There is no replacement for displacement....

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RIP Mr Shelby. Your work has provided me with many good wants, wishes, and daydreams along with the occasional high performance kick in the pants experience.
 
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I had the pleasure of meeting "Ol' Shel" on several occasions. No surprise, he was quite a character. He was even a Texan but I liked him. Which is a stretch for any Colorado native to admit.


He and the late NASCAR mechanic Smokey Yunick were my boyhood heroes in auto racing. They had an approach that was thoroughly "Amurican"and so completely "we can do that better with less than you've got" that inspires me in my own work to this day.

I wouldn't want to have competed with either of them in anything, most especially playing cards for real money.
 
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rip...

I'd be afraid to own a real Cobra (i do drive a mustang wannabe cobra), the real deal is worth so much money I'd be afraid to drive it on the street, but I don't have a spare million dollars sitting around. I'd take a replica of the original if someone gave one to me... The small block solid axle was a monster, the later big block with IRS was just insane.

Don't forget he was serious about chili too....

JR
 
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John Roberts said:
rip...

I'd be afraid to own a real Cobra (i do drive a mustang wannabe cobra), the real deal is worth so much money I'd be afraid to drive it on the street, but I don't have a spare million dollars sitting around. I'd take a replica of the original if someone gave one to me... The small block solid axle was a monster, the later big block with IRS was just insane.

Don't forget he was serious about chili too....

JR
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Cobra poster on the wall at my friend's house: An acceleration curve that's practically vertical.

Extremely scary cars...
 
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John Roberts said:
rip...

I'd be afraid to own a real Cobra (i do drive a mustang wannabe cobra), the real deal is worth so much money I'd be afraid to drive it on the street, but I don't have a spare million dollars sitting around. I'd take a replica of the original if someone gave one to me... The small block solid axle was a monster, the later big block with IRS was just insane.

Don't forget he was serious about chili too....

JR
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Nice car you drive, JR.

I like what racer Ken Miles said in 1964 about the first big block Cobra racer (a 390 c.i. version, obviously never street homologated) in the the wiki entry for the AC Cobra: "(Miles) ...pronounced the car was virtually undrivable, naming it 'The Turd.'"

AC Cobra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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