Ouch! Anyone want a Cobra project?

[bull]

http://www.copart.com/c2/onSaleResults.html?_eventId=getLot&execution=e2s2&lotId=13632389

Dayum! That must've felt good bending the steering wheel over with his chest.

[bull]

Here's another one: EDIT - nevermind, it's gone.

[Silver R/T]

ouch, is that brain splattered on carpet?

[Lowprofile]

What a shame. good thing they're only kit cars.....

[Ghoste]

The steering wheel looks awful but given the fragile nature of those go karts and the relatively light damage on the front end I wonder if he wasn't going all that fast?

[bull]

Reminds me of this ding-dong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTEvJ2Tl8Ss

[69bronzeT5]

I wonder if they hit each other

[ZSmithersCharges]

Reminds me of this ding-dong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTEvJ2Tl8Ss

Right once she started chirping the tires I would have been like... Oookay, get out.  I mean she obviously cant drive the thing so why dont you put the camera down and teach her not just watch her wreck and say "i knew it". People piss me off.

[tan top]

http://www.copart.com/c2/onSaleResults.html?_eventId=getLot&execution=e2s2&lotId=13632389

Dayum! That must've felt good bending the steering wheel over with his chest.

don't think the driver made it out of that wreck

[1BAD68]

Why would they let that woman drive away after seeing her have so much trouble trying to get out of the parking lot? And the camera man saying "I knew it" he gets the dumb a#% award.
On a lighter note, are all Cobra speedo's backwards?

[Troy]

Many Cobra kit cars are raced (on tracks) so they tend to be prone to wrecks. Not to mention the power-to-weight ratio is obscene and the cars are inherently squirreley so many that are street driven end up wrecked as well. That's why most classic car insurance companies refuse to insure them.

1BAD68: yes, I believe the originals (and therefore the clones) had speedometers that spun to the left - the opposite direction of the tach.

Troy

[terrible one]

That first one reminded me of this picture:

[Blown70]

That first one reminded me of this picture:

[Blown70]

Reminds me of this ding-dong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTEvJ2Tl8Ss

Well if YOU KNEW It then what the F-was your thought process in letting her drive and taking a vid of it...... What an A#$ hat

[bull]

Reminds me of this ding-dong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTEvJ2Tl8Ss

Well if YOU KNEW It then what the F-was your thought process in letting her drive and taking a vid of it...... What an A#$ hat

I guess the guy was hoping things would improve drastically over the next 30 seconds but I think most people would have stopped her a lot sooner. But who knows, she probably would have just run him over or dragged him for 50 yards had he tried to grab the keys.

[ZSmithersCharges]

Reminds me of this ding-dong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTEvJ2Tl8Ss

Well if YOU KNEW It then what the F-was your thought process in letting her drive and taking a vid of it...... What an A#$ hat

I guess the guy was hoping things would improve drastically over the next 30 seconds but I think most people would have stopped her a lot sooner. But who knows, she probably would have just run him over or dragged him for 50 yards had he tried to grab the keys.

Well then I guess you can atleast say "I tried" instead of sounding like a dumbass 

[Magnumcharger]

This car is good:
http://www.copart.com/c2/onSaleResults.html?_eventId=getLot&execution=e1s2&lotId=14086649#lotDetail

And here is a video I shot last summer, going for a ride in a friend's Factory Five Cobra.
It was not only fast...it was downright scary fast.
It has a supercharged 346 smallblock V-8....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ8fevzYRyY

And the picture at the bottom...from a vintage SCCA-style race....a real Cobra can get beat bad in an accident too....but the crumple differently than the kit Cobras!

[ZSmithersCharges]

And the picture at the bottom...from a vintage SCCA-style race....a real Cobra can get beat bad in an accident too....but the crumple differently than the kit Cobras!

That poor thing but, atleast it wasnt crashed in a parking lot 

[PocketThunder]

This car is good:
http://www.copart.com/c2/onSaleResults.html?_eventId=getLot&execution=e1s2&lotId=14086649#lotDetail

And here is a video I shot last summer, going for a ride in a friend's Factory Five Cobra.
It was not only fast...it was downright scary fast.
It has a supercharged 346 smallblock V-8....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ8fevzYRyY

And the picture at the bottom...from a vintage SCCA-style race....a real Cobra can get beat bad in an accident too....but the crumple differently than the kit Cobras!

Whats on the roof of that Camero on the left?

[Magnumcharger]

By the looks of it, it's a cowl induction hood.

[tan top]

dang  that white  challenger had a  hard hit  

[Mike DC]

                    

dang that white challenger had a hard hit  

What is it about white Challengers & high-speed frontal impacts?  Every time I see one on TV that's what happens to it.  It's almost as bad as 2nd-gen Chargers and jumps.  


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Cobra replicas just have way too much tire for most of these drivers to handle.  That kind of contact patch allows for a huge amount of G-forces piling up while it still holds on, and then suddenly it all lets go at once.  

There would be a lot fewer of these replicas piled up if the standard tire size had stayed as small as on Shelby's original 289 versions.  Honestly I think they would be more fun to drive that way, too.  
             

[Magnumcharger]

The very first 2008 Challenger with a front end pile-up was a white one.

I like Cobras when they're not given the S/C rollbar, sidepipes and hoodscoop. They look sedate, and very stylish!
Here's my (late) very lucky distant relative with his!

[Ghoste]

Cobra replicas just have way too much tire for most of these drivers to handle.  That kind of contact patch allows for a huge amount of G-forces piling up while it still holds on, and then suddenly it all lets go at once.

A tremendous amount of torque for such a short wheelbase too (remember the AA/ Fuel Altered's and Hemi Colts?).  A close friend of mine who has no small amount of experience driving high performance cars put a real 427 Cobra into a ditch.  He's never told me the complete unedited story (there was a girl with him so I KNOW there is more to the tale) but essentially when he was upshifting, the 427 overpowered the tires and by the time he knew it was going to swap ends there was no bringing it back.

[bull]

There would be a lot fewer of these replicas piled up if the standard tire size had stayed as small as on Shelby's original 289 versions.  Honestly I think they would be more fun to drive that way, too.  
             

Not to mention the vast cubic inch difference between the two. That much power in a car of that weight and design is a recipe for disaster.