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Caption This: When You Want Everything And Don’t Want To Choose…Meet The Cobrette!


Caption This: When You Want Everything And Don’t Want To Choose…Meet The Cobrette!

“You can have your cake and eat it too”, the saying goes. You’re damn right I’ll eat my cake if I have it, but that’s not the point. Some people just refuse to pick one or the other, but instead want everything their way and refuse to choose. Cake, or pie? Both. Vacation in Italy or Spain? Both. Stacy or Brittany? …you get the idea.

Apparently that goes for cars as well. An early C3 Corvette is a pretty good choice, especially if it’s big-blocked. Then again, an AC Cobra isn’t a bad way to go either. Normally, when you think of combining the two you wind up with the Shelby Daytona Coupe, but in this case we have a Cobra-nosed C3. Is there a 427ci V8 under that hood? Probably. Which one? You guess. Honestly, we’re a little puzzled as to the whys and hows that created this chimera, but for a bit of pleasing circularity, we’d like to see a 426 Hemi under the hood and AMC Javelin taillights molded into the back, just because.

(Courtesy of V.I.S.I.T)


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23 thoughts on “Caption This: When You Want Everything And Don’t Want To Choose…Meet The Cobrette!

  1. john t

    I love it… but I sense that at least some Americans might not because of the perceived cringe thing about Corvettes (being an Aussie we have no such issues because they are rare enough on the road here..) To get away from the `oh, its a Corvette’ thing, I reckon you’d just need to change the shape a little of the rear top corner of the side window…. it screams Corvette as it is but if it was a bit rounded perhaps it’d have people scratching their heads….

    1. ColoradoKid

      If I gotta explain the 500,000 reasons why this thing is so absolutely wrong … you’ll never understand it .

      Oh well . So much for the theory of you Antipode types out Americaning us Yanks when it comes to the disease of GearHeaditis

      1. John T

        why would I ever need you of all people try to explain anything to me? Dude, you had is so far up your own arse I’d only ask your opinion if I wanted to know exactly how full of shit you really are. Go take a flying continental fuck, asshole.

  2. Nick D.

    I don’t know, I actually kind of like it. We may have gotten this, if history had gone the other way. After all, before talking to Ford, Shelby originally approached Chevrolet to provide an engine for his sportscar.

    1. ColoradoKid

      Yes and GM being the morons they’ve always been showed Carrol the door .. with quite a shove if history is correct

      And if this thing might of been the result had GM done otherwise … thats one time GM effing up did us all a huge favor .

      Giving us both the Cobra and the C2 [ with all its racing variations ] rather than this cartoonish pile of manure

      Phew ! Thank God for small favors and in this case GM effing up … again !

  3. ColoradoKid

    This pos is an abject lesson in how to take one iconic car [ Cobra ] and ore mediocre one [ the C3 ] mash em together making one serious abomination of a car that never should of seen the light of day … never mind featured here ..

    Geeze ! The damn thing looks like the bstd child of a 70’s Camaro/C3 half breed and a really crappy Cobra kit car

    Blaaaarrrpptttt !

    Damn you McTaggaret ! Another wasted breakfast all over the floor !!!!!

    Or as the bard Bruce Hornsby would put it … SCKBSTD !

  4. Nigel Mansell's Ferret

    1. Looks like the automotive equivalent of an Abe Lincoln Susan Boyle love child.

    2. Like an AC Corba’s body panels this guy should be hand beaten.

    3. Makes about as much sense as Larry Shinoda wearing a cowboy hat.

    4. Shevette!!!

  5. loren

    This way you could believe you’re driving a Shelby Cobra, and have somewhere to put your legs too. As far as Mr. Shelby collaborating with GM, without having been there I don’t see how Chevrolet/Zora Arkus Duntov could’ve ever believed that they needed the guy. Ford did.

  6. Scott Liggett

    I don’t know. I kinda like it. The lines seem to work for me. I would need more pics of it to be sure. But, then again, who really cares if a C3 is cut up? Oh yeah, brand loyal twerps who can’t stand cross-breeding who ignore the history of hot rodding was built on it. I see a few have already wrapped themselves in the Ford flag in order to have a proper hissy fit.

  7. 1966longroof

    Just a C3, not like it was a numbers matching super rare vette. No reason to loose any sleep over it.

  8. tony riva

    ok this is my car just after paint and not completely finished
    i found the car on craigslist in a very raw state a 74 corvette with this hand made front clip on it. i hated it at first but then fel this overwhelming need to save or finish it.
    So (no offense) to 74 corvette lovers i feel the 74 was the ugliest c3 made with the huge ass crack split in the rear bumper no chrome bumpers and the first fat blobish nose, so i figured why not just o crazy 70`s roadracer/custom with it and enjoy the hell out of it..??
    so with the help of a friend we ripped the riginal rear bumper off and put ecklers rear mudflap flares (they matched the front fender factory look the best) added a custom rear bumperand seamed it in. the front end was so long and short (no room under for aircleaner) so i thought why not take the cobra look a bit further with a cobra type scoop.
    I didnt want a cheap knock off cobra thats why i kept the rear corvette looking and with two pns and the pigtail harness unplugged the entire front clip comes off.
    As a child of the 70`s i loved the crazy customs and wild paint from that area
    so i always wanted to build something of that nature and felt this car was a very good candidate for such a build.
    i then drove my painter buddy insane trying to figure out what color and we decided on gm hugger orange with hoc mini micro golden orange flake in the clear dusted over the orange and went with a motion paint scheme in the rear and carried over to a cobra scheme in the front.
    [URL=http://s15.photobucket.com/user/Tonystoys123/media/01212_5ZAvrSdG4Q7_600x450_zps3782649a.jpg.html][IMG]http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a351/Tonystoys123/01212_5ZAvrSdG4Q7_600x450_zps3782649a.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

  9. tony riva

    was gonna drop a 13:1 gm 427 in it (427 super cobra VETTE) but i wanted it to be more driveable and enjoyable so i opted for a built sbc with a muncie 4 speed.
    I found a set of raw steel headers and sidepipes and had them ceramic coated black
    trying to post pics but haveing issues
    car when found
    http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a351/Tonystoys123/01212_5ZAvrSdG4Q7_600x450_zps3782649a.jpg

    [URL=http://s15.photobucket.com/user/Tonystoys123/media/01212_5ZAvrSdG4Q7_600x450_zps3782649a.jpg.html][IMG]http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a351/Tonystoys123/th_01212_5ZAvrSdG4Q7_600x450_zps3782649a.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

  10. tony riva

    alot of people online like to talk shit about it but i have to say anyone that has seen it in person seems to love it and thinks its great. pictures cannot do the paint justice.
    I know its not everyones cup of tea a some will hate it and thats all good its mine and i will do to it what i like i didnt build it for someone else LOL

    http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a351/Tonystoys123/newengine_zpsb49d1b17.jpg
    http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a351/Tonystoys123/Picture270_zpsa4c9760e.jpg
    http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a351/Tonystoys123/Picture273_zps9cb34aeb.jpg
    http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a351/Tonystoys123/out1_zps7d897dc5.jpg

  11. tony riva

    LOL it has been called alot of things cobrette,vettefurd,abomonation,frankinvette,dentity crisis,pos,awesome,wicked,wtf?,whatever it is i call it mine
    It is insanely fun to drive and i cant tell you how much fun it is to see peoples reaction to it
    Its loud and obnoxious and attention grabbing to say the least
    some will love it (the ones that get it) and others will hate it.
    im fine with that just enjoy your hot rod whatever it is!!!

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