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For Mike & Kim!!!

They build the bodies for those at a shop around the corner from my house. Brain got his car painted there. That's how we knew they did good work. If they can make the car bodies there they should be able to paint them.
 
Decent kit car. Too bad about the motor. It looks like there might be the wheel rubbing issue with this car that I've heard about a couple times from factory five, and this car only has the 15" rims.

Since I already have an FE motor, I think I'm going with this rolling chassis. I want to build it myself, not buy one already done.

http://www.erareplicas.com/427/427sc.htm
 
is it me or does it look like the body is sitting too far back on the chassis?
both front and rear wheels look too far forward.
 
Yeah, that's kinda what I meant. The owner of the last comany I worked for bought a turn key, with a 351 FI and it had the upgraded 17" rims, and if he turned the steering wheel all the way to the stops, the tires would rub. It looked the same as if the body was on too far back. That's how I can usually pick out a factory five from a distance.
 
elraido said:
I just think those are the ugliest cars out there. :shrug:
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Just because this is the only view you get out on the road?

altenhofen-rear-5a-540x428.jpg
 
I do have to say that I usually find something I don't like about pretty much every replica. There was one time at the summer nationals in Worcester, MA where I saw a british racing green cobra. As I walked up to it I was trying to find something wrong with it. It did have chrome pipes and roll bar, and some of the later originals did come that way alothough most originals have black pipes and roll bar. I walked around it a bit and could not find anything wrong, so looking inside I see the CSX plate, which is on all originals so I said under my breath, This is real. The owner was standing beind me and said, yes it is! Its was one of the "new" original Cobras built in 1996 by Shelby American.
 
Cobra said:
I do have to say that I usually find something I don't like about pretty much every replica. There was one time at the summer nationals in Worcester, MA where I saw a british racing green cobra. As I walked up to it I was trying to find something wrong with it. It did have chrome pipes and roll bar, and some of the later originals did come that way alothough most originals have black pipes and roll bar. I walked around it a bit and could not find anything wrong, so looking inside I see the CSX plate, which is on all originals so I said under my breath, This is real. The owner was standing beind me and said, yes it is! Its was one of the "new" original Cobras built in 1996 by Shelby American.
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I wish they'd do a replica of the Series One!!!
 
the can''t make the replicas *exactly* the same. from what i've read, some of the replicas actually drive and handle better due to more advanced technology use in the tubular frame design.
 
baco99 said:
the can''t make the replicas *exactly* the same. from what i've read, some of the replicas actually drive and handle better due to more advanced technology use in the tubular frame design.
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Oh i agree on both points. Factory Five cars have more technology and if they had the same power as the oldies (which is hard to find since most are 5.0) they would out handle the oldies on a track. I just hope to make mine look as close to an original so that most people wouldn't know, only the experts.

I always thought this was neat, although still under powered.

http://www.shotimes.com/SHO0cobra.html
 
elraido said:
There are a few around here and they just don't do it for me. That and I can't drive them worth beans on Gran Tourismo. :blackeye:
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PANSY!!!...PANSY!!!! I bought and built mine. 667HP, 780tque. Handles like a brick until you learn to control it. Then it's more fun than a barrel of Elky's grapes. Oh, and I lightened the hell out of it. I think it weighs like 2050lbs or so:drool:
 
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