By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Here’s some great stories written by the CarDomain community:

• The Lexus LFA. Can you think of a better way to spend $375K?
• First look at the new Disney/Pixar Cars 2 characters “Grem” and “Acer.” AMC love!
• Hot Rod Magazine pits a 427 Cobra against a 2011 Super Snake. Who do you think wins?

All this and more over at Autoholics.com.

By Mark Gearhart

powerTV Media

Most of us have, at one time or another, considered undertaking a project that was likely beyond our abilities. Maybe it was a muscle car too far gone with rust, but its rarity and completeness convinced us to give it a shot. Or perhaps we tried to build the ultimate man-cave, and instead wound up with a shed for the kids’ pool toys. But gearheads are a dedicated bunch, and for every half-baked idea and half-finished project, there is a car that defies the odds and is resurrected by those with the gusto to do so.

Tim Roi at SCT put us on to a project on the Greater Toronto Area Mustang Club that even we would have dismissed as a total loss. But Jeremy Clutterbuck and his father Larry saw this John X Cobra kit car, which was involved in a fire, and they saw a potential project they could do on the cheap.

Jeremy and his father have always been car guys, but tended to fall in the “cut a check and have someone else do the work” category. “I have a Mustang convertible, and I’ve paid to have bodywork and suspension components put on it. But I never did any of the work myself, so I never really formed an attachment to it,” he said. Jeremy wanted to do a project with his father that they could do together, themselves. Carpenters by trade, they figured that if they could build a house (and a four car garage for the Mustang and their Corvette).

For the full story, check it out on StangTV.com.

Pictures: Jeremy Clutterbuck

Continue reading "Father and Son Duo Rebuild a Burnt Cobra" »

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Today’s pic is from Willie’s Ford SVT Cobra Mustang ride page. New arrivals at Fort Bliss!

By Tony Castellano

Tcassa

Hundreds of American muscle cars were on display in the heart of Melbourne, Australia this past Sunday. The day long event, appropriately titled the American Motoring Show, included some of the finest iron this side of the Pacific. Rods, replica Cobras, Studebakers, and countless Pony cars to name a few were all fighting for the passing attention, with my favorite being a beautiful 1934 California Kid tribute. With a relaxed atmosphere, this turned out to be one great show! Loads of pics after the jump!

Continue reading "Muscle in Melbourne" »

By Fireball Tim

Movie Car Design Master

C…. Stands for cool. Or maybe crunchie. But seeing as how this is about cars, crunchie makes no sense whatsoever. Cool, eh? See how I just whipped that out?

Cars. Cartomobiles. Ooo. That’s a word. You ever wonder how car companies come up with their names? Like Continental? Corniche? Cordoba?

Wait. I’ve got one. … Cooltinental. And so… here are some Cooltinental C’s.

Name ‘em, and win a Million Doolareshlattens!!

Continue reading "Fireball’s Alphabet of Awesomeness… The C’s" »

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

I love the Shelby Cobra, but have always preferred the original slabside cars to the big 427 cars that dominate the kit car market. I was very excited when I heard that Factory Five was going to do a slabside, but I guess that plan got shelved when the economy went south. But now it looks like ERA is gonna offer a slabside kit. These are quite a bit more expensive than the Factory Five kits, but the quality is superb. So I guess I’m just gonna have to save up a bit longer! Learn more about this new slabside Cobra kit at erareplicas.com.

By Dan Strohl

Hemmings

Though listed as a “1953 Unspecified” on Hemmings.com, I was able to turn up a little bit more about this fiberglass-bodied roadster built by brothers Wally and Harry Hansen of Inglewood, California. Commonly called the Hansen Cobra, they only built two such examples: this one, for sale out of Hermitage, Pennsylvania, for $75,000; and another in the Petersen Automotive Museum that Geoff Hacker spotted on a recent trip to Southern California. One of the two also appeared in the 1959 movie Roadracers, which featured the tagline “Screeching Hell on Wheels … is it Sport or Murder?!” Continue reading at Hemmings

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle and one of the richest guys in the world, went to Kirkham Motorsports and asked them to build the ultimate, cost is no object Cobra. The result? A car will a billet chassis. Go to the Kirkham site to download the book (in PDF format) documenting the build.

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Jalopnik has a nice little writeup on the first Shelby Cobra, currently owned by Bruce Meyer in California. I still think that these old slab sides look better than the big 427 cars.

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

This is chassis CSX2601, the fourth of six built, and the winner of three FIA races. It goes to auction May 15. Think it’s worth $10 million? More? Will it set a world record?