Kirkham body made in an old Mig factory in Poland. Superformance has sold some cars with Kirkham bodies and it adds about 50K to the price of the car on a 427 s/c. They have also built at least one Daytona Coupe with a polished aluminum body. Cool but I would not want to maintain it.
… Sprayed Awl Grip and Sterling LP on boats/yachts in the LA harbor… when those paints were the real deal… Sometimes on scaffolding hanging out over the water… Never even occurred to me till now… in all those years of doing that …we only had one bug disaster… instead of sanding and spotting… We repainted the entire boat…Just the way we did things…Ok its time we start talking about how/ where ya gonna paint that beautiful sanded body? I sold Sikkens for AkzoNobel and was trained on spraying at their educational center in SoCal. Those guys are like dancers the way they move around a body... be sure to put proper Mozart or Bethoven on and for Gods sake are you rolling that into your driveway with all the air moving around. I cant... I just cant... and all those bugs in TX baby!
Word has Chevy was going to come out with a “ King of the Road” named vette.The "Cobra Killer" was pretty much in name only.
The GT500KR
Yup, I spent time with distributors painting ships and airplanes and you lil monkeys are crazy up in the air spraying like swinging from trees.
… Certainly a crazy thing to be doing, but in truth, we never even thought about the possibility of falling in the water… on the smaller boats that were in slips, we were using Sears 9” disc sander/grinders…and Rockwell 1/2 sheet plug in sanders .., our prep was so good there was no need to go any finer than 220 grit tri~mite sandpaper… and there was never a need to use a guide, coat … prep…epoxy prime …sand to perfection … then spray with Awl Grip…a true Linear Polyurethane paint…our customers just had to absorb the high cost of the LP paint and the cost of all the sandpaper that we used… the LP paint was $240 a gallon at the time… can’t remember the cost of the Awl Grip epoxy primer….and we used a lot of sandpaper …all this was way before battery operated tools… never even thought about falling in the water with an electric sander in our hand..,yikes
Ok, here we go
but it is what it is. Then I went to work on very delicately forming the curve into the end of the flat bar with a precision process. That's my anvil just to the right of the flat bar.
Looks good. Been there done thatSo I searched my spare steel pile, which isn't very big, and the strap steel I thought I had was there but turned out to be only .75" wide. Home Depot run and I picked a new piece up. $25 for a 3' section of 1.5"
Then I cut the section off and rounded off the corners. View attachment 1285079 View attachment 1285080
Next I welded to the throttle lever. I got really good penetration. It was red hot all the way through at my 2 contact points on the back. A piece of slag bounced off and even got really good penetration into my nail bed by way of my fingernail. That'll teach me to weld without gloves! maybe. The angle was very strange because of how the bracket mounts under the dash. I had to tack it and then go check it a few times before actually doing the permanent attachment.
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And then a quick coat of paint. Grip tape to come later. View attachment 1285082
Overall I'm extremely happy with how it turned out
You are making me SO happy right now
I only had 30 minutes to play with my Cobra by the time I finished my "easy" day. So I drilled and riveted a couple panels. I need to go and find my boxes that have my control cables and master cylinder/brake lines so I can continue the pedal stuff.
You're on a run baby... dont stop or even think you can only spend 30 minutes on this project.... she's gonna pull you in... I feel it in my bones. same thing happened with my buddy building his. Fun and creative watching her come to life!I swore I didn't have that much to do today. guess I was wrong.
and before anybody says hydroboost, I'm not running a power steering pump either.
Those billboard tires look cool!
X-303 with a C4 or C6 with a little stall, 2200 or more, will do okay. I don't know about an AOD, and also don't know about running the vacuum modulators on the earlies. The mass air EFi motors with an X really don't sound that aggressive. Pull it off and put a 4 barrel on and it sounds like you have a fire breather
Guess what there was more of today? Thats right! rivets!! and in case any of you were wondering why I needed that shallow angle drill, well I was feeling kind of lazy and didn't want to jack the car up in the air and put her on stands. View attachment 1286193 View attachment 1286194
And then some fun started! I found my master cylinder and manual conversion kit. I don't think I've ever seen one on a Cobra Car. Most people just utilize their factory braking system or go full Wilwood. The only problem is Wilwood won't fit inside 15" wheels and a vacuum booster doesn't work very well with my "3/4 race cam"
The best brakes that can be had on one of these cars inside of a 15" wheel.
"Strange" 4 Wheel Disc, Manual Brake Conversion Kit for Foxbodies('93 Cobra Master Cylinder, Relocation Plate, and new Brake Pedal Geometry) with 86 SVO brakes up front and 94 GT brakes out back. View attachment 1286195 View attachment 1286196 View attachment 1286197
1.125 bore diameter with a 6:1 pedal ratio
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but I also got the brake pedal and linkage hooked up underneath as well as the clutch cable linkage. Also, my grip tape arrived so the gas pedal is done too. View attachment 1287326 View attachment 1287327 View attachment 1287328 View attachment 1287330
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More rivets today
but I also got the brake pedal and linkage hooked up underneath as well as the clutch cable linkage. Also, my grip tape arrived so the gas pedal is done too. View attachment 1287326 View attachment 1287327 View attachment 1287328 View attachment 1287330
My name is HubbaHubba and I approve of this hole
Dead reckoning..... Hee Hee.... cant recall if my buddies had a scoop but I like idea
So sad to see it with an ankle monitor, like it's on house arrest
Following out is not very uncommon. The driver just has to look the part. Someone with the skills and gear to get a car like that though, would probably also have the ability to clone an RFID transponder from another car in the garage, and make a go out of it. It always amazes me how advanced the crooks are these days.
From what I've seen, that is the only hope. Make it more difficult than your neighbors'. If it's a ride like that, it's targeted because it is what it is, color and model. Then you just hope to trip them up enough for a witness or a cop.
Curious boot going on.... Oopsy, I see I'm late to thread.
