[ESPCamaro]

It's a Speedway Motors 27 Track T roadster kit.

With a Chevy strait six, webers or hilborn's. A finned aluminum box built around the hilborns W/a turbo setup.

Mated to a T-5 manual out of an S-10.

Front disk brakes W/replica Buick finned drum 'brake covers'

Rear would be a GM 10 bolt (again out of an S-10 fitted with 3.73's and a T2R ( (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) ). And adapt the G-body aluminum drums to it.

Build a simple interior, and some Hildebrandt wheels with repo cheater slicks on the back....


I just may sell my Comet so I can buy one of these!!



(all of this spawned from simply looking through my fathers Speedway Motors catalog. They are the nations oldest speed shop you know (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

[sgarnett]

I have mixed emotions on the Cobra - keep it authentic or update it?

I would love to have a completely authentic reproduction 427 cobra, including the re-issue aluminum block engine. A real one wouldn't be as much fun, because they are too valuable to beat on.

OTOH, most of the replicas have different engines, and fender flares for modern tires. A C5R block or at least an LS6 would be an interesting choice - I don't understand the people who build such cars with a heavy iron engine. And if the engine can be modern or at least different, why not update the suspension a little?

Back in the heyday of the Cobra, my father was standing on a footbridge over the track as a group of them went under. The bridge was built from huge timbers, but when the Cobras went by it shook like it was made from toothpicks.