So about 4 years ago I found the shell of a 93 Cobra on ebay. Apparently, the car was a theft recovery from California with only 24K miles on it. Obviously curious, I ran the VIN and it all checked out. The owner at the time had purchased the car from the insurance company who found the car with the intention of making a race/street car out of it.
Always wanting a 93 Cobra and having several parts sitting around, I bought the car with the intention of returning the car to as stock as possible. However, when I picked up the car I was shocked to see the condition it was in. Although the owner was on the up and up, it was just shocking to see how stripped the thieves left this 24K mile, black on black beauty.
Here she is after I got her home. Wheels were gone and it rode on spares, no ground effects, no motor, no tranny, no rear end, no rear disc brakes, no front nose piece and the only thing in the interior was the carpet and the dash. That's it. But, the buck tags were there and the 93 Cobra specific steering wheel was still there...and near perfect.
The blue tape was me masking the edges so I could buff the original paint. I later gave up. The car sat in a barn (yes...I said barn) for about 5 years before I got it and the couple of light scratches were just too much for the buffer.
Pretty sad.
So, the first order of business was paint. I stripped what was left of the interior and sent it off to be painted. The gentleman I purchased the car from happened to have a set of original 93 Cobra ground effects that I took off his hands so they fit quite well, although they had to be stripped of the red and painted black. The first paint shop left a little to be desired so I had it redone again. Here she is after the paint:
These were before the cut and buff. But I was very pleased with the second paint job.
Always wanting a 93 Cobra and having several parts sitting around, I bought the car with the intention of returning the car to as stock as possible. However, when I picked up the car I was shocked to see the condition it was in. Although the owner was on the up and up, it was just shocking to see how stripped the thieves left this 24K mile, black on black beauty.
Here she is after I got her home. Wheels were gone and it rode on spares, no ground effects, no motor, no tranny, no rear end, no rear disc brakes, no front nose piece and the only thing in the interior was the carpet and the dash. That's it. But, the buck tags were there and the 93 Cobra specific steering wheel was still there...and near perfect.
The blue tape was me masking the edges so I could buff the original paint. I later gave up. The car sat in a barn (yes...I said barn) for about 5 years before I got it and the couple of light scratches were just too much for the buffer.
Pretty sad.
So, the first order of business was paint. I stripped what was left of the interior and sent it off to be painted. The gentleman I purchased the car from happened to have a set of original 93 Cobra ground effects that I took off his hands so they fit quite well, although they had to be stripped of the red and painted black. The first paint shop left a little to be desired so I had it redone again. Here she is after the paint:
These were before the cut and buff. But I was very pleased with the second paint job.
