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Cobra Ned

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Can anyone ID this museum car?
« on: January 11, 2022, 12:47:54 PM »
There is a red 427 Cobra in an unidentified vehicle museum. Can anyone here ID either the museum or the car?

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Re: Can anyone ID this museum car?
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2022, 06:28:39 PM »
I believe that was CSX3184 at the Saratoga Auto Museum. It was on display there in the spring of 2016.
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Re: Can anyone ID this museum car?
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2022, 06:38:56 PM »
Thanks, Sun Dude!

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Re: Can anyone ID this museum car?
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2022, 10:36:48 PM »
Nice work as always SunDude!

It certainly looks like a match.
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Re: Can anyone ID this museum car?
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2022, 08:31:16 AM »
Not your typical story behind that car. It was stolen, dumped in a river, discovered by accident, recovered, and fully rebuilt by two well-known names in the Cobra world, Chris Liebenberg and Geoff Howard.

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Re: Can anyone ID this museum car?
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2022, 02:45:16 PM »
"Dumped in a river."  What the hell is wrong with people?  You steal it because you want it, right?  Then you dump it in a river.  Whatever....
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« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2022, 03:59:13 PM »
"Dumped in a river."  What the hell is wrong with people?  You steal it because you want it, right?  Then you dump it in a river.  Whatever....

Criminals are sometimes referred to as dysfunctional sociopaths.

The guy stole the car and hit and killed a pedestrian with it and was wanted on a vehicular murder charge if I recall the story correctly.

Sam Prock who found it, I believe was a tow truck driver at the time and heard the story and the rumor that it was dumped off of a pier in the Hudson. Thought he new the spot, went diving and guess what he found?

There was something about the car being held as evidence by the Police for a while after it was recovered?

I met Sam about 100 years ago at a Cobra Club meeting in Sparta, NJ, at Buchheim's place. I think it was in 1876 or around there?
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« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2022, 07:58:44 PM »
It's interesting when a car for sale or at auction is described as having "no stories"...

Now THAT is an f'ing story!

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« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2022, 08:17:21 PM »
Last time i saw it it was looking like this ........ When i cut end off main tube  there was still water in it ! 

cool car nice owner !
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Re: Can anyone ID this museum car?
« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2022, 11:14:19 PM »
There was an article about the car in Hemmings Muscle Machines - October 2015.

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/1966-shelby-427-cobra

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Re: Can anyone ID this museum car?
« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2022, 12:45:06 PM »
Sam Prock's CSX 3184 is currently on display in the Mustang Owner's Museum in Concord, NC. It is a beautiful car. Sam did an excellent job of rebuilding the car many years ago and it still looks great today. I examined it in detail a month or two ago and it is outstanding. Sam is a great guy, too.

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Re: Can anyone ID this museum car?
« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2022, 09:35:50 PM »
Sam told me when the Hudson starts getting "filled up" with stolen vehicles they dredge it. The Cobra was pulled out with an excavator which put a couple of holes and bends in it. Sam was called in to identify it as a local Ford mechanic. There is a funny story about him buying the wreck, how much he paid and how much he told the missus he paid. It has been a real labor of love for him over more years than anyone spent restoring any Cobra I believe. Good guy, great car.