So who remembers this Cobra on ebay?

[Whitten]

I know that alot of you out there spend time creeping around on Ebay checking for a good deal on a nice new 03, but do any of ya'll remember this car?
Ebay Link

Well if so my good friend in my local car club bought the car and his father rebuilt the car all the way through. They are both master techs...which really cool since Charlie..my buddie is also the one of the leaders of our Formula SAE team who is also 3rd in the world right now.....anyway.

So here is the progress told through pictures.

And here is the link to our little site.
LINK to COBRA

 

[mike79]

Wow thats awesome. How long did it take to do that?

 

[sam]

very nice save.

 

[Ystang99gt]

wow that is awesome!! Your friend did a great job on that car

 

[o3SnakeBite]

Good as new... Hows it ride?

 

[dougwg]

That is very cool!

 

[rezcobra]

Those body panels line up better than stock...wow!!! Good work.

 

[Whitten]

Nice huh....Charlie and his father do some great work on cars. Charlie has a Mavrick that is sweet as all get out, and also a turbo t-bird that was roled three times at interstate speed and looks better than show room new. All in all I am really excited about how good the car looks, and as an added bonus one of the guys in our car club bought an 04 Comp orange and has gotten Charlie hooked on it. All that is left to do now is get the car approved for street use, title it, and then burn rubber. Hopefully, he will be roling around in that car come this September when we all get back to school.

The total amount of time it took to rebuild the car....I honestly don't know, but I know that he got the car in either early june or late may and has been pieceing it together here and there.

 

[rmgtc01]

It's Alive!!....ALIVE!!!!!!!

 

[1 bad bullitt]

Looks great, did you make sure you duplicated all the orange peel on the great factory ford paint jobs, lol

I'm sure that car looks too good now! Awesome, is it a Salvage titled car or is it still clean title?

 

[Whitten]

It will be a salvage titled car if I am not mistaken.
And wouldn't you know it, when you go to auto color...sikkens, and even PPG make a paint color called Factory Orange Peel <enter color name> hahaha.

Your right though the body panals do line up better, and he sprayed the car better in his wetted floor of his garage than Ford did in the 30 million dollar automated painting facility.

 

[KiLLaBytE]

wow! that's better than new except for the salvage title!

car looks PERFECT! i bet there's not orange peel in the paint, either.

 

[stang03svtcobra]

the title dont mean crap if your going to keep it....

 

[KiLLaBytE]

true, but bad things happen.

say the guy lost his job and was forced to sell the cobra... he unfortunately wouldn't get much for it if the buyer did his/her research.

 

[stang03svtcobra]

well i dunno how things are in your state but here in ohio u can finance a slvage car... so i would think its paid off.... so thus any thing he sells for wouldnt be bad

 

[RedSquad7]

Those guys ARE F'in masters!!! people that have those skills and can do that kinda work at home blow me away!!

 

[08snake]

Awesome story, thanks for sharing.....

 

[ghostrydyr]

Damnnn great job!

I see they even had to cut the driver quarte panel. They nust have gotten a great deal. If I had to do it all over again I would have gone that route. I do plan on keeping the car so title would not matter much to me.

 

[Juiced-03]

WOW thats very impressive!! I agree with ghostryder, that is probably a car they will keep a a very long time, so who cares about the title. No one has to know about it but them. Hell, that car looks as good as new. Does it track straight? I know a lot of cars that been through that kind of restoration never drive straight and pull to the right or left.

Looks great!!

 

[Friendchicken]

What was the cost of the parts and the car?