Before I clicked I said to myself... I'll bet Rick hates the Fuch wheels..... And of course I was right
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rick81721
Lothar
Do you like them? I've never been a fan of those "cragar" style wheels. I forgot if your mustang has them!
I like everything else about that car. Well at least how it looks. I have no interest in owning an older Porsche without all the safety controls and all wheel drive that the new ones have.
I think they complete a classic 911....not to say you cant put better looking wheels on a 911, but its just part of the classic 911 look....I like them moreso in the later versions that were wider. But also remember...these wheels came out in the 60s and they were really pretty advanced for their time...NOBODY was making a forged aluminum wheels on factory cars yet...so their look had alot to do with what was able to be forged at the time. It was a pretty big deal to be able to mass produce them, kinda like those CF wheels on a gt350r
Every Plymouth Prowler owner should be forced to buy one at gunpoint.
This just sent me on a rabbit hole and ended at the ruf site.
www.ruf-automobile.de
RUF Automobile: The RUF SCR
A sports car with a perfect power-to-weight ratio, a carbon fiber monocoque, ceramic brakes and a top speed of 320 km / h.
www.ruf-automobile.de
Did you add to cart and check out?This just sent me on a rabbit hole and ended at the ruf site.
RUF Automobile: The RUF SCR
A sports car with a perfect power-to-weight ratio, a carbon fiber monocoque, ceramic brakes and a top speed of 320 km / h.
Yes. Fingers crossed the Affirm line of credit is approved lol.
JDurk
Well-Known Member
And still uses a key.This just sent me on a rabbit hole and ended at the ruf site.
RUF Automobile: The RUF SCR
A sports car with a perfect power-to-weight ratio, a carbon fiber monocoque, ceramic brakes and a top speed of 320 km / h.
rick81721
Lothar
Easy to tell it's real. Everyone seems to put side pipes on their kit kars.
Looks way better to me as a street car without sidepipes, with the bumpers, etc.
The offset on the rear wheels looks off.
mfennell
Well-Known Member
It does but apparently that's just how they are.
Read the comments, there's an original owner (55 years!) commenting about his. Really interesting.
yes, this is a "street" cobra.....so it still has this body from the competition style cobras...
But really, in 66...no street cars were out there rolling around with goodyear bluestreak tires like this competition car had.....and they couldnt get enough of the halibrand wheels, so Pete brock designed those sunburt wheels that the green car has....iirc kelsey hayes made them
They did make about 25 of the narrow hip 427 cobras...but it was too expensive to have 2 different bodies made, so they just stuck with the wider version for the rest
It is interesting reading about the production run of cobras...mainly because it was such a shit show from a production sense. Constantly changing things, supply issues, cost issues...nobody buying them because...as they were expensive...hand built cars usually are....But thats why an original brings millions and the "I bought this from Shelby" remakes bring 1-200k
splitzies?
mwlikesbikes
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Ran when parked…. 40 years ago!