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Great story! Enjoy!

The Bullitt Mustang is my favorite too, but I also liked the modified Meyers Manx with the Corvair motor in The Thomas Crown Affair. Which has been restored and will be at Amelia in 2020.

Hmmm,the picture is kind of blurry, but #3 looks more like a street 427 to me. Note the gas cap location, rear fenders, and grille opening. CSX 2232 would have been a 289, the Cobra in the photo must have been another car if I am seeing it clearly.

Cobra radios (Ned's right, there were none with "readios) were an exercise in futility. As I understand it, they were originally aftermarket items intended for trucks, probably hung underneath the dash, hence the downward facing, inaudible speaker. One neat feature was that they were polarity-flexible; there was a small plug on the bottom that could be rotated and switch the radio from positive to negative ground so it could be used in vehicles with either polarity. Some said Cobra on the faceplate, others Motorola. I heard mine once, on a quiet evening at low speed. Then it quit, tried to get it fixed but radio repair shops just laughed at me.

Those heads would work for a 1964 model year Cobra. For example CSX 2186 was built by AC on September 30, 1963 and completed by SAI some time after that--those heads would have have been appropriate on that car and '64 Fairlanes.

Hmmm, I wonder how many were original Cobras and how many were Kobras built just to race?