mwlikesbikes
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Not to mention that it was on Mulholland drive. A road so infamous that it got a song written about it.
Car-spotting thread
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this was the first thing that popped into my mind when they said it was in malibu.
I love the first line
It’s a replica, but most people are completely fooled.
its really not that hard to spot a replica...its actually REALLY easy. I mean start with the fact true original cobras are almost NEVER driven around. And I dont mean the shelby licensed recreations that you can still buy. They are great cars and probably better than the originals...but they arent VALUABLE like the originals....Big difference driving around a $100,000 car and a car worth $1 million or alot more (depending on which cobra it was). Best way to tell a real original cobra....it will look 50+ years old...definitely wont have 17in wheels on it
serviceguy
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exactly what im talking about....read the sign....this is a recreation done under license of whats left of shelby and built by superformance...they are great cars and all...but they are not in the same stratosphere as an original in terms of value.
rick81721
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I love the first line
It’s a replica, but most people are completely fooled.
its really not that hard to spot a replica...its actually REALLY easy. I mean start with the fact true original cobras are almost NEVER driven around. And I dont mean the shelby licensed recreations that you can still buy. They are great cars and probably better than the originals...but they arent VALUABLE like the originals....Big difference driving around a $100,000 car and a car worth $1 million or alot more (depending on which cobra it was). Best way to tell a real original cobra....it will look 50+ years old...definitely wont have 17in wheels on it
Haha yeah I use this criteria for determing real from replica - if you see one on the road or at a car show, it's a replica
mfennell
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Another rule of thumb: if it has sidepipes, it's not original. They made less than 50 IIRC.
I saw an original 260 or 289 Cobra out near Hartshorne while driving my Factory Five many years ago.
Ya the street versions didnt have sidepipes, but they did make ~80 or so 427 S/C cars with sidepipes....Then of course there were the 289 FIA Cobras, they had sidepipes (although not street car, but originals) Plus cobras were handbuilt and there were many subtle differences between each one. Some customers wanted sidepipes, some got 428s instead of 427s...
If I saw one just driving around or parked at a random car show, id call bullshit until I read the chassis #....about 60,000 replica cobras have been sold....348 original 427 cobras were made.
THATmanMANNY
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Ive seen this THIN somewhere before? Show? BaT?
AMG GT - man that thing ja haaawt
AMG GT - man that thing ja haaawt
mwlikesbikes
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In the “holy crap, I didn’t think any of those were left file” I saw a Subaru Justy this morning as I was getting off the t-pike.
Didn’t look in too bad shape either. No pic but it was just like this one.
Love the “4WD” decals to match the tiny ass tires!
Didn’t look in too bad shape either. No pic but it was just like this one.
Love the “4WD” decals to match the tiny ass tires!
I remember when I was in HS a girl I knew had one of these and used to let me drive it....it had a cvt...dear god all of these need to be rounded up and crushed.
Captain Brainstorm
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Those skinny tires work phenomenally well through the snow, they cut right through it. I had a Dodge Omni, another incredible piece of shit, with skinny tires that was supernatural in the snow, it’s only redeeming attribute. I’d say round them up and crush them too, but pretty sure nature already beat me too it and they’re all piles of red dust by now.
the spoiler ruins it.
ekuhn
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The base models are balls of shit, but you can't sleep on the Omni turbo model.
https://jalopnik.com/for-11-500-this-1986-shelby-dodge-could-let-you-go-li-1760549422
The boys at Bimmer Clinic/Maximum PSI in South Amboy have an Omni and they are aiming for 500 whp.
Captain Brainstorm
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The platform of the car is complete garbage, its like Chrysler had a mountain of spare parts left-over from their worst 80’s cars, parked a group of engineers in front, and said “make a car out of this”. I will concede though, that Omni Turbo can be a serious sleeper.
Funny story about the “sleeper”. Couple of years ago I was driving home East on 17 from my favorite fishing spot in the Catskills around midnight. As you get to the tolls around Woodbury Commons, 17 merges onto 87 South through a wicked decreasing radius right after the tolls. As I went through the tolls, a guy in a worked Omni Turbo glues himself to the back of my S4 (I could hear his blow-off valve working). Car was fast, could have probably blown by me. Needless to say, we were both going way too fast into that right-hander. I manage to 4-wheel drift through it, but he lifts right before the apex, loses the back, and goes into a crazy series of “tank slapper” corrections. Amazingly, he doesn’t hit the wall, but immediately throws out the boat anchor, game over. I would imagine he was probably pretty shaken up after that, because I was from just watching it.
TJYeti
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One of the less than 50;
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what were you doing in my driveway?
THATmanMANNY
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Is it 50 or hundreds?
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/article/1962-1967-shelby-cobra/
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/article/1962-1967-shelby-cobra/
TJYeti
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Partying. Sorry about the donuts and burnouts. We’re kinda classless
