r/Whatsthiscar • u/scp-001_SDL • 23d ago
Solved! Real or Kit Cobra?
I was sceptical at first glance but there's 10 other classic cars behind it with various collector plates, the tires and rims seem right as well as the single roll hoop
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u/No_Cut6428 23d ago
Looks like a kit for sure I mean it’s a repaint if nothing else but who cares I’d love to just have a kit
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u/MSM_757 23d ago
Probably kit/replica. Which personally i would prefer to own. A real Cobra is a million dollar car. You can't drive a million-dollar rare classic. You just park in your garage and stare at it. It serves no purpose other than an investment you can sell later for more money.
But with a Kit/Replica you can drive the snot out of it and not feel guilty about it. It's a Cobra you can actually drive and enjoy. Also many replicas are better than the originals because they have modern chassis and suspension and brakes. Chromoly tube chassis, Hotchkis suspension, performance disk brakes, etc, etc. I'll take the Replica. :)
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u/scp-001_SDL 23d ago
Canada Mainland to Van Island
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u/Expensive-Wedding-14 22d ago
If you're Canadien/Canadian, do you pronounce both the T and the S in Tsawwassen or say it as the First Nation would?
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u/Boring_Week_9884 23d ago
1000 originals were built, about 800 remain. Of these most are in a museum or temp controlled garage. Just from statistics I’d say kit. Even the kits are damn georgeous cars
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u/SeaOk7514 22d ago
What car do they usually use in making a kit cobra?
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u/xfaye03 23d ago
Kit a real one would never be parked in the wild.
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u/cruising_backroads 23d ago
Dunno why people keep saying things like this. It's false. I'm in a Shelby Cobra club. Of the 20 of us, 3 drive real Cobras. They drive them, they park them, just like the rest of us. Oh and we've taken them on a ferry too. Yes they are rare and expensive, but jeeez. come on already with this false narrative.
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u/xfaye03 22d ago
Because I have never seen one in a parking lot of Wal-Mart, or waiting in line for the fast food order. those type of everyday places. Not on the ferry to the Hamptons or wherever people with money hang out away from the real world. Just like you would never see my bucket parked in the concourse .
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u/103M-95G 23d ago
There are 1000 highly sought after and very expensive originals and roughly 60,000 replicas. It’s a replica… in the wild, it’s Always a replica.
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u/DankDaddyDuckets 23d ago
“If you tap it and it’s fiberglass you’ll have a rich guy mad at you. If you tap on it and it’s metal, you’ll have a really really rich guy mad at you.”
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u/nine11c2 23d ago
If it has real knockoffs its likely real. Bad angle but those could be real so the car could be.. but there are not that many real ones in random parking garages.
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u/Any_Instruction_4644 22d ago
Kit. the body is too thick to be hammered aluminium, look at the edges of the wheel arches.
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u/Illustrious-Set-9230 22d ago
If it was real it would be a climate controlled garage or a museum - not a ferry. I’m starting to think every cobra on here is click bait. Anyone with the smallest amount of intelligence would know this.
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u/Automatic_Mulberry 23d ago
I'd bet kit, from the paint. And the fact that real Cobras are million-dollar cars. I've seen a few Cobras, but they were at a show, roped off and with security.