Funny thing as I happened to see a Cobra (only1 though) yesterday afternoon myself, First one I can recall seeing in many a year. Was waiting for a stop light to change to green and the Cobra was facing me on the opposite side waiting for it to change too. One male driving, and no passenger.
When the light changed to green I turned left, the Cobra turned to his left. Never saw what state the license plate was from. The car itself was painted either a flat black or a real dark grey primer and had a fairly large white circle and the number '55' inside the circle on the door of the side I could see as it was turning. No idea if it was a replica or an original. Weather here was mostly clear skies and around 80 degrees.
When I mentioned a "couple dozen" I was thinking of the full race 427 equipped AC Cobras. Shelby made more street versions of 427,428,, and 289 Cobras. Still, originals are too valuable to drive on long road trips, they all start at $250K and the race versions go for a few mil when they go up for auction.
The AC Cobras are the most popular of high end replicas today. Shelby had a couple dozen chassis left over and he sold those a few years ago. They aren't saying how much each chassis sold for but it was speculated to be around $500k for a rolling chassis. The challenge was finding an original aluminum body.............
The 427/428 are the best looking because the chassis was wider than the 289 chassis. There was also three different body tweaks to the fenders and front end.
Casey
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I happened to see a Cobra (only1 though) yesterday afternoon myself, One male driving, and no passenger.
How did that SAME guy get there so quick? Surely there can't be 2 Cobra guys that can't get chicks....
I always heard them old Cobra's were real fast.
Lots of small and big outdoor classic and custom car shows around here on weekends every summer. My guess is that's were the Cobra I saw probably was headed.
Got to go to SilverStone Track and watch some of the AC Cobras Race when I lived in Britain in my youth... a neighbor would take me and my brother.
Their family was friends with my family.. he was a sports reporter for one of the London papers.... These were the British made Cobras.. I think they had Ford Engines...and right hand drive.
The AC Cobra bodies were made in Bristol IIRC...in England.
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I had a similar experience here in Missouri minus the snow. Was out around Owensville MO headed home from hunting out at a friends place with my younges son in tow. There were around a dozen of them and they were coming from the opposite direction. I see them coming and start yelling at my son, "look at all of them" and he thinks I see a flock of turkeys or something in the fields and starts looking all around. II yell at him and tells him to look forward and I say "listen to this". At which I turn down the radio and roll down the windows. He was floored by what he saw and then ask, "what where those beast dad" and I explain the whole Shelby thing to him. This happened last fall and I believe there is a Cobra club around there. VarmentGuy I'm with you, they made my day and then some. I also got to come out looking cool in the boys eye for knowing what they were but that lasted only a brief moment and then the rotten kid returned. Still it was a moment.
Last one i saw was 21/2 years ago while headed to Port A. Somewhere west of Marble Fall on a divided highway one had just lost control and gone into the median which was divided by those cables strung up between those little I-beam posts. It made quite an impression on me at the time but not nearly what it did to him. Iirc it was strung between the cables at a 45 degree tilt with the cables having cut up the car and driver pretty miserably.
Talk about going out in style.
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I remember seeing Cobras race at Riverside International Raceway. No one else seem to have a chance, It would be Cobra's one and two, Ferrari third and fourth, then everyone else. Vets would try but were Behind by laps at races end. This would have been 1960's Friend has a Cobra 500HP kit car.
Buddy of mine owned a very hot 70's Arntz replica for a time in the 80's. Used to drag it at Kingdon here in NorKal. That's was the fastest car I ever rode in and can still picture the scenery flying by at 160+ a few times when we took it on a few road trips through some desolate stretches of Nevada's highways back in the late 80's.
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When I mentioned a "couple dozen" I was thinking of the full race 427 equipped AC Cobras. Shelby made more street versions of 427,428,, and 289 Cobras. Still, originals are too valuable to drive on long road trips, they all start at $250K and the race versions go for a few mil when they go up for auction.
The AC Cobras are the most popular of high end replicas today. Shelby had a couple dozen chassis left over and he sold those a few years ago. They aren't saying how much each chassis sold for but it was speculated to be around $500k for a rolling chassis. The challenge was finding an original aluminum body.............
The 427/428 are the best looking because the chassis was wider than the 289 chassis. There was also three different body tweaks to the fenders and front end.
Casey
And there is an interesting story behind those "left over" chassis.....
