Any experience with Cobra replicas?

[DaveB]

That's only a problem if you didn't spend all your retirement savings to buy/build it.

Not true, at least as far as ffr goes. I wrecked on track in one and all it did was hurt the fibre glass. Even the alignment was still good. I drove it back to the shop afterwards

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[DaveB]

I was strongly considering buying a Superformance Cobra with the aluminator engine, but there are a lot of great convertible V8s out there spanning the "performance" and "touring" spectrum, that are a lot of fun, and honestly a better finished product to me (unless you want to build it yourself, then that's pretty much irreplaceable).

My dad had a Factory Five 427, and at 6' tall, i never really fit into a cobra, and the shifted pedals made it very uncomfortable to drive more than 1/2 an hour.

That being said, I had a bit of the same struggle, so we added to our flock first with a ND Miata (which is a lot of fun to drive on small, twisty roads if you have them), and then replaced that with the LC500. This is not an advertisement for this car (it's definitely not for everyone), but suggesting you can look for alternatives. The Miata was a nice 2nd car to the 350, but this makes the wife happy and makes all of the right noises.

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They now have a mk v that allows a driver 6’5” 330 w/ size 14 shoe to fit comfortably