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Love the color. I use bare metal foil to cover the emblems then carefully scrape the paint and foil after the paint has dried for a week. Painting the Cobra and 427 Emblems take a lot of patience but it is doable. I built this one 20 years ago so it is a little dusty.post-13094-0-32803600-1402877179_thumb.j

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Always a pleasure to see another Cobra ! As most of the fellows here know I kinda, sorta, have a fondness for Cobra's. Keep er' goin' .

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One of the 427 kits has wire wheels but of course hardly anyone with a real 427 Cobra would drive on the street with them as they could not handle the torque. You typically only see them on a stock 260 or 289 Cobra. Some black wash in the wheels would bring out the spokes.

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The first driverless Cobra? The wheel can look big compared to the car because the car is small except next to a Mini Cooper. Does it take some muscle to drive the car at low speed - yes. Could I swap the wheel for a smaller one - yes. Do I like mine just the way it is - yes? Do I like the Daytona Coupe parked in front of mine? ;)

I'd put some sort of steering wheel on it from some kind of Ford but that's me. :D

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Nice build, very good paint work. I'm working on that kit now and swapping out the wheels isn't easy, as the ones I have required surgery on the wheel stubs and the wheel hubs. Sometimes simple is best.

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