Really? Have you ever added up just the PARTS to build a car? Then add paint? They're a relative BARGAIN. Even more so when you buy a used one.
A used one, sure, that may be a bargain. Also not $100k. It's a pretty basic car, just hard to imagine paying that much for what you get. (Looking at that Superformane link you posted)
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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Funny ---- a quarter mile from the house is The Sun Valley Lodge.... a wonderful historic "place" --- it's on the only road I take to get to my house - and lo and behold as I cruised home from a little fly fishing -- bright colors catch my eye!!
A gaggle of COBRAS parked side by side! LOL --- what's the odds of that - that they'd be here this week.
Probably 40 of them. And lots of trailers in the gravel lot out back. I was going to take a picture of them to post up here - but most of them were parked behind a gate. Wasn't really worth the effort (I'd have had to park and walk over -- LOL).
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.
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...
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.
Funny ---- a quarter mile from the house is The Sun Valley Lodge.... a wonderful historic "place" --- it's on the only road I take to get to my house - and lo and behold as I cruised home from a little fly fishing -- bright colors catch my eye!!
A gaggle of COBRAS parked side by side! LOL --- what's the odds of that - that they'd be here this week.
Probably 40 of them. And lots of trailers in the gravel lot out back. I was going to take a picture of them to post up here - but most of them were parked behind a gate. Wasn't really worth the effort (I'd have had to park and walk over -- LOL).
Maybe I should get the drone out and go buzz 'em.
Greg,
Sometime back I came across a write-up of the Sun Valley Lodge. Historic for sure.
Oh and btw... imho if you came across a bunch of C2's, we'd be lookin' at pics by now!
A clone of Danny Popp's C3 is on my near future radar. I love that car.
Mike,
I didn't know the story behind the '72 coupe...that both his Dad and his Mom ran auto-x with it and his Dad purchased the car in 1973 for that very purpose.
Sometime back I came across a write-up of the Sun Valley Lodge. Historic for sure.
Oh and btw... imho if you came across a bunch of C2's, we'd be lookin' at pics by now!
No --- I would have done the same thing..... Only reason I'd have stopped to take the pic was just to tie the coincidence of them being here in town with the thread being fresh. I have 20,000 car photos on my computer.... don't really need any more. LOL
Sun Valley is "historic" for one reason -- it was the WORLDS very first ski lift (1936). Averell Harriman (owner of Union Pacific Railways) had it built and built the lodge for his rich and famous friends - and to pimp passengers to ride his railroad. A walk thru the hallways is a trip back in history of the "who's who" during several decades.
Funny -- the stores at the base of the mountain are named "The Brass Ranch" -- the area was, in fact, the Brass Ranch - which was purchased (at $4 per acre) to build the "resort". To put that into perspective.... I bought 1.6 acres for 1.625M - to put that into perspective - current owners of "Sun Valley" bought the entire operation in 1977 for 12M - of which my property was part of that deal. LOL
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