04-24-2007, 10:10 AM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: White Plains,,
NY
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA140, ERA 267, ERA GT2038, ERA FIA 2045, ERAGT2077 ERA2893000EXP
Posts: 1,117
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I have checked the google earth satellite pictures of Tony's shop up in Mass. and #745* can be clearly seen out behind the paint shop (alongside a pile of other long lost ERA projects) as part of a unique process developed by Tony of "normalizing" or antiquing that includes a dunk in the Connecticut River. Lest there be confusion in the future, an ERA chassis #745 b has been sighted... although clearly #745a is more valuable as being the first #745, this unfortunate duplication of chassis may lead, in the future, to litigation or, at the very least, agitation.
J
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04-24-2007, 06:50 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: McKinney,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA GT #2077, 331 SBF, Webers, Gurney Eagle heads
Posts: 1,275
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The Real Thing!
*745* is an ORIGINAL ERA 427SC, not a shabby clone or replica!!  No pseudo psnake .. the real deal! The genuine article can be distinguished by the indelible grease pencil VIN on the nose, and the half eaten meatball sub underneath the aluminum trunk panel Jim, thanks for the insight into Tony's material conditioning process .. I feel better now about why it takes 8 weeks to paint a car. Does it go in the river between each layer of Bondo and paint? I had heard about him letting the cars "cure" between coats
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04-26-2007, 08:39 AM
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: White Plains,,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA140, ERA 267, ERA GT2038, ERA FIA 2045, ERAGT2077 ERA2893000EXP
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I checked with Peter... he's been looking for that meatball sandwich for a week and wondered where he had left it...
Jim
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