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Old 23-02-2011, 07:50 PM   #91
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Dumb *** question? What is fast glass?
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80's slang for electric windows.

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Old 23-02-2011, 07:53 PM   #92
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Oh yeah! I remember reading that term in a few of my old American Mopar mags.

For a second I thought it was prespex.
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Old 23-02-2011, 08:03 PM   #93
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315 lives about 10 minutes down the road from me. Guy drives it in rush hour traffic sometimes! Had 5.8 badges on the guards too.. should be 4.9 I thought?
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Old 23-02-2011, 08:34 PM   #94
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I went to Hanging Rock car show 2 weeks ago & saw No's 230 & 385. I took photos, if I can get them off my camera I will post them up.
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Old 23-02-2011, 09:55 PM   #95
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There is Alan Moffats XC in the Museum at Bathurst which intrigues me. Is it a Cobra or just a Falcon GS. There is no Cobra Badge on the Glovebox.
I'm very curious about this car at the museum.

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Pretty sure the car at the museum that won in 1977 is actually an XB with updated sheet metal and dash. This thread might hold the answer, but since Baby Preecey has just started waking up I don't have time to read it myself. Nappies to change lol --->http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthr...ht=race+coupes
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Old 23-02-2011, 10:08 PM   #96
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moff donated the 77 bathurst winner to the bathurst museum. for sandown 78, it was painted in cobra colours and given the horizontal repeaters on the quarter panels (bonds car kept the vertical repeaters). it was then painted in the federation colours and later restored back to the 77 colours - still with the horizontal repeaters though
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Old 23-02-2011, 10:48 PM   #97
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moff donated the 77 bathurst winner to the bathurst museum. for sandown 78, it was painted in cobra colours and given the horizontal repeaters on the quarter panels (bonds car kept the vertical repeaters). it was then painted in the federation colours and later restored back to the 77 colours - still with the horizontal repeaters though


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Pretty sure the car at the museum that won in 1977 is actually an XB with updated sheet metal and dash. This thread might hold the answer, but since Baby Preecey has just started waking up I don't have time to read it myself. Nappies to change lol --->http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthr...ht=race+coupes


Thanks for the replies.
I thought that it was the '77 winner XB with an XC update but wasn't sure.
What threw me was the horizontal rear quarter lights and the XC dash as that is a fair bit of work for asthetics especially in racing.
I knew that I read it somewhere but it didn't seem to add up (to me anyway).

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Old 24-02-2011, 02:38 PM   #98
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what happend to cobra 002 does any one have info or pics
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Old 24-02-2011, 06:22 PM   #99
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There was only one genuine numbered cobra that raced at bathurst that was number 221 was painted up white with red stripe's was featured in a issue of australian muscle cars
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Old 05-03-2011, 08:37 PM   #100
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Hi smally351,

It must have been number 25 you had at your work shop, number 27 has been in Brisbane since 1978 owned by my uncle, he purchased it from a Ford dealer in Brisbane after it was used as one marshals car at Bathurst in 78.
No 48 and 369 are also owned by members of my family.
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Old 05-03-2011, 09:20 PM   #101
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There was only one genuine numbered cobra that raced at bathurst that was number 221 was painted up white with red stripe's was featured in a issue of australian muscle cars


wasnt it involved in a smash up of some sort - dont think it was on the track though??? stolen?

looked quite cool in the white/red
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Old 05-03-2011, 10:11 PM   #102
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it was orinally rolled then purchased repaired then raced cant rember which issue of amc its in but like i said its the only genuine falcon cobra raced at bathurst its still owned by the watson family if i recall currently under restoration back to original cobra spec.
The driver who raced the car is also building a replica of this cobra he kept all the stickers of the car when they retired it from racing to give back to the watson family.
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Old 05-03-2011, 10:19 PM   #103
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Hi smally351,

It must have been number 25 you had at your work shop, number 27 has been in Brisbane since 1978 owned by my uncle, he purchased it from a Ford dealer in Brisbane after it was used as one marshals car at Bathurst in 78.
No 48 and 369 are also owned by members of my family.
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I cannot remember exactly what number it was, could have been 25, I know it was 20 something!
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Old 06-03-2011, 08:27 AM   #104
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Hi smally351,

It must have been number 25 you had at your work shop, number 27 has been in Brisbane since 1978 owned by my uncle, he purchased it from a Ford dealer in Brisbane after it was used as one marshals car at Bathurst in 78.
No 48 and 369 are also owned by members of my family.
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Hey Paul, is your uncle's no. 27 the official cobra Bathurst pace car with all the original paint & stickers etc. If so, I was talking to him at the Toowoomba swap meet - 1 very unique cool cobra.
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Old 12-03-2011, 08:53 PM   #105
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Met a bloke in my suburb who owns No 313 but now a 351.
Has owned it since 1982 and has just clocked up 120k.
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Old 15-03-2011, 10:40 PM   #106
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I know of three in Ballarat area. Not sure of the numbers of any of them but one was allegedly bought out of an old guy's shed about 18 months ago. The guy that has it now reckons it hadn't moved in over 20 years but in real good condition. And if i mentioned what he told me he paid for it we would all cry (I am). I'll see if i can suss out any numbers
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Old 26-03-2011, 08:01 PM   #107
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I went to Hanging Rock car show 2 weeks ago & saw No's 230 & 385. I took photos, if I can get them off my camera I will post them up.
Cheers Rob.
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Just met the owner of Cobra 385 today!

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Old 30-03-2011, 12:41 AM   #108
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Cobra number 340 has appeared on eBay

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/GENIUNE-Ford-...0#ht_929wt_689
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Old 30-03-2011, 12:47 AM   #109
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Cobra number 340 has appeared on eBay

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/GENIUNE-Ford-...0#ht_929wt_689
Needs more than 10k spent on it as the seller says that it needs and whats with the seats as the trim is far from right.
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Old 30-03-2011, 01:16 AM   #110
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whats with the seats as the trim is far from right.
It almost looks like material from an XD/XE Falcon.
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Old 30-03-2011, 01:42 AM   #111
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Johnny the "nut job" from Aussie Coupes has generated a coupe registry and it has 6 listed Cobra's with all their build detail.

....by nut job I mean coupe freak.... well, he does run the Aussie Coupe site!!
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Old 30-03-2011, 11:37 AM   #112
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Cobra 340 was sold July 2010 I did speak with the new owner at the time, it doesn't look any different now than it did then. Seat material is extremley hard to get these day's the company that did the last 3 runs went into liquidation one month after the last run so that's the end of that source.
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Old 30-03-2011, 11:42 AM   #113
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are you saying global trim went into liquidation?

http://www.globaltrim.com.au/

They were releasing some shortly

The owner is on AFF under user name trimmaster
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Old 30-03-2011, 02:27 PM   #114
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[QUOTE=gcg2503]are you saying global trim went into liquidation?

NO it was another company that did the 3 previous production runs.
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Hey Paul, is your uncle's no. 27 the official cobra Bathurst pace car with all the original paint & stickers etc. If so, I was talking to him at the Toowoomba swap meet - 1 very unique cool cobra.
Hi 66GT,
That is my uncles car, the paint is original but the stickers were put back on a few years ago back to the original specs, my uncles says it was the pace car but there were more than one used as marhals cars that week end so that is up for debate as the owners of the other cobras used that weekend will argue there car was the official pace car ??
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Hi all,

You can add no 76 to the list it is alive and well, bought if off a mate a couple of months ago, he had it for a couple of years.

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Old 26-04-2011, 10:37 PM   #117
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My good friend Greg over here in Christchurch owns cobra 391. Alive and well.



He has owned it for about 17 years and it is unrestored.

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Old 26-04-2011, 10:43 PM   #118
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That looks just like Cobra 392 One made it all the way to NZ. That's pretty impressive.

Good to see we are tracking them all down.
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If I remember rightly, there are a couple in NZ. Greg will know. He was only here today. Ill have a yarn with him again tomorrow and try get some more info.

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I used to own #180 which I sold in 1996,I met the guy who bought it from the person I sold it to.He said he was taking it to NZ with him and was going to restore it.No further info from this point.
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