Now that I think about it, it was 1967 when I PO'd the wife by buying mine.
The sticker price was $3650, or something very close to that. I talked them
down to $3550 or so. It was red; the rollbar was black, and it rumbled loud.
I kept it just over a year and sold it for about what I paid for it. It was a
killer to drive, kinda like a buckboard with a runaway team, but it sure was
fun. And being an old, semi-senile fart with a faulty memory, I'm probably
wrong, but I seem to recall it being a 429. Whatever it was, it sounded great
and could get from here to there before anybody knew you were gone. Ate
Corvettes for breakfast, and the ladies loved it. I think the fact it vibrated
like a Harley and rode like a horse may have had something to do with that.
Sigh!
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "James N. McBride" <jnmcbr@xxxxxxx>
>
> A man near here has an original 427 Cobra. It is now worth $400,000 US. His
> son would like to drive it to school but it ain't gonna happen. /jmac
>
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