Re: AC Cobra Super Stocker
 

When I raced B/FX back in 1965 we used to race a Cobra 289 with webers in eliminator. If I remember correctly, the car was owned by Schlitz breweries and the driver was the grandson of the founder of Schlitz. (The beer of Milwaukee)
Usually at Niagara Raceway.

Re: AC Cobra Super Stocker
 

I doubt it, your Honda is a convertible with roll up door windows, a Cobra is a roadster with no provisions for door windows.

Re: AC Cobra Super Stocker
 

An S2000 is classified as a roadster, not a convertible.

Re: AC Cobra Super Stocker
 

Carey,
Looking at the information available, an interesting car.
Any chance to find an english version of this?

http://www.honda.co.jp/factbook/auto...99904/050.html

Is it called a Roadster from Honda? My Classic car friends always point out the roadsters on the November road trip as the guys wearing jackets, gloves (the newest car we've used is a '34 and no heater available) and heavy clothes just like us plus wearing hoods and stocking hats since they have no side windows.

Today they might call all two seat convertibles roadsters. Didn't the early Vipers have snap on windows? Bizarrely my friends wife had a Dodge Magnum wagon and it came titled as a truck to avoid epa "car" stuff.

Re: AC Cobra Super Stocker
 

Yes it is called a roadster from Honda

Here is what I could find in english.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_S2000

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But does the Honda not have roll up windows from the factory? I believe THAT is what seperates a roadster from a convertible, regadless of what tag the manufacturer puts on it. It seems nobody calls a station wagon a station wagon anymore, they are all "Sport Activity Vehicles" or some form of hatchback. They still look like station wagons to me!!

Re: AC Cobra Super Stocker
 

It has powered windows from the factory.

So who defines it then if the manufacturer doesn't?

Seems like the traditional definition of roadster is different than the current.

Re: AC Cobra Super Stocker
 

Thanks for the link. Still trying to translate the Japanese page.

Seems all these small 2 seat cars are Roadsters now, the BMW, the Mazda, the new Viper, etc. as compared to an old school Cobra or a Morgan. It is listed in the wiki convertable section with a retactable hard top. How NHRA views a roadster is another thing way above my pay grade.

Re: AC Cobra Super Stocker
 

If that car was built when it first hit the drawing boards in it's original conception 10-11 years ago it would have run all of the hemis and vettes out of SS/AA ;) which was the plan at the time

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Hey Alex, I also was looking at the Cobra as a SS/AA combo about that time myself. Problem was there were no autos in these cars by what NHRA info I could find but I did chase down 3 csx # that had autos in them. One was the personal car of Shelby himself and one other was the Cosby car that Shelby built for Bill Cosby both were Super Snakes with twin paxton super chargers plus one more.Still would be a wild ride with a stick.