well, I want to share with u today experience.
At the end o the street where my shop is placed there is a new car dealer usually selling used sportscars (easy to find there many used Ferrari and almost all commercial Porsches).
Sometimes the guy dares to sell also "other" cars as Noble or TVR, with some success cause anyway Milano is still a good place where sell expensive cars.
When I walk over his showcases there is always something cool to see (also if just to see) and when he has time I spend some minutes in talking to him,also if I wellknow in such places is easy to be full of wannabees and tyre kickers.
This time my heart was stolen by a blue Cobra,in the classic american livery (took also some pictures of it, but cant post here cause I'm in the shop right now),and this time i really cant go on and HAD to ask (u guys dunno HOW rares are our cars down here...u really cant immagine it.
).
The rarity of such car anyway also involves a big mess in car description (at the beginning he told the car was an original,as usual.....u know),after some minutes we found it is a Contemporary Classic car (think is a good replica then,also if my knowledge on Cobras is not as about the gt40s..).
The engine was a 427 (but in the meaning the headers were plated with 427 tag),at my ask about the shifter..the guy simply answerd "original".
U know is hard to enter a cardealer presenting something so special as a Cobra is here and show him u maybe know a little more than him about a car he is selling.
I really wasnt able to recognize the engine if really a 427 or not.I was sure the carburator was an edelbrock.
All discussion anyway dramatically stopped when he turned on the engine, being a v8 (can be also just a 302 or a 351, but when your illness is at my levels the brain simply disconnct and hearts pump as never before..damn it!) I simply shut up and loved it (my brain anyway was repeating me in loop..Paolo..its just a NORMAL american pretty Cobra..nothing matter with your GT40..thats a LOT much more special stuff).
I also had the opportunity to give a look at the streetable italian documents,cause the car already featured an italian 2007 plate,and I was surprised cause neither authorities know how to register it (documents were referring to a generic 1965 Mustang fastback)
Will no be surprised if the car get a registration under some special extra payment..u know.
Nearly surely (being this an american Cobra with our side driving)the vehicle was imported by someone doing all the mess to make it streetable here and THEN resold to this dealer,surely working on the rarirty of this nice car.
Dunno the value in US for a nice Contemporary Classic, simply consider here the car is for sale at 85.000 euros =130.000 usd.
If I had such amount now for a car,I think I will go for Robin Batt's GTD for sale now.The price is the same,the car is a little different....
U clearly see it is better....much more better to learn the car and manage all alone (is legal to enter USA with 40.000 dollars cash guys?)
Down here our cars are really something u have to manage absolutely alone (and in this helps the fact cars as cobra and gt40s are quite simple in mechanic,if compared to ANY other modern car).
Surely all this is a fee to pay for the presence of Ferrari and a too old law system about special vehicles (the road/insurance documents seems coming from 1920, and are printed in 2007...)
Just want to say a BIG thank u to all this comunity to learn me everyday so much about "the way" in the nicest and affordable cars in the world.
When will be my time (and I hope one day this can happen),will use all what I am learning here day by day.,also if I already noted our cars pass from friend to friend....maybe in different contries.
Cobra pictures will follow soon....(still have the engine sound in my heart..and was JUST a Cobra..)
At the end o the street where my shop is placed there is a new car dealer usually selling used sportscars (easy to find there many used Ferrari and almost all commercial Porsches).
Sometimes the guy dares to sell also "other" cars as Noble or TVR, with some success cause anyway Milano is still a good place where sell expensive cars.
When I walk over his showcases there is always something cool to see (also if just to see) and when he has time I spend some minutes in talking to him,also if I wellknow in such places is easy to be full of wannabees and tyre kickers.
This time my heart was stolen by a blue Cobra,in the classic american livery (took also some pictures of it, but cant post here cause I'm in the shop right now),and this time i really cant go on and HAD to ask (u guys dunno HOW rares are our cars down here...u really cant immagine it.
).The rarity of such car anyway also involves a big mess in car description (at the beginning he told the car was an original,as usual.....u know),after some minutes we found it is a Contemporary Classic car (think is a good replica then,also if my knowledge on Cobras is not as about the gt40s..).
The engine was a 427 (but in the meaning the headers were plated with 427 tag),at my ask about the shifter..the guy simply answerd "original".
U know is hard to enter a cardealer presenting something so special as a Cobra is here and show him u maybe know a little more than him about a car he is selling.
I really wasnt able to recognize the engine if really a 427 or not.I was sure the carburator was an edelbrock.
All discussion anyway dramatically stopped when he turned on the engine, being a v8 (can be also just a 302 or a 351, but when your illness is at my levels the brain simply disconnct and hearts pump as never before..damn it!) I simply shut up and loved it (my brain anyway was repeating me in loop..Paolo..its just a NORMAL american pretty Cobra..nothing matter with your GT40..thats a LOT much more special stuff).
I also had the opportunity to give a look at the streetable italian documents,cause the car already featured an italian 2007 plate,and I was surprised cause neither authorities know how to register it (documents were referring to a generic 1965 Mustang fastback)
Will no be surprised if the car get a registration under some special extra payment..u know.
Nearly surely (being this an american Cobra with our side driving)the vehicle was imported by someone doing all the mess to make it streetable here and THEN resold to this dealer,surely working on the rarirty of this nice car.
Dunno the value in US for a nice Contemporary Classic, simply consider here the car is for sale at 85.000 euros =130.000 usd.
If I had such amount now for a car,I think I will go for Robin Batt's GTD for sale now.The price is the same,the car is a little different....
U clearly see it is better....much more better to learn the car and manage all alone (is legal to enter USA with 40.000 dollars cash guys?)
Down here our cars are really something u have to manage absolutely alone (and in this helps the fact cars as cobra and gt40s are quite simple in mechanic,if compared to ANY other modern car).
Surely all this is a fee to pay for the presence of Ferrari and a too old law system about special vehicles (the road/insurance documents seems coming from 1920, and are printed in 2007...)
Just want to say a BIG thank u to all this comunity to learn me everyday so much about "the way" in the nicest and affordable cars in the world.
When will be my time (and I hope one day this can happen),will use all what I am learning here day by day.
,also if I already noted our cars pass from friend to friend....maybe in different contries.Cobra pictures will follow soon....(still have the engine sound in my heart..and was JUST a Cobra..
)
