Cobra @ Dart

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Dad had a minor service done on the Vette at the weekend and I went down to pick it with him on saturday morning. The Garage doing the work are an American car specialist and apart from the selection of old and newer Corvettes sitting around, there was also this Dax Cobra. Believe it or not this is a company car and the owner paid for the work on a company credit card!

When they fired it up and a series of explosions burst out of the twin side exit hand welded exhausts. This made it a lot easier to convince Dad he should get the exhausts changed on his car.

We got chatting and asked what it came in for. Apparently it has a 6.4 Litre V8 that prior to being taken to Dart was only running on 5 cylinders. they fitted a complete new ignition system amongst other things and the car was now running in excess of 400bhp! Not content with this unnecessary power, he asked if Dart had any Blowers in stock. Apparently they did and for another 3500 pounds they could fit a supercharger and boost the power to an incredible 600bhp! He drove off wearing gloves, goggles and an open faced helmet - apparently he'd absolutely frozen by the time he reached Brighton - from Kent!