Thread: Kit car rant--Cobra vs. 'glas streetrod

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Dago Red,

Are you aware that Shelby put the wrong badges on a whole series of the CSX 3XXX Cobras? The first 60 were Comp cars with 427s and single four barrel carbs. The next in the series had 428s badged as 427s. At the end of the 3XXX run he went back to the dual four 427 side oilers. My self I tried for years to buy one of the 289s but the people that had them wouldn't part with them as they handled so much better than those heavy big blocks did. When I was working they used to send me all over and I spent quite a bit of time around the Shelby complex at LAX and other places looking for a 289. One car lot down there had 3 of the 427 bodied cars for sale, all with less than 3,000 miles on them. I used to look at them and could have bought all three back then for $15K, but no, I had to have a 289 which I could never find. Now any one of those cars would be worth a fortune, especially the Comp one.
But like you I believe in the badges being correct and that is why when I built mine I had 351 Windsor badges on it. Funny thing happened at a car show I took it to. A friend of mine had one that he showed and I drove mine on the track and it was not a show car, but I drove up to the show with him. We Parked next to each other and he also had a 351, but had 427 badges. Some guy made about 6 trips between the cars and finally asked Joe why his 427 looked exactly like my 351. The next week he had 351 badges on it.

Ron

My Cobra--Show award winner "kit car"lol

This is kinda like the whole "Did you build it or by it" subject. I once asked a guy at a show if he built the car that I was admiring and his reply was "Yep, I signed every check". I laughed and told him he did good.