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Originally Posted by Musclerodz
My neighbor had a Superformance that was 1 of 2 with a 588 rousch. He stole it from a guy that had to sell NOW. Took him forever to sell it, and he wasn't asking the moon for it either. While it was narly to look at, sounded awesome, blah , blah, blah, I would never buy one as the market for them if very limited and saturated. Personally, I hated how far offset the pedal box was, akward if your not used to it. It was a great drive it to the local car show and watch everyone oogle over it, but that was about it for it.
A clone of Danny Popp's C3 is on my near future radar. I love that car.
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I searched on 'what is the best handling Cobra (replica)?'
Found several threads in which the majority of the responses said "JBL".
Below is from the former owner of the red JBL
"CHASSIS PARTICULARS
Distinctive to the JBL Roadster and designed by universally-respected Richard Hudgins, the chassis is a semi-monocoque structure fabricated from thin-wall (0.109" and 0.060") square steel (1018) tube and stress-bearing panels of mild-steel (#1018) 0.050" thickness. This delivers very high strength while maintaining a trim total vehicle mass/weight of only 2,400 lbs. [1,090 kg.].
The resulting chassis structure has an torsional stiffness of over 4,800 lbs./degree. Remember, the entire footwell area is made from steel, not fiberglass like almost all other replicas. This is the strongest, safest chassis and most torsionally rigid of any Cobra, either original or replica.
In its racing configuration (engine and gearbox stressed) the torsional stiffness will exceed 5,500 lbs./degree. This compares quite favorably to current Winston Cup and TransAm race vehicles. The installation of a full rollcage would further raise the rigidity to the region of 7,500 lbs./degree. The importance of chassis torsional rigidity is very simply the ability to maintain a stable platform for the suspension to operate from and relate to the road surface. Similarly, this über-rigid chassis also virtually eliminates wear & tear and potential stress-cracking on the fiberglass coachwork.
Front suspension: fully independent unequal-length A-arms with adjustable coils over QA1 shock absorbers.
Rear suspension: fully independent unequal-length A-arms, Ford Thunderbird hub carriers and adjustable coil-over QA1 shock absorbers."
The red one pictured was sold a few years ago. He goes into a lot more detail here for anyone interested...
http://www.cobracountry.com/cobra4sa...-JBL/home.html
Not sure if they are still in production or not, but instead of building a chassis to fit an anatomically correct body made from a mold off a Shelby, they built a body to fit their super strong chassis. One benefit is bigger foot-boxes. Much higher price at the time which also limited their appeal.
IIRC it was only designed for small blocks.
