I'm trying to figure out what color the
car was originally.? From your description I'm guessing that it
was Dark Ivy Green (metallic, also known as Black Jade Poly, paint
code C).? Can you read the code off the body plate and confirm
this?? Now I'm curious.? I was researching Cobra colors a while
ago for a friend with a body shop and printed out that information
someone had compiled on-line from Marti Reports and just happened
to have it handy right now.? Black Jade was the most popular color
of the Hardtop Cobras, 690 of the 3,786 vehicles were done in this
color.? Oddly, the second most popular color was Candy Apple Red
at 681.? I would have guessed red for first place.? The numbers
drop dramatically after that with Indian Fire at 411, Lime Gold at
241, Wimbledon White at 239 and Gulfstream Aqua at 222.? All the
other colors are less than 200 each.
Tony
On 1/14/2025 9:48 PM, Peter Mahaits via
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Hi Jay,
The original color is a pea soup green with a bit of metalflake in
it. Not sure of official name.
The current paint has pearl in it so it changes color with
different light.
The car had 10,000 miles on it when I got it in 1983, I put on
another 10,000.
The car was drag raced for a number of years and was towed to and
from the strip. No,
it was never tubbed for huge rear tires.
It was the second owner, Steve, who raced it. I'm the 4th owner so
Steve never had
any reason to lie to me about what he did with the engine.
He used a solid lifter cam, (which I have), but now has an unknown
hydraulic cam in it.
I have a NOS Ford Motor Sports hydraulic cam for it that's a bit
hotter than stock.
It's been bored 30 thou so I figure it's now a 433.
The heads have been cc'd. I had the valve guides redone.
Steve's wife told me that the connecting rods have been polished
to the point where
you can see yourself in them as the only way she could spend time
with her husband
was to polish connecting rods.
It has TRW forged pistons.
It's been balanced.
It has the adjustable rocker arms on it. I never did get them
properly adjusted.
I got them from Steve. It had the standard rockers on it when I
got it.
It had an 8 pound flywheel on it. I put a heavier McLeod flywheel
on it.
It has a Lakewood Scattershield on it.
It has the original 735cfm Holley carb on it. It sits on the Ford
Sidewinder
aluminum intake manifold, if memory serves me its a C6AE 9424/J
The distributor has had the vacuum advance removed and the
centrifugal
weights are curved for racing. I have a replacement distributor
for it.
I also have way too many extra parts for it to list in this reply.
Some of them are made of unobtanium. LOL
Hope this answers your question.
Pete from the Loops.
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On 2025-01-13 6:25 p.m., jay Rush via
groups.io wrote:
Pete, I may be interested. What was the original
color and tell me more about the engine. My first new car was
a 69 GT 390 4spd formal roof in lime gold.
Jay
Hi
folks,
I'm putting my 1969 Cobra Formal Roof up for sale.
20,000 miles.
No body work required.
Excellent custom paint.
4 speed Ram Air.
Many many spare parts, too many to list here.
See pics below.
Asking $35,000 Canadian, about $24,000 USD.
It's been sitting for about 15 years.
Been stored inside for over 95% of it's life.
Needs maintenance.
Pete from the Loops, That's Kamloops B.C., Canada
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