[DeTomaso] ebay replica Cobra

Kirby Schrader kirby.schrader at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 14:05:30 EDT 2011


Lance Stander is the current CEO.

Met him at Road America in 2009.


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> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]
> On
> Behalf Of MikeLDrew at aol.com
> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 12:49 PM
> To: adin at frontier.net; detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] ebay replica Cobra
>
>
> In a message dated 6/17/11 5 37 6, adin at frontier.net writes:
>
>
> > A fiberglass car might probably be a Superformance car to which is added
> > a CSX VIN number.
> >
>
> Not even close to true.
>
> What confuses the issue is that Lance (Standar?   Sp?) who is the CEO of
> Superformance, is also a Shelby dealer, and he sells the two cars
> side-by-side
> in his Irvine, CA headquarters.   But it's interesting to go visit (as I
> have) to witness the differences between them.
>
> Simply put, there is virtually no interchange between the two cars.
> Instruments, taillights etc. will swap over, but otherwise they are very
> different--even the windshields are completely different.
>
> The "Shelby" cars have true, proper, correct bodies, patterned after a
> genuine car, and the chassis is completely original save for upgraded
> components
> like Baer brakes (original brakes are available for a hefty sum).   The
> Superformance cars, while very nice in their own right, take numerous
> deviations from the original design, both in terms of the
> chassis/suspension
>
> (completely different from the original, and perhaps 'better'), and the
> body
> (which
> has a more pointed nose, shorter windshield, and a few other things).
>
> The Kirkham cars are basically PERFECT Shelby cars, while the Shelby cars
> are perhaps ever-so-slightly-less-than-perfect.   And the Superformance
> cars
>
> are great cars that look much like an original, unless you compare them to
> an original side-by-side at which point the differences start to stand out.
>
> Different strokes for different folks....
>
> Mike (rolling with an old-school 427-powered Contemporary Cobra)
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