2004 Mystichrome Cobra Info

[Chersch7406]

I was looking to see if anyone had any info on this particular Cobra. I may travel and look at it next month if it’s still available. If anyone see’s anything out of place let me know. Thanks.


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[TerminatoRS]

That's funny. I ran across that one the other day and found myself seriously considering selling the RS and getting another Cobra. lol I'm not a convertible guy, but that's a pretty decent price.

Looks pretty close to stock to me aside from 1/2 an intake, the cat-back, and wider rear wheels. I believe that's the FR500 cat-back too which has a bit of a following since it's no longer available. Blower pulley looks gigantic which isn't a bad thing. Only thing I noticed is that the underside seems a little rusty to me. Looks like it did some sitting over moisture (ie parked over dirt or grass) or saw some winter duty. Mine's a year older with more miles and doesn't have half the corrosion. Someone with a more critical eye will chime in I'm sure.

 

[q6543]

I bet it's a salvage/rebuilt title car

My guess is they lie until you show up and mention a teeny tiny accident.. airbags didn't even go off... BARELY even scratched the paint... but the stupid insurance company salvaged it.

 

[03SVT10]

Carfax is included. That is quite a bit of corrosion on the underside. Looks to be all surface but still...not worth the asking price IMHO because of that. If you don't care or will detail the underside yourself then go for it if the rest of the car is in order.

 

[ITSTOCK]

This keeps coming up for sale with questions, and they had a roughly 10k mile one as well at the same time. BOTH of them show signs of major water intrusion, and when I informed them of it and my concerns (I was going to buy the lower mileage one), they told me that all of the rust in the engine bay was completely normal for these cars and there was no way that there was water damage.

I'd be majorly skeptical of that car.

 

[Goose17]

Driver’s seat and steering wheel look to be in decent condition for the mileage. This is a good thing since Mystichrome leather is simply not available. The engine mods hurt the price though.

 

[Chersch7406]

Thanks all, I’m gonna pass. Should have kept my CO Cobra years ago.

 

[BlckBox04]

did the dealer really put a sticker of the car number on the bumper

 

[CobraBob]

Is that a blemish (indentation) on the rear passenger side rear seat cushion? Almost looks like something like a pen almost pushed through the leather.
??

 

[01yellercobra]

did the dealer really put a sticker of the car number on the bumper

That's horrible if that's what it is. The PO of my car did something similar, but made it look like the Saleen numbers. I still removed it.

 

[TerminatoRS]

Is that a blemish (indentation) on the rear passenger side rear seat cushion? Almost looks like something like a pen almost pushed through the leather.
??

I noticed that too, Bob. My first reaction was cigarette burn. I pictured a previous owner bee-bopping around town with the top down, flicking their butt (cig butt, that is), and not realizing that it dropped on the back seat.

 

[Goocher0310th]

Underneath it looks like it was driven on salty roads for years.

 

[sonicx]

Where’s the under neath footage, I must be blind lol. I just wanna see how bad it is .

 

[03SVT10]

On the Auto Trader ad there is a website for the car. There are more pics on that site.

 

[plumbcrazy]

That's funny. I ran across that one the other day and found myself seriously considering selling the RS and getting another Cobra. lol I'm not a convertible guy, but that's a pretty decent price.

Looks pretty close to stock to me aside from 1/2 an intake, the cat-back, and wider rear wheels. I believe that's the FR500 cat-back too which has a bit of a following since it's no longer available. Blower pulley looks gigantic which isn't a bad thing. Only thing I noticed is that the underside seems a little rusty to me. Looks like it did some sitting over moisture (ie parked over dirt or grass) or saw some winter duty. Mine's a year older with more miles and doesn't have half the corrosion. Someone with a more critical eye will chime in I'm sure.

This car's been for sale a long time( like so many other Terminators that are priced too high

That's funny. I ran across that one the other day and found myself seriously considering selling the RS and getting another Cobra. lol I'm not a convertible guy, but that's a pretty decent price.

Looks pretty close to stock to me aside from 1/2 an intake, the cat-back, and wider rear wheels. I believe that's the FR500 cat-back too which has a bit of a following since it's no longer available. Blower pulley looks gigantic which isn't a bad thing. Only thing I noticed is that the underside seems a little rusty to me. Looks like it did some sitting over moisture (ie parked over dirt or grass) or saw some winter duty. Mine's a year older with more miles and doesn't have half the corrosion. Someone with a more critical eye will chime in I'm sure.

This car's been for sale a long time ( as are so many other Terminators that are overpriced). A clean undercarriage is a hard thing to recapture and when I was looking( for a year before buying in Sept.'19, I saw some nice 30-40k mileage cars that had been outside under a cover on the driveway, etc..
They just looked bad. I couldn't even factor in the countless hours of cleaning and parts to restore to" decent " it would've taken to get the car sorted. Such a shame.
My car with 80k + miles looks like a car with 20-30k underneath because It's seen very little wet road driving and has almost always ( presumably- but it looks like) always or mostly always been garaged.
That makes a Yuuuge difference in the value of a car IMO.