RE: Happy Birthday Cobra

RE: Happy Birthday Cobra

Thursday 17th January 2002

Happy Birthday Cobra

40 years of Legend


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thom

Original Poster:

2,745 posts

275 months

Thursday 17th January 2002
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Hurray to the Greatest Car of the century...and let's hope AC will build "proper" Cobras again...

Roadrunner

2,690 posts

269 months

Thursday 17th January 2002
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I read cobra is busy filing lawsuits against all those kitcar companies that used their name without consent. Apparently the next stage is to file cases against the use of it's car boady shape as well. It's a shame all those cortina based kits watered down the marque so much.

Bruce Fielding

2,244 posts

284 months

Thursday 17th January 2002
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Has anyone ever tried that Carroll Shelby trick with a banknote in a TVR? Would the tuscan be able to do it? If you don't know the trick, ask petrolted...

Roadrunner

2,690 posts

269 months

Thursday 17th January 2002
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what?!

Bruce Fielding

2,244 posts

284 months

Thursday 17th January 2002
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Sorry, that was rude of me

Supposedly he would bet a potential buyer that he or she could not stand up from the passenger seat, reach over the windscreen, and grab a hundred dollar bill from beneath the wiper while the car was accelerating from 0 to 100 MPH. If they could grab the bill, it was theirs to keep. If they couldn't, well the force of being pushed back into your seat should make a great enough impression to sell the car.