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Title: Meet Mr Cobra: The King of Shelby Cobras
Source: YT
URL Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A63kWP9DrKQ
Published: Dec 1, 2014
Author: Carfection
Post Date: 2018-11-28 20:07:42 by X-15
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Keywords: Shelby, Cobra, Ford
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Comments: 7

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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Great, great stuff. I'll always remember the first time I saw a metallic blue Cobra down here parked on the Drag (Guadalupe Street) in the fall of 1965.
Something that hits so hard that you never forget it.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Lod posted on 2018-11-28 21:13:50 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#2. To: Lod (#1)
Ford horsepower + beefed-up small English car chassis = ultimate hotrod
“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group."
-Alex Kurtagic

X-15 posted on 2018-11-28 21:43:04 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#3. To: X-15 (#2) (Edited)
It was a visceral toss-up that freshman year whether the Cobra or Farah Fawcett was the hottest..
(Not that I was able to test drive either one)
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Lod posted on 2018-11-28 21:47:16 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#4. To: Lod (#3) (Edited)
Haha!!! In hindsight, you would have got WAY more mileage from the Cobra :)
P.S. a former manager of mine went to UT at the same time as F.F. - said he watched her walk across broken glass/hot coals/something (it's been over 30 years) in some sort of college campus nonsense.
“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group."
-Alex Kurtagic

X-15 posted on 2018-11-28 22:17:58 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#5. To: Lod (#3)
The 2003/2004 Ford Mustang SVT Cobra was a killer - watch the speedometer on the left wind around without slowing down:

“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group."
-Alex Kurtagic

X-15 posted on 2018-11-28 22:41:55 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#6. To: X-15 (#2)
With the 427. Zoomzoom

Obnoxicated posted on 2018-11-29 0:29:48 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#7. To: Obnoxicated, X-15, drivers (#6)
I've always liked the smaller CID engines (283, 289, et al) that are tweaked to the max, instead of the huge-block engines...just as I like using the smallest caliber possible (.222 or .270 or .204) for hunting most anything here in TX or in North America for that matter.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Lod posted on 2018-11-29 9:59:25 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
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