Check this out...CObra vs Grand sport video!!
10-10-2008, 07:33 PM
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Check this out...CObra vs Grand sport video!!
Awesome!
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6qux...eature=related
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phGwb...eature=related
ENJOY!
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6qux...eature=related
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phGwb...eature=related
ENJOY!
10-10-2008, 08:23 PM
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Excellent, and well-produced; the Mongoose is essentially the current version of the D&D Grand Sport replica - I've built one, and so has Jim Lockwood; Jim still has his, and races it regularly. Couldn't tell which Cobra replica that was - there are about 30 different ones out there; I've built an E.R.A. and two Uniques. Great performance from the Mongoose, especially considering it's a closed car with air conditioning and weighs more than the Cobra replica. 
10-10-2008, 08:26 PM
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I loved it, put a BIG smile on my face. 
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10-10-2008, 08:36 PM
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10-10-2008, 08:57 PM
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The torch may have been passed yesterday at an all-Corvette track day at Thunderhill, John.
My son, who had only one prior track day under his belt, drove my car for five sessions.
Against an assortment of C5s and C6s, NO ONE passed him and in every session, he lapped the field.
Sticky tires and a killer engine? Neither. He redlined the engine at 5200 RPM (per my request) for reliability, and he drove on worn out bias ply tires that had 24 prior heat cycles.
Yep, today, I'm Proud Papa.
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10-10-2008, 09:02 PM
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I could'nt understand a word...so i turned off the volume and just enjoyed the video..
10-10-2008, 09:49 PM
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Great Videos
Thanks for the links
George
Thanks for the links
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10-10-2008, 11:29 PM
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Nope, not for me!
First, I neither speak nor understand that schtict language.
I don't like those kind of videos where the scene is CONSTANTLY changing every split second-----------------I like to see a little length to a scene.
And last, I HATE it when video of machinery (race cars, P51 Mustangs, steam locomotives, drag boats, etc, etc, etc) is drowned out by music. You go to a race track, you don't hear that darned music---------------------why do they ALWAYS have to drown out the sounds of the machinery with music?????????????????? I'll never understand it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nope, not my kind of video----------------it's crap!
Here is a brief example.
You won't hear any music ruining the sound of the machinery, plus the scene is not jumping around all over the place every split second-----------------you can hear it clearly and you can watch it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vFvr5CTkSo
First, I neither speak nor understand that schtict language.
I don't like those kind of videos where the scene is CONSTANTLY changing every split second-----------------I like to see a little length to a scene.
And last, I HATE it when video of machinery (race cars, P51 Mustangs, steam locomotives, drag boats, etc, etc, etc) is drowned out by music. You go to a race track, you don't hear that darned music---------------------why do they ALWAYS have to drown out the sounds of the machinery with music?????????????????? I'll never understand it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nope, not my kind of video----------------it's crap!
Here is a brief example.
You won't hear any music ruining the sound of the machinery, plus the scene is not jumping around all over the place every split second-----------------you can hear it clearly and you can watch it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vFvr5CTkSo
10-11-2008, 12:29 AM
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That Wildcat engine WAS music, to my ears!
Anyway, John Z, you said there are many Cobra replicas out there. I suppose that anything built after the factory stopped manufacture would be considered such. Recently I was invited to DenBeste Motorsports in Windsor, CA, to see his collection of Cobras and other cars. Carroll Shelby actually goes there and signs off on the engines and other particulars, if I remember it correctly. I was so awed by the cars there that I wasn't paying 100% attention. Would those still be considered relicas or genuine? I guess I forgot to ask the owner's son who gave the tour that question. What's the opinion here?
10-11-2008, 06:38 AM
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I like it, that You look german TV. The cobra/corvette challenge was from my favorite TV show called D-Motor.
The cobra is a german product (exept of the Z06 engine) from CN Cobra (http://www.cobra-cn.de/).
The driver, Sabine Schmitz, of the Cobra is a german racer. She is the driver of the "Ring-Taxi", where you get the passenger seat of a sportscar to test the Nürburgring-Nordschleife with race-speed. Most of the male passengers are very loud before the lap and are very quiet and white faced after the lap. Sabine knows every pebble of the racetrack and is very fast there.
Matthias
PS: here is the link for sabine http://www.sabine-schmitz-motorsport.de/
The cobra is a german product (exept of the Z06 engine) from CN Cobra (http://www.cobra-cn.de/).
The driver, Sabine Schmitz, of the Cobra is a german racer. She is the driver of the "Ring-Taxi", where you get the passenger seat of a sportscar to test the Nürburgring-Nordschleife with race-speed. Most of the male passengers are very loud before the lap and are very quiet and white faced after the lap. Sabine knows every pebble of the racetrack and is very fast there.
Matthias
PS: here is the link for sabine http://www.sabine-schmitz-motorsport.de/
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10-11-2008, 11:59 AM
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I like it, that You look german TV. The cobra/corvette challenge was from my favorite TV show called D-Motor.
The cobra is a german product (exept of the Z06 engine) from CN Cobra (http://www.cobra-cn.de/).
The driver, Sabine Schmitz, of the Cobra is a german racer. She is the driver of the "Ring-Taxi", where you get the passenger seat of a sportscar to test the Nürburgring-Nordschleife with race-speed. Most of the male passengers are very loud before the lap and are very quiet and white faced after the lap. Sabine knows every pebble of the racetrack and is very fast there.
Matthias
PS: here is the link for sabine http://www.sabine-schmitz-motorsport.de/
The cobra is a german product (exept of the Z06 engine) from CN Cobra (http://www.cobra-cn.de/).
The driver, Sabine Schmitz, of the Cobra is a german racer. She is the driver of the "Ring-Taxi", where you get the passenger seat of a sportscar to test the Nürburgring-Nordschleife with race-speed. Most of the male passengers are very loud before the lap and are very quiet and white faced after the lap. Sabine knows every pebble of the racetrack and is very fast there.
Matthias
PS: here is the link for sabine http://www.sabine-schmitz-motorsport.de/
10-11-2008, 12:19 PM
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Thanks for the info Matthias. She is quite an accomplished race driver, "The queen of the ring".
I drove it about fifteen years ago in a rented 300E five speed. Back then there were far fewer cars cars on the track, you could really have some fun. I thought I was really motoring when this seven-series full of people glides up behind me, I let him pass and figure I'll follow him around, there were at least five or six people in that car, but I still couldn't stay with him for more than a couple of corners... The original ring taxi?
Here is a cool vid I found from a few years back, shot from a 966 GT3 following her for a lap as she drives the "Ring Taxi".
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...69452162988713
I like her quote "Never enter Karussell when on the brakes! I have gone round there on the roof, I know what I'm talking about." My kind of woman!
Paul
I drove it about fifteen years ago in a rented 300E five speed. Back then there were far fewer cars cars on the track, you could really have some fun. I thought I was really motoring when this seven-series full of people glides up behind me, I let him pass and figure I'll follow him around, there were at least five or six people in that car, but I still couldn't stay with him for more than a couple of corners... The original ring taxi?
Here is a cool vid I found from a few years back, shot from a 966 GT3 following her for a lap as she drives the "Ring Taxi".
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...69452162988713
I like her quote "Never enter Karussell when on the brakes! I have gone round there on the roof, I know what I'm talking about." My kind of woman!
Paul
10-11-2008, 01:41 PM
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Tom was the "Mongoose" because Don Prudhomme was the "Snake". Supposedly the only animal that can kill a Cobra is a mongoose. Sounds like they chose the same snake/mongoose metaphor that served McEwen/Prudhomme so well way back then.
Were the original Grand Sports ever referred to as mongooses back when?
Paul
Were the original Grand Sports ever referred to as mongooses back when?
Paul
10-11-2008, 02:40 PM
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Nope, not for me!
First, I neither speak nor understand that schtict language.
I don't like those kind of videos where the scene is CONSTANTLY changing every split second-----------------I like to see a little length to a scene.
And last, I HATE it when video of machinery (race cars, P51 Mustangs, steam locomotives, drag boats, etc, etc, etc) is drowned out by music. You go to a race track, you don't hear that darned music---------------------why do they ALWAYS have to drown out the sounds of the machinery with music?????????????????? I'll never understand it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nope, not my kind of video----------------it's crap!
Here is a brief example.
You won't hear any music ruining the sound of the machinery, plus the scene is not jumping around all over the place every split second-----------------you can hear it clearly and you can watch it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vFvr5CTkSo
First, I neither speak nor understand that schtict language.
I don't like those kind of videos where the scene is CONSTANTLY changing every split second-----------------I like to see a little length to a scene.
And last, I HATE it when video of machinery (race cars, P51 Mustangs, steam locomotives, drag boats, etc, etc, etc) is drowned out by music. You go to a race track, you don't hear that darned music---------------------why do they ALWAYS have to drown out the sounds of the machinery with music?????????????????? I'll never understand it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nope, not my kind of video----------------it's crap!
Here is a brief example.
You won't hear any music ruining the sound of the machinery, plus the scene is not jumping around all over the place every split second-----------------you can hear it clearly and you can watch it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vFvr5CTkSo
10-11-2008, 03:07 PM
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