Picked up a new cobra

**somethingclever** · 03-03-2008, 10:20 AM

Orangemachine and I went down to pick this car up last weekend in southern South Carolina. All told it took 25hrs straight. I was sick of driving after that.

It has a host ($14k worth) of road racing mods consisting largely of MM, Bilstein, 2000R, and Brembo.

Looks like i'll have something for the turns after all this yr. I'm thinking 1 weekend at BeaveRun, 1 weekend at Mid-Ohio, and a few autocrosses in between.

My old 04 cobra was no comparison to this car in the handling dept.

**Cam99** · 03-03-2008, 10:26 AM

Very nice!

**GOT SVT** · 03-03-2008, 10:42 AM

cool

you should consider the svtoa event at summit point in may

http://www.motorsportreg.com/calenda...FE0C809E657FD4

**Rodeheaver's** · 03-03-2008, 10:50 AM

looks clean.

**stangfever** · 03-03-2008, 10:57 AM

very nice........

**87notch** · 03-03-2008, 11:04 AM

Congrats,car looks really good.

**Killercanary** · 03-03-2008, 11:23 AM

Sweet! I'm drooling just thinking about how that car would behave on the track!

**mineralrob** · 03-03-2008, 11:38 AM

good choice.

**scott5** · 03-03-2008, 02:09 PM

looks good

**03 OW SVT** · 03-03-2008, 02:19 PM

Grats John

LMK when you go to Beaverun and maybe we can meet up for a Flat out Friday and some twisting fun. I plan on doing at least one Flat out Friday this year. Beaverun is just 4 miles from my house.

**INSANELY CRAZY** · 03-03-2008, 03:26 PM

thats one nice,clean cobra. nice buy

**no1fordgirl** · 03-03-2008, 11:18 PM

Nice!!

**low12lightning** · 03-03-2008, 11:19 PM

Finally a Mustang on this site that will see turns on a track! Nice ride.

**White5.0** · 03-03-2008, 11:22 PM

that looks awesome man, good buy!

**biminiLX** · 03-03-2008, 11:22 PM

'01 or '99?
I see '01 lights and rear bumper and '99 wing.
Nice car, I bet it handles great. Those cars are better balanced than the Terminators, plus the mods.
-J

**One Sweet Day** · 03-03-2008, 11:31 PM

wow. nice! must have been a good deal for driving down to get it! congrats!

**Troll** · 03-04-2008, 12:14 AM

Nice car... I guess I'll be the A-hole here. Why the heck did you get rid of the other one?

**somethingclever** · 03-04-2008, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by CST 03

Grats John

LMK when you go to Beaverun and maybe we can meet up for a Flat out Friday and some twisting fun. I plan on doing at least one Flat out Friday this year. Beaverun is just 4 miles from my house.

Thanks Kevin....i'm going to check out my schedule and i'll pm you some possible flat out friday dates. We should just plan to go on the same day.

Originally Posted by biminiLX

'01 or '99?
I see '01 lights and rear bumper and '99 wing.
Nice car, I bet it handles great. Those cars are better balanced than the Terminators, plus the mods.
-J

It's a 99. Supposedly there was a recall on the 99 back bumper from warpage. (i've seen warped ones in person) Ford replaced it with an 01 bumper.

My 04 cobra just felt really heavy in the turns...even though it easily blew by every car in my beginner's run group...i expect this car to be MUCH faster.

Originally Posted by Troll

Nice car... I guess I'll be the A-hole here. Why the heck did you get rid of the other one?

This one was a fraction of the cost....:D

Actually I didn't plan on getting another late model....but with rising fuel prices and me driving 20k miles/yr....the fuel savings will be about $100/mo. over my current DD. (ok...that is a lame excuse to justify a toy...but that's what i tell myself and it works. :o)

**03 OW SVT** · 03-04-2008, 07:39 PM

[quote=somethingclever;90292]Thanks Kevin....i'm going to check out my schedule and i'll pm you some possible flat out friday dates. We should just plan to go on the same day.

Sounds good bud. I hope to have mine lowered buy then so I can keep up in the turns. I know I won't have a problem on the strait aways.