Posted by EmuMannen on 4, 2001 at 2:14 PM:
In Reply to: RIGHT-hand-drive Cobra! Whoo! posted by Mojo2000 on 30, 2001 at 2:20 PM:
Sorry that you had to wait for my reply...
My Cobra won’t look exactly like that. It won’t look exactly like an original 427 SC either. Most replicas are wrong in the first place and making it right would almost cost as much as the real thing! I like the shape of the car and I will build something that looks like a Cobra but probably with a Chevy SB engine and with a general vintage race look.
The car on the picture is a British Gardner Douglas and that’s why it is right hand driven. You are right, there where never any 427 built as right hand drive. I just used the picture as an example because it is a bit how I picture the car I am about to build.
My car will be left hand driven since we do drive on the right side of the road in Sweden. And you are right again about the under slung exhaust pipes, I don’t want my wife to get burnt by any nasty side pipes :)
: Nice! Thanks for putting up that linked photo. Questions:
: 1) Why the right-hand-drive? I didn't know 427 SC's ever had that. But then again, I don't know what the norm is in Sweden (if that is in fact where you are from).
: 2) The center exhaust pipes... I guess you didn't want to roast your calves? :-)