Bordinat Cobra concept

[cobraman]

First a bit of history . 1963 Shelby Bordinat Cobra concept roadster / CS 3001 .  Two concept cars were built . The Cougar ll , a coupe and this roadster called the Bordinat  Cobra . This car was also referred to as the XP Cobra . It had a 289 engine with a C4 auto . Body was vacuum formed of a new plastic called Royalex . Three bodies like this were made . One for the concept car and the other two just disappeared . Some reports say this car never ran . Both cars were discovered in a warehouse in Detroit and restored .                                                The model . Started with the Lindberg kit of the Cougar ll. Since I was going to remove a large section of the body I glued the doors shut . After the roof was removed I filled in the resulting hole with sheet plastic . From there it was puttied and sanded and primed . I painted it with Tamiya silver and was not really happy but I never seem to get a good finish with silver . It was also cleared . I had to use the stock tires and wheels which was another disappointment . I had some very nice wires and ww tires but it turned out they were just too tall to fit . I had some goofs and this project did not turn out as good as I had wanted and hoped but they seldom do . Overall for me this ain’t too bad . 

[1930fordpickup]

Very Cool Ray. Nice work. 

[Intmd8r]

Well done!

[Belugawrx]

Very nicely done Ray ??

[charger74]

Very nice

[DonW]

Well executed. Beautiful car, it reminds me of Ton Tjaarda's Chevy Corvette based Rondine:

 

[afx]

Great job Ray, turned out nice.

[Gramps46]

Congratulations Ray you got it done and it will be very unique on the shelf.

[keyser]

Great build of gorgeous car.

Turned out better than the project I've never started would ever dream to be

Great build thread too. 

[Rich Chernosky]

Outstanding build Ray and thanks for taking us through it step by step. I liked the history too. 

[bh1701]

Looks good! Congrats!

Bart

[AmericanMuscleFan]

You did a great job on the body Ray, it's unique and you won't see a lot of this concept car at the next model car contest.  Well done sir!

[Phildaupho]

Great project resulting in a very unique and attractive model.

[cobraman]

Thank you all very much !

[cobraman]

I just noticed I forgot to install the wheel spinners.

[Dave B]

Great build Ray, that is something different!!

Dave B

[cobraman]

Thank you Dave.

[Plowboy]

Very cool little model Ray! It looks so much better without the roof! 

[Dann Tier]

I think this turned out FANTASTIC!!!

[cobraman]

Thanks guys. I think I should have repainted it but I didn't know what would happen if I tried to strip it with the putty on the body.

[Koellefornia Kid]

I´ve never heard of this car until I came across your thread. Nice work, I think it looks much better than the Cougar II !

[AmericanMuscleFan]

27 minutes ago, cobraman said:

Thanks guys. I think I should have repainted it but I didn't know what would happen if I tried to strip it with the putty on the body.

Leave it like this Ray It's really nice!  Every time I have stripped the paint on one of my model, (using Easy-Off oven cleaner) the putty stipped off too and I had to start over.  Maybe someone knows a miracle product that can only remove the paint?

[PappyD340]

Very nice!

[bobthehobbyguy]

Cool. Unusual subject. Looks fine to me. I'm fairly sure you would have had to redo the body work if you stripped it.

[cobraman]

Thank you much guys. I actually wanted to do this for a long time because I really like this car and no kit is out there. I only found a 1/43 diecast for about 100 bucks.