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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.
.


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

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:36?PM Peter Mahaits via <Astro=[email protected]> wrote:
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
.
 

Pete, old friend, I'm sorry to see you're parting with your car. You can email me at gregkampen@.... to catch up.
 

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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 groups.io wrote:

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.
.


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

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:36?PM Peter Mahaits via <Astro=[email protected]> wrote:
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
.
 

Sounds to me like it was Lime Gold Metallic.

Will
Denver, CO

On Jan 14, 2025 8:26 PM, "Tony Avak via groups.io" <avakar@...> wrote:
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 groups.io wrote:
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.
.


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

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:36?PM Peter Mahaits via <Astro=[email protected]> wrote:
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
.
 


Up to '68 paint code: " I " was called "Lime Gold". And Ford # 2041-A (per my Marty Report).

IIRC after '68 model year the " I " paint code was called "Lime Metallic" for/till at least '70 model year.

I have attached a pic (sorry for the low rez quality) of a PPG paint chip page for '68 Fords.

Also of note IIRC T-Bird and Lincoln had different names for at least some of the same paint colors as used on Ford products. Though T-Bird and Lincoln did have some specific colors that were ONLY listed available for them.

Back around then both GM/Chevy and Mopar had a paint color close to Ford's Lime Gold, I would say GM's was closer and Mopars looked a little "dirtier" compared to Ford's.

The "Lime Gold" looks way better than the "Pea Soup" reference (which I have heard before).

One last note. The "Legend Lime" Ford used on the new 2005 Mustangs (and later on some other Fords) IS CLOSE to the original "Lime Gold" BUT is NOT the same. I would say it is a bit brighter than the old Lime Gold.

David from WNY
On Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:04:57 PM EST, Will via groups.io <wl1968@...> wrote:


Sounds to me like it was Lime Gold Metallic.

Will
Denver, CO

On Jan 14, 2025 8:26 PM, "Tony Avak via groups.io" <avakar@...> wrote:
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 groups.io wrote:
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.
.


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

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 8:36?PM Peter Mahaits via <Astro=[email protected]> wrote:
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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