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Title: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: deathsled on April 12, 2020, 10:41:10 AM
https://www.fiskens.com/cars-for-sale/AC--Cobra-289/13546.htm
They have an incredible stash of cars for sale. I love this particular Cobra.
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: 557 on April 12, 2020, 11:23:47 AM
Bitchin...
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: Bigfoot on April 12, 2020, 01:47:16 PM
Sinister
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: Shelby_r_b on April 12, 2020, 03:00:31 PM
Awesome looking Cobra!
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: 1690 on April 12, 2020, 08:30:34 PM
Love the car.....LOVE the car, Love the history....Love that the pictures were taken in the foggy mist....needed to lose the cheesy air cleaner assembly....should have the correct one IMHO.

Wicked car.
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: 1690 on April 12, 2020, 08:39:07 PM
I saw it in person, in Monterey (2017), when it looked like this.

https://www.conceptcarz.com/profile/27933,835/1963-shelby-cobra-289.aspx

Striking car even then.
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: deathsled on April 12, 2020, 08:52:14 PM
That car is such a turn on!  The price seemed very right for it.  I need to look up the history in the Registry.  I agree that the air cleaner detracts from the prehistoric feel of this Cobra.  It looks like it ran webers in the 1960s.  Throw the webers back on I say.
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: BGlover67 on April 13, 2020, 12:39:03 AM
https://www.fiskens.com/cars-for-sale/AC--Cobra-289/13546.htm
They have an incredible stash of cars for sale. I love this particular Cobra.

You ain't kidding!  Check out the previously sold cars list:

https://www.fiskens.com/previously-sold/

If that doesn't get you excited, then you're dead.   :D
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: 557 on April 13, 2020, 02:00:02 AM
That car is such a turn on!  The price seemed very right for it.  I need to look up the history in the Registry.  I agree that the air cleaner detracts from the prehistoric feel of this Cobra.  It looks like it ran webers in the 1960s.  Throw the webers back on I say.
.    Throw the as raced wheel and tire sets back on it I SAY... 8)
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: Cobra Ned on April 15, 2020, 12:36:03 PM
Car was sold to Germany.
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: chris NOS on April 15, 2020, 01:20:28 PM
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/3872/KoN8NP.jpg)

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/4660/WrBrRo.jpg)

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/9397/o8OnZy.jpg)

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/5241/r8g25o.jpg)

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/7854/VGunbS.jpg)
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: The Going Thing on April 15, 2020, 01:22:01 PM
Stunning car! I think I can make room in my garage for it if anyone would like to donate it.
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: 427hunter on May 27, 2020, 11:40:42 AM
The Get Smart reference on the hood is priceless!
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: Cobra Ned on May 28, 2020, 12:56:43 PM
That's nothing. You should see the naughty photo of Barbara Eden under the hood.  :D
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: 557 on July 16, 2020, 01:30:13 PM
That's nothing. You should see the naughty photo of Barbara Eden under the hood.  :D
.  I would LOVE to.....
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: Greg on July 16, 2020, 02:51:50 PM
Did the cars run really well with 2x4's?
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: 427heaven on July 16, 2020, 03:02:07 PM
Yes they did..... Remember 55 years ago that was cutting edge technology. 2 fours or a stack of webbers was what the DR. ordered. Today a heavily messaged 750 DP  will tow most anything around the track. Technology has come a long way from the dark ages. But we love those days so leave everything alone, that one stimulates all the senses.
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: acman63 on July 16, 2020, 05:23:44 PM
why do they call thse cars  slab sides.  they are 260  or 289 cobras
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: JD on July 16, 2020, 09:50:33 PM
...maybe it has something to do with the fender edge treatment (flat vs compound rolled flares), and/or the lack of engine compartment fender vents  ?  Just a thought...
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: prototypefan on July 16, 2020, 10:04:53 PM
The AC Ace fits the definition better......no wheel lips.....that's slab side
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: Dan Case on July 17, 2020, 10:55:31 AM
The AC Ace fits the definition better......no wheel lips.....that's slab side

The term was coined, most historians agree, in the 1990s when somebody was describing the latest new replicar body style offering coming available.  For whatever reason instead of saying a replicar of a stock Cobra, they called out a "slabside" shape and not the “FIA” shape of the cut back door race cars (which were not all “FIA” prepared).  The name stuck for replicars and has since grown to include original Cobras EXCEPT the special competition cut back door race Cobras of 1964-65.  Some owners of original Cobras find the term distasteful if used to name a 1960s original Cobra of any in period variation factory or otherwise.
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: Side-Oilers on July 17, 2020, 02:53:30 PM
I have heard Carroll use the term.  Not sure when that first was, but that might mean something.
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: tesgt350 on July 17, 2020, 04:02:15 PM
That's nothing. You should see the naughty photo of Barbara Eden under the hood.  :D
That's nothing. You should see the naughty photo of Barbara Eden under the hood.  :D
.  I would LOVE to.....

How about one of her leaning on the hood of HER 69 Cobra Jet Mach 1?
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: CSX2075 on July 18, 2020, 02:22:38 AM
Just to give you an idea of how the car looks like today having it carefully brought back to the livery of its successful years with Chet Mcfallo.
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: chris NOS on July 18, 2020, 04:28:31 AM
Thank you , awesome !
Title: Re: Amazing 289 sold
Post by: mark p on July 18, 2020, 08:55:00 AM
Thank you , awesome !

+1
Great photo as well  8)