The hardest part

Undoubtedly, the most difficult part of building a replica car is selecting the color. I've always driven red cars, but red is for Ferrari's. Yellow - Corvette.  Blue? Almost every Cobra is Blue with White stripes - I don't want to be like everyone else. (The original racing colors were to be white with blue, but Ole Shel' had some issues with the establishment, so he chose blue with white) 

My wife has always preferred white cars, she drives a white Miata. Without her, this project would have never been possible. I had always admired the Racing Beat Miata  . My choice was made: White with Red/Blue stripes. The initial pages of this website included a retouched photo with this selection.

 But with the Cobra sitting next to the Miata, the proportions are entirely different, even though both are 90” wheelbase. The red/white stripes just didn’t fit right.

One day I say a photo of a 66’ GT350, White w/ Blue but this one had a bright red pit stripe on the left fender. (sometimes erroneously referred to as “rookie stripes”, they served to identify which car of a multi-car team was coming into the pit)

The die was cast. My final choice was 2009 Ford Performance White (HP) with 1996 Ford Royal Blue Metallic (KM) stripes and 1999 Ford Performance Red (ES) pit stripes.

Like everyone else? There aren't many white cobras. Of the original 343 CSX3000 series, there were only 24 white

  

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Credit to Ryan Cassidy for this notation - I think it says it all and correctly.