I've owned over 70 cars and one of my favorites, out of all of them, was my 1962 Austin Healey 3000 Mk 2 with the triple carb setup (one year only), white with black coves, red interior, black soft top, black hardtop, silver wire wheels .... lovely car. Drove it for three years while I flew jets for the RCAF, then took it back to Montreal where it proved impractical for the harsh Quebec winters. Sold it to someone in the states. Still loved owning it for five years.
Thank-you for your service, and then as Petrol Ped wrote,..."Awesome"!!! My Dad had a TR3 in the Sixties, we had it up until my brother was born in 1972 (I was born in 67) was such a fun car!
I'm from Massachusetts. Whenever I go to the local modified races, I hear 20-30 cars making that sound all at once. In my next life, I'll get one of these. Thanks for an outstanding video.
One of the three Ameican cars truly masterpieces in motor racing, the Shelby Cobra 289 and 427, the Cobra Daytona Coupe, and of course the Ford GT 40! the most beautiful American racing car ever, all three creations of the same man , Mr Carroll Shelby, what a man! Thank you Petrol Ped!
@@jase6370 Yeah Carrol Shelby took a base model and had his team modify the hell out of it. but far from an "American made" race car. He had a simple formula for winning. 1. find the lightest car you can find. 2. find the biggest engine that will still fit. then figure out how to stop.
cross-plane vs. flat-plane - as a very much, red blooded American, I appreciate both, but vintage muscle has a home in my heart as that's what I grew up with.
I built my Cobra replica between 1988 -1992 and drove it as my daily driver until selling it in 2002. Wonderful experience and even with a slightly warmed up Windsor 302 producing maybe 320 hp and a Borg-Warner T5 transmission there was plenty of vooma to play with! It was totally tractable around town as well but fuel consumption was impressively high! 18 litres per 100 kms around town, 25 ltrs/100kms open road cruising at 3500rpm/180 kph on one trip of 300+ miles between Johannesburg and Margate!
@@cameronpoole Mainly because I needed to raise money for a business venture.However that was not as successful as hoped, so ultimately it was not such a good move at all! On balance I would rather still have the car sitting in my garage at home!
The race up the (so-called) L.A. River against the Ferrari was epic! It seemed like they had to sandbag the Cobra so it wouldn't pull so far ahead of the Ferrari. Once they hit the streets, the Cobra just took off and left the Ferrari in the dust...
What a car! That soundtrack is epic! Will never forget being overtaken by a Cobra just outside Warminster many, many years ago - big long stream of cars and it went past the lot! The best bit was the M3 trying (and failing miserably!) to hang onto his coattails!!! Looking forward to the Daytona vid already 😜😍
Side pipes are great and my daughter after more than 25 years still has the burn scar on here leg and wears it with pride. I have owned five AC Cobra replicas. Mainly AK and a Dax. All with Big V8 motors. Sold my last one 18 years ago and will always miss it.
That's what a V8 should sound like. Just rewatched and run it through the Yamaha a/v amp like watching a film, the sound is making the glass in the window vibrate. 😁.
AC Cobra, my father in laws dream car. He had one for the weekend for his 70th some years ago now. I did have a short ride in and loved it. I can only imagine how good this one must be.. Awesome. You are a very lucky chap Pete. Well done mate.
Hi Ped WOW👏👏👏What a wonderful soundtrack.Always loved the Cobra and still do. My one enduring memory in connection with this car was marshalling at Silverstone Classic a few years ago. My brief was or organise a collection of Cobras prior to them going out on a parade round the circuit. The lead car was driven by Jack Sears, and I had the honour and pleasure talking to him for for 15-20 minutes. At the allotted time I gave the signal “Gentlemen Start Your Engines”. Some 40 plus Cobras went past me two abreast each side of me. I will always remember that sound🥰
You could count on the fingers of 1 hand the number of cobras I have ever seen. Absolutely love the looks. Reviews like this is why I subscribe to the channel.
A Cobra has been my wish list car since I was a kid. Test drove a Superformance 427 Cobra very gently a couple decades ago, but couldn't pull the finances at the time. Now I see one with the same engine I have in my Mustang GT convertible; love that car! Still want a Cobra, but the Mustang is so much easier to get in and out of and I'm grateful for that.
My favourite car of all time ever since I was a child in the 1970s. This would be my first purchase for my 5 car garage if I win the lottery. Great video on a great car 👍 why do American v8s sound so awesome. ❤️
US V8s have cross plane cranks, necessitating an asymmetric firing order, which creates the "burble". Flat plane V8s (Ferrari, M3 4.0 V8) have a symmetric firing order, so can rev higher, but don't burble. Cross plane V8s are lower revving but more torquey, because a cylinder fires every 90 degrees of crank turn, rather than every 180 degrees of crank turn for a flat plane. Merc V8s are cross plane, which is why C63s sound fabulous, and why they are the closest European V8 to US muscle.
@@johnosullivan2017 Thanks for the info. I currently own a cls55 AMG with the super charged 5.5 M113k pre 6.3ltr. probably a different sound to the 6.3 but deemed a bit more reliable for the price bracket I could afford anyway. You are right in saying they are European muscle cars but the the American V8s are still the best. Any V8 is better than no V8 though.
Having built three Cobra Replicas I can confirm that they are indeed addictive and the best fun to be had on four wheels. Apart from in the rain. For the best sound you also need underslung exhausts not sidepipes.
@@PetrolPed Straight pipes down from manifolds, balance pipe just after gearbox, with very small silencers just before pipes exit under rear wings. Almost silent when tickling along, starts making the lovely warbly V8 sounds from 2000 revs, and really howls when opened up. Dropping a gear or two and mashing the throttle in tunnels is just sublime. Thats using modern V8's like BMW or Lexus. The Coyote engine would be similar.
I drove a Dax Cobra down to the south of France in one hit and I can tell you that with sidepipes you get the sound bouncing back off the armco so much it will drive you crazy! Not only that, but because you mainly hear one side of the engine, it never sounds like it's running right......
This could have been a podcast and I'd have still enjoyed as much! Hearing your excitement for the car and that incredible engine made me smile! Another good day at work for Petrol Ped 👌🏻
Recently got to have a dream passenger ride in a cobra replica with the 427 engine and you need to hear it/try it. The thing goes like hell and the sound on idle, slight rev, downshift, hell even upshift, it is truly the most raw and incredible sounding car I've ever heard.
Thanks for the video - great fun cars. I have a factory built 427 Dax with an LS7 - 3 years on and still don’t tire of it. It is however very much a 2 hour car - longer than that is exhausting…and in Sydney gotta avoid the hot days
Amazing car. A open convertible cobra is my dream car and i did watch this video till the end. I can never get enough of the cobra. I can spend hours just looking at builds and engines for the kit car cobra. A true petrol head dream.
A great story I heard about a AC Cobra. A couple were out for a drive ( he was driving ), sunny day, and as it is not a car to chat in they travelled for sometime without speaking. Toward the end of the day they car around a corner and up a rise where the view opened up in front of them with a setting sun in the distance, and she tapped him on the shoulder, lent over and said, "LOUD ISN'T IT".
Got to drive a Dax cobra when I was 18 that my uncle built. His friend had a GT40 replica that he built in his front room and had to install patio sliding doors to get it once built.
I’m lucky enough to have a superformance cobra with 720hp and 1053nm with side pipes and the noise is phenomenal not to mention the acceleration. They are brilliant cars
I thought the GT40 sounded awesome but the Cobra is in another league, could listen to that sound all day. What a fantastic job they have done in re-creating this classic car and putting the Mustang engine in it was a great idea, love it.
In 1966, I was in the U.S. Army' s helicopter flight school and as we got close to graduating the student parking lot started filling up with muscle and sports cars. Vettes, Mustangs, MGs, 442s, GTOs, etc. The car that really got my attention was one I'd never seen before. It was a 289 Cobra. I never did find out who owned it. :-(
Nice video Pete, reminds me of my old replica Cobra I bought in 2012 and ran it for about 4 years and sold it for what I paid for it. As near to free motoring as you could get save the fuel. Every drive was an event, even just to fill it up which back then cost near £100 but the looks, sound, questions from other motorists etc. However, it was not a practical car by any means, a fair weather only driver. Still miss it and when I see others on the road I always think one day I will have another.
Oh Petrol Ped!! Im gonna have to write my Bucket List now!!! 1:- Drive a Shelby Cobra! 2:- Drive a Monster Truck ✅ 3:- Watch some Drag Racing✅ I’m sure I’ll have more to add at some point!! As always Pete, great vid. Looks and sounds like you enjoyed driving that beast!
I went for a job at Brian Angliss Autokraft, will always remember the day even though it was over 30 years ago, I had gone to heaven. 427COB, a genuine 427 Cobra was there, as well as a couple of continuation 427 S/C. He also had a couple of Rolls Royce Silver Clouds 4 doors being converted to 2 door convertibles and a Daytona that had been converted to a convertible .
I’m torn between the coyote engine and going some period specific engine. I normally wouldn’t even think of a new engine but it sounds sooooooo good and that’s a big piece of the experience. I have also seen them souped up and the power is just sick. I just don’t know if a period specific engine can be this good. Gonna look at the Shelby engines before I ultimately decide.
My all time favourite car ! There was one at the Silverstone classic racing last Friday in unpainted aluminium, sounded incredible ! Despite the heavy rain it was being driven like it was stolen and must have been a real handful. This Superformance version looks and sounds awesome, great video !
@@PetrolPed Race number was 24, it had a black hard top..... had a really good look around it in the pits. If there were any sound restrictions in place that day the car wasn’t listening.... as you say, the noise it made really was epic ! Loving the channel, keep up the great content !
@@cooperparts You're killing me! Trying to decide on a 427 or the coyote. Based on your experience, which is faster 0-60?? Thinking of stroking out a 427 to about 700H.P. Would love to get your thoughts.
427 fe stroked with 428 crank 454 cid great but 427 Windsor the one I had in my cobra better because it is lighter the coyote winds higher that is what I want in my gt40 anyone of them would be great make sure it has 500 hp that is the key to value dyno proven 500 hp cars lot more value superformance is the best the # is on the hood hinge backdraft 2 nd no other one compares
@@cooperparts Interesting! I currently have a windsor stroked out to 500+ at the rear. Recently went from an 850 holley to 750. Seems to have lost a little of it's ummpff, but maybe it's just me. I'm thinking my expectations of a 427 big block are too high. Thanks for the info.!
She is loud, but looks like the best exhaust set up to suit a Cobra!!! It,s not for shopping in Peter you would get no peace from people who would want to know everything and with your business you wouldn’t,t have the time, so just enjoy these exotics when you can and we will carry on watching you👍👍👍🚘🚘🚘
Awesome car, no compromises, saw one in front of Costco in Santa Maria, CA....leaves that kind of memory, you remember exactly when and where. Nab the Coyote from the new Mustang Mach 1 with the Tremec from the GT350. I know I am supposed to like the Voodoo, but the Coyote is also special (cross vs flat). An NA V8 is a great sound.
I agree totally with your choice. Shelby Cobra and the Austin Healey 3000. I am pleased it seems you will get to fulfil your dream of driving both... me, unlikely. However, the soundtrack to this video was amazing and sent shivers up the spine and it was great to see how much sheer joy you got from driving this car. This channel is the only one I follow regularly on any topic. Such good quality and honest useful content whilst your passion really shows. Keep up the great work. I can only imagine the number of followers keep increasing.
Fantastic car and video. Is it me or the dipstick was missing? One of my favorite cars and for me one of the best sounding cars ever is the Mustang 350GT and best looking too
Hi Peter, What a car to enjoy on a hot sunny day and that throbbing sound it's just perfect. I would love to spec one up if I had the cash . Great Video Peter.
Probably my favourite classic car but would have to have different colour and some chrome , useable and reliable with modern drive train, thanks Ped you've made my day great video.👍
Oh my days, that soundtrack is virtually perfection! Did this car feature in the original Bad Boys movie? Car designers need to pay more attention to the ergonomics of the elbow rest!
I'm watching this for the second time. Visually and audibly, I'm having a religious experience. Being from the colonies, I've heard this sound all my life but in my 20's, I got into the European sound. Then, I thought this sounded unsophisticated and crude. There was an American racer/journalist named Denise McCluggage who described this as the 'brown' sound. I knew what she meant and I agreed. Maybe it's age and nostalgia but now I love it. But I will always love the high-revving European sound. A Lambo and a Cobra can make sweet music, right?
This car tick's all the right box's for me, Great review👌👍🙂, RWD, manual, exhaust sound, big engine in a small car😯, all weather driving. I'm keen to see the other car's mentioned in the video🙏.
These are called Cobra for a reason, Cobras Bite! The front engine and longer separate pipes, compared to the GT40's rear engine and short pipes, give it such a gorgeous sound! Both sound beautiful but the Cobra definitely growls at you when you step on the Happy pedal.
lol not first! But hi everyone hope all are safe healthy and happy! Also hope your able to enjoy the day today! What a fantastic video. That car sounds so aggressive and tough. I remember seeing one real one at a car show with a few replicas by it. There a car you can’t forget. Such a cool experience for you Sir Pete
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I've owned over 70 cars and one of my favorites, out of all of them, was my 1962 Austin Healey 3000 Mk 2 with the triple carb setup (one year only), white with black coves, red interior, black soft top, black hardtop, silver wire wheels .... lovely car. Drove it for three years while I flew jets for the RCAF, then took it back to Montreal where it proved impractical for the harsh Quebec winters. Sold it to someone in the states. Still loved owning it for five years.
Awesome 👏
Thank-you for your service, and then as Petrol Ped wrote,..."Awesome"!!!
My Dad had a TR3 in the Sixties, we had it up until my brother was born in 1972 (I was born in 67) was such a fun car!
Awesome story fam
I'm from Massachusetts. Whenever I go to the local modified races, I hear 20-30 cars making that sound all at once. In my next life, I'll get one of these. Thanks for an outstanding video.
That sounds very cool 👍
Seeing one of these burbling past the end of the road when I was a boy is what got me into cars in the first place. Still magical.
Love that 👍
I drive mine almost everywhere possible when it's nice out....so many compliments and thumbs up wherever I go...
👍
One of the three Ameican cars truly masterpieces in motor racing, the Shelby Cobra 289 and 427, the Cobra Daytona Coupe, and of course the Ford GT 40! the most beautiful American racing car ever, all three creations of the same man , Mr Carroll Shelby, what a man! Thank you Petrol Ped!
Hopefully by the end of the year I will have driven all 3 😬👍
I have had two of the three will get gt40 superior acne one day soon after my panthera
Actually both GT40 and Cobra were British designed and manufactured
@@jase6370 Yeah Carrol Shelby took a base model and had his team modify the hell out of it. but far from an "American made" race car.
He had a simple formula for winning.
1. find the lightest car you can find.
2. find the biggest engine that will still fit.
then figure out how to stop.
Thats awesome, it makes a noise the Germans and Italians can only dream of.
It makes a sound like a muscle car, because that is what the engine is. Nothing exotic, just rumble. Not that rumble can't sound ok.
cross-plane vs. flat-plane - as a very much, red blooded American, I appreciate both, but vintage muscle has a home in my heart as that's what I grew up with.
‘Merica 🇺🇸
I built my Cobra replica between 1988 -1992 and drove it as my daily driver until selling it in 2002. Wonderful experience and even with a slightly warmed up Windsor 302 producing maybe 320 hp and a Borg-Warner T5 transmission there was plenty of vooma to play with! It was totally tractable around town as well but fuel consumption was impressively high! 18 litres per 100 kms around town, 25 ltrs/100kms open road cruising at 3500rpm/180 kph on one trip of 300+ miles between Johannesburg and Margate!
Sounds cool. Why did you sell it?
@@cameronpoole Mainly because I needed to raise money for a business venture.However that was not as successful as hoped, so ultimately it was not such a good move at all! On balance I would rather still have the car sitting in my garage at home!
What an epic sublime piece of machinary...reminds me of that great movie "the gumball rally" back in "76"...a masterpiece of a car and then some!!!!
The race up the (so-called) L.A. River against the Ferrari was epic! It seemed like they had to sandbag the Cobra so it wouldn't pull so far ahead of the Ferrari. Once they hit the streets, the Cobra just took off and left the Ferrari in the dust...
What a car! That soundtrack is epic! Will never forget being overtaken by a Cobra just outside Warminster many, many years ago - big long stream of cars and it went past the lot! The best bit was the M3 trying (and failing miserably!) to hang onto his coattails!!! Looking forward to the Daytona vid already 😜😍
LOL 😂
Side pipes are great and my daughter after more than 25 years still has the burn scar on here leg and wears it with pride. I have owned five AC Cobra replicas. Mainly AK and a Dax. All with Big V8 motors. Sold my last one 18 years ago and will always miss it.
A good way to remember the car 😂😂
Thats amazing information about Superformance: th-cam.com/video/RQ5karO2PaM/w-d-xo.html
That exhaust note should be sold as a relaxation CD. 😁
Seen this video a few times and still keep coming back to it
Awesome 👏
Love that sound. It’s loud but throaty, not raspy.
My ultimate dream car.
Same here man, found out they're actually a pretty affordable dream car. Hope I beat you to it😉
Shelby Cobra is so awesome, I wish I could let my father have a drive for his birthday, That would be the best present for his age
That's what a V8 should sound like. Just rewatched and run it through the Yamaha a/v amp like watching a film, the sound is making the glass in the window vibrate. 😁.
Good job 👏
AC Cobra, my father in laws dream car. He had one for the weekend for his 70th some years ago now. I did have a short ride in and loved it. I can only imagine how good this one must be.. Awesome. You are a very lucky chap Pete. Well done mate.
I am indeed 🙏🏻
My dream car! The sound of that coyote engine coming thru the side pipes is the best mechanical symphony ever! Thanks for a great driving video.👍
Thanks Gerald. I’m just so chuffed I managed to capture the sound OK 👍
Hi Ped
WOW👏👏👏What a wonderful soundtrack.Always loved the Cobra and still do. My one enduring memory in connection with this car was marshalling at Silverstone Classic a few years ago. My brief was or organise a collection of Cobras prior to them going out on a parade round the circuit. The lead car was driven by Jack Sears, and I had the honour and pleasure talking to him for for 15-20 minutes. At the allotted time I gave the signal “Gentlemen Start Your Engines”. Some 40 plus Cobras went past me two abreast each side of me. I will always remember that sound🥰
Blimey. Has you hearing recovered yet 😂
You could count on the fingers of 1 hand the number of cobras I have ever seen. Absolutely love the looks. Reviews like this is why I subscribe to the channel.
Thanks Owen. Glad you enjoyed it 👍
A Cobra has been my wish list car since I was a kid. Test drove a Superformance 427 Cobra very gently a couple decades ago, but couldn't pull the finances at the time. Now I see one with the same engine I have in my Mustang GT convertible; love that car! Still want a Cobra, but the Mustang is so much easier to get in and out of and I'm grateful for that.
My favourite car of all time ever since I was a child in the 1970s. This would be my first purchase for my 5 car garage if I win the lottery.
Great video on a great car 👍 why do American v8s sound so awesome. ❤️
It sure sounded awesome 👍
my sentiments exactly .
US V8s have cross plane cranks, necessitating an asymmetric firing order, which creates the "burble". Flat plane V8s (Ferrari, M3 4.0 V8) have a symmetric firing order, so can rev higher, but don't burble. Cross plane V8s are lower revving but more torquey, because a cylinder fires every 90 degrees of crank turn, rather than every 180 degrees of crank turn for a flat plane. Merc V8s are cross plane, which is why C63s sound fabulous, and why they are the closest European V8 to US muscle.
More here: www.carthrottle.com/post/which-sounds-better-a-cross-plane-or-flat-plane-v8/
@@johnosullivan2017 Thanks for the info.
I currently own a cls55 AMG with the super charged 5.5 M113k pre 6.3ltr. probably a different sound to the 6.3 but deemed a bit more reliable for the price bracket I could afford anyway. You are right in saying they are European muscle cars but the the American V8s are still the best. Any V8 is better than no V8 though.
Having built three Cobra Replicas I can confirm that they are indeed addictive and the best fun to be had on four wheels. Apart from in the rain. For the best sound you also need underslung exhausts not sidepipes.
Really ? Interesting 👍
@@PetrolPed Straight pipes down from manifolds, balance pipe just after gearbox, with very small silencers just before pipes exit under rear wings. Almost silent when tickling along, starts making the lovely warbly V8 sounds from 2000 revs, and really howls when opened up. Dropping a gear or two and mashing the throttle in tunnels is just sublime. Thats using modern V8's like BMW or Lexus. The Coyote engine would be similar.
I drove a Dax Cobra down to the south of France in one hit and I can tell you that with sidepipes you get the sound bouncing back off the armco so much it will drive you crazy! Not only that, but because you mainly hear one side of the engine, it never sounds like it's running right......
Ahh, no. MUCH better sound and louder with the side pipes. No brainer.
Ped honestly this is the car of my dreams. Honestly when i win the lottery that's what i want. What a thing
It’s now also the car of my dreams 😂
Many things make the AC Cobra special but I have to agree , the sound is right up there with the pleasure of driving one , I love mine .
Oh yes 🙌
AS YOU START THE ENGINE, IT TOOK ME BY SURPRISE . THE SOUND 💖 WAS MIND BLOWING. SIMPLY AMAZING.
I had to get in it off camera to move it to where we filmed. When I started it it just blew my mind 😯
This Is twice in a week that I've had to say, you lucky, lucky Boy. 1st the GT40 now this. WoW
Very lucky 🙏🏻
This could have been a podcast and I'd have still enjoyed as much! Hearing your excitement for the car and that incredible engine made me smile! Another good day at work for Petrol Ped 👌🏻
Thanks buddy 👍
Recently got to have a dream passenger ride in a cobra replica with the 427 engine and you need to hear it/try it. The thing goes like hell and the sound on idle, slight rev, downshift, hell even upshift, it is truly the most raw and incredible sounding car I've ever heard.
Nice 👌
Thanks for the video - great fun cars. I have a factory built 427 Dax with an LS7 - 3 years on and still don’t tire of it. It is however very much a 2 hour car - longer than that is exhausting…and in Sydney gotta avoid the hot days
That sounds awesome 👌
Amazing car. A open convertible cobra is my dream car and i did watch this video till the end. I can never get enough of the cobra. I can spend hours just looking at builds and engines for the kit car cobra. A true petrol head dream.
Oh yes 🙌
Superb cars Pete ,Olivers mum helped my wife for many years with RDA .
Oh wow. I used to volunteer for the RDA 👍
Hi Ian, hope you and the family are all well. Do send my love.
The perfect sports car.....sublime sight and sound.
Unbelievable piece of kit.
Mega thing 👍
A great story I heard about a AC Cobra.
A couple were out for a drive ( he was driving ), sunny day, and as it is not a car to chat in they travelled for sometime without speaking. Toward the end of the day they car around a corner and up a rise where the view opened up in front of them with a setting sun in the distance, and she tapped him on the shoulder, lent over and said, "LOUD ISN'T IT".
😂😂😂
That is seriously bad ass, what a sound, man green so green
Proper Bad Ass 😂
what a absolutely beautiful machine
Indeed 👍
You were right what an awesome car. The sound of the thing absolutely stunning....
Would love one with the 427 FE Side-Oiler, but wouldn't complain about either the Coyote or the Roush 427.
Got to drive a Dax cobra when I was 18 that my uncle built. His friend had a GT40 replica that he built in his front room and had to install patio sliding doors to get it once built.
Love that 👍
WHAT A TEST DRIVE!! Stunning machine!
Thanks Joseph 👍
Had to watch this twice it sounded so good through the headphones..Wow!
Great 👍
I’m lucky enough to have a superformance cobra with 720hp and 1053nm with side pipes and the noise is phenomenal not to mention the acceleration. They are brilliant cars
Oh wow. You lucky thing 👏👏👏
I can't imagine how violent the acceleration must be in that!
Had a smile on my face throughout the entire vid, thanks for sharing.
I thought the GT40 sounded awesome but the Cobra is in another league, could listen to that sound all day. What a fantastic job they have done in re-creating this classic car and putting the Mustang engine in it was a great idea, love it.
Cheers Gareth 👍
Stupendous! Friend of mine assembles some of these cars and I had a drive & photo shoot with their Daytona Coupe demo car. Fantastic!
Can’t wait to drive that one 👍
Suddenly twigged where you were driving (when you went past Worth Abbey School) , some great B roads round there 👍🏻
This is one of the most beautiful car. I only wish I can own one.
What a sourd…or better i say what a incredible melody…huge thanks for sharing this moment 👍 always on the top 👍
Haha! Yep, I use subtitles a lot of the time and they said "Music"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
My pleasure 👍
In 1966, I was in the U.S. Army' s helicopter flight school and as we got close to graduating the student parking lot started filling up with muscle and sports cars. Vettes, Mustangs, MGs, 442s, GTOs, etc. The car that really got my attention was one I'd never seen before. It was a 289 Cobra. I never did find out who owned it. :-(
Nice video Pete, reminds me of my old replica Cobra I bought in 2012 and ran it for about 4 years and sold it for what I paid for it. As near to free motoring as you could get save the fuel. Every drive was an event, even just to fill it up which back then cost near £100 but the looks, sound, questions from other motorists etc. However, it was not a practical car by any means, a fair weather only driver. Still miss it and when I see others on the road I always think one day I will have another.
What a weekend you must have had, first the GT40 and now this. Fantastic sound - WOW ! 🤩 👍👍👍👍👍
Oh yes 👍
Great video Pete, really enjoyed that, and the driving experience really came over very well on camera, utterly brilliant my friend 👌👍
Thanks Nick. I was so worried the audio wouldn’t work and was relieved it did 👍
That would be top of the list for my 3 car garage if I had the money!
That is a proper car.Great drive and yes,a great noise too.Thank you.
My pleasure 👍
You got me the second you started it! OMG that rumble!
Oh yeah 😜👍
Oh Petrol Ped!! Im gonna have to write my Bucket List now!!!
1:- Drive a Shelby Cobra!
2:- Drive a Monster Truck ✅
3:- Watch some Drag Racing✅
I’m sure I’ll have more to add at some point!!
As always Pete, great vid. Looks and sounds like you enjoyed driving that beast!
Thanks Sean 👍
Is excitement reminds me of every time I get on my 2022 triumph rocket
I have just watched the car chase in Bullitt and your Cobra sounds identical, you could have substituted your soundtrack for theirs, fantastic!
Awesome 👏
I went for a job at Brian Angliss Autokraft, will always remember the day even though it was over 30 years ago, I had gone to heaven. 427COB, a genuine 427 Cobra was there, as well as a couple of continuation 427 S/C. He also had a couple of Rolls Royce Silver Clouds 4 doors being converted to 2 door convertibles and a Daytona that had been converted to a convertible .
Wow 😯
Excellent...
It sounds like it will distroy anything on the road. Great video and camera work.
🍻👍🤘
I’m torn between the coyote engine and going some period specific engine. I normally wouldn’t even think of a new engine but it sounds sooooooo good and that’s a big piece of the experience. I have also seen them souped up and the power is just sick. I just don’t know if a period specific engine can be this good. Gonna look at the Shelby engines before I ultimately decide.
“Batman’s daily” lovin that and the car!
Had the chance and took it to go for a drive in a shelby cobra at Beaulieu a few years ago. Still talk about it now. Lucky boy Pete.
Ace aren’t they 👍
My all time favourite car ! There was one at the Silverstone classic racing last Friday in unpainted aluminium, sounded incredible ! Despite the heavy rain it was being driven like it was stolen and must have been a real handful. This Superformance version looks and sounds awesome, great video !
I know that car. It races at Revival and Members Meeting at Goodwood. Sounds absolutely epic 👌👍
@@PetrolPed Race number was 24, it had a black hard top..... had a really good look around it in the pits. If there were any sound restrictions in place that day the car wasn’t listening.... as you say, the noise it made really was epic ! Loving the channel, keep up the great content !
Love the car but it would HAVE to be the 427, “Ford Racing” engine for me, much closer to the originals, the “Coyote” is just too modern!
Yep, the 427 has a totally different growl, just like the original.
I love and raced FE s but that new motor just pulls for ever and forever is a long time
@@cooperparts You're killing me! Trying to decide on a 427 or the coyote. Based on your experience, which is faster 0-60?? Thinking of stroking out a 427 to about 700H.P. Would love to get your thoughts.
427 fe stroked with 428 crank 454 cid great but 427 Windsor the one I had in my cobra better because it is lighter the coyote winds higher that is what I want in my gt40 anyone of them would be great make sure it has 500 hp that is the key to value dyno proven 500 hp cars lot more value superformance is the best the # is on the hood hinge backdraft 2 nd no other one compares
@@cooperparts Interesting! I currently have a windsor stroked out to 500+ at the rear. Recently went from an 850 holley to 750. Seems to have lost a little of it's ummpff, but maybe it's just me. I'm thinking my expectations of a 427 big block are too high. Thanks for the info.!
If it was a song it will hit NO 1 in the top 100 .
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Nothing like a V8! Driving refinement perfection in Any V8!
She is loud, but looks like the best exhaust set up to suit a Cobra!!! It,s not for shopping in Peter you would get no peace from people who would want to know everything and with your business you wouldn’t,t have the time, so just enjoy these exotics when you can and we will carry on watching you👍👍👍🚘🚘🚘
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Awesome car, no compromises, saw one in front of Costco in Santa Maria, CA....leaves that kind of memory, you remember exactly when and where. Nab the Coyote from the new Mustang Mach 1 with the Tremec from the GT350. I know I am supposed to like the Voodoo, but the Coyote is also special (cross vs flat). An NA V8 is a great sound.
I agree totally with your choice. Shelby Cobra and the Austin Healey 3000. I am pleased it seems you will get to fulfil your dream of driving both... me, unlikely. However, the soundtrack to this video was amazing and sent shivers up the spine and it was great to see how much sheer joy you got from driving this car. This channel is the only one I follow regularly on any topic. Such good quality and honest useful content whilst your passion really shows. Keep up the great work. I can only imagine the number of followers keep increasing.
Thanks Simon 🙏🏻
Fantastic car and video.
Is it me or the dipstick was missing?
One of my favorite cars and for me one of the best sounding cars ever is the Mustang 350GT and best looking too
Still amazing that these kind of cars are still allowed to be made in these days of regulation ..Great video.👍
Cheers Andy 👍
a guy at work (in the 90s) built a cobra kit car with Jag E type engine, sounded fab.
What a great looking and sounding car!
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DAYUM! Black on black... she's a bad mama jama! RIP and Godspeed to the man himself, Carroll Shelby.
Hi Peter, What a car to enjoy on a hot sunny day and that throbbing sound it's just perfect. I would love to spec one up if I had the cash . Great Video Peter.
Thanks Alan. I am now saving up 😂
This video was so enjoyable. Now I have to figure out how to get that sound out of my MX5!
Can a Coyote V8 fit in an MX5 🤔😜😂
Trade it in for a SLK55?
Can't wait to have mine built out to my specs... its going to be a rocket 🚀
Brilliant car. Oliver just comes across as a really top bloke too. Need him more on your channel.
He is a lovely guy and will defo be on the channel again 👍
Thank you Dale. We have a few more cars on order so when done, Petrol Ped will be over for a drive :)
Probably my favourite classic car but would have to have different colour and some chrome , useable and reliable with modern drive train, thanks Ped you've made my day great video.👍
They had a lovely MkII that was that kind of spec and probably the one I would take home 👌
3:07 the viper is very curvy as well but it is inspired by the cobra.
Thank Pete for sharing rare petrol head contents!
My pleasure 👍
I enjoyed watching the Video. The best Corba Engine Sound ever
Oh my days, that soundtrack is virtually perfection! Did this car feature in the original Bad Boys movie? Car designers need to pay more attention to the ergonomics of the elbow rest!
Mate the elbow rest was literally perfect 😂
I'm watching this for the second time. Visually and audibly, I'm having a religious experience. Being from the colonies, I've heard this sound all my life but in my 20's, I got into the European sound. Then, I thought this sounded unsophisticated and crude. There was an American racer/journalist named Denise McCluggage who described this as the 'brown' sound. I knew what she meant and I agreed. Maybe it's age and nostalgia but now I love it. But I will always love the high-revving European sound. A Lambo and a Cobra can make sweet music, right?
Gimme the US cross plane burble over Euro flat plane howl anyday!
I think you have developed the Damon from DDE speed grin!! This is one of my all time favourite cars, thanks for sharing Pete.
It certainly is a grin generator 👍
The. Engine. In. The. Cobra. Sounds amazing totally. Mind. Blowing 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂👍
So good!
I need one of those cars! That noise... wow! I dread to think what the RRP is but remortgaging the house might make sense :D
I’m selling a kidney on EBay 😜😂
This car tick's all the right box's for me, Great review👌👍🙂, RWD, manual, exhaust sound, big engine in a small car😯, all weather driving. I'm keen to see the other car's mentioned in the video🙏.
I am keen to drive them 😜😂
Wow that does sound epic !!! What a crazy fun ride and Oliver is a true car guy 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻🍻🇨🇦
Epic in every way 👍
Thank you 😊
There is no better car than the Shelby Cobra ... my absolute dream car!
These are called Cobra for a reason, Cobras Bite! The front engine and longer separate pipes, compared to the GT40's rear engine and short pipes, give it such a gorgeous sound! Both sound beautiful but the Cobra definitely growls at you when you step on the Happy pedal.
Shame the instruments are not as original - the reverse speedometer was an iconic feature of the original Cobra...
Amazing!! Sounded so much better through my headphones rather than the Macbook! lol
I’m just pleased I managed to capture it 👍
What a true gent Oliver is, hats off for bringing those beasts to the channel. 👍
I’m sure it’s not the last time he will be on the channel 👍
Thank you 😊 was all down to Petrol Ped being a top chap and good driver!
I love Cobras My dad built 2 of them 👍🧽🏁 This sounded spot on😀
Thanks for the pics 👍
What an amazing car and sound more more more please 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I’ve got a feel for these kind of cars now 😜👍
lol not first! But hi everyone hope all are safe healthy and happy! Also hope your able to enjoy the day today! What a fantastic video. That car sounds so aggressive and tough. I remember seeing one real one at a car show with a few replicas by it. There a car you can’t forget. Such a cool experience for you Sir Pete
Torrential rain in Glasgow...
@@p.h.234 it rained this morning here in Michigan but now it’s sunny and nice.
I need one in my life 😂
@@PetrolPed i bet ya do and it would be a awesome stable mate for ruby lol
Just watched this for the first time it made the hair stand up on the back my neck must be watched wearing headphones 😁
the noise ! epic car, excellent reviewing
Cheers mate. It ticked every box for me 👌