1978 Cobra II Mustang Cold Start and Circled
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- This 1978 Cobra II Mustang was bought new by my mother and long story short, it was lost and then found and slowly restored.
While it's not driven at all during the winter season, it does tend to have miles put on it throughout the month in which it is warm enough.
Visually it looks good, there are numerous flaws and chips/cracks and rust in which need to be touched up externally. But overall the body shape and condition are considered excellent for it's age.
Modifications done:
Original 302 (burned up by unknown owner) swapped with a heavily piecemealed together parts from various ages of mustang 302's, with most of the components from a 1984 Mustang GT's 302.
Cruise Control installed
Rear leaf springs were completely broken and W'd, replaced the 4 leaf with a higher ride 5 leaf using 3" shackles.
EGR deleted spacer plate combined with a Holly Quickfuel HR-650 double pumper carburator
Stereo system mock up installed with 2 quality pioneer door speakers and a set of rear kenwood 6x9s and a 10" woofer. 4 speakers driven by a 160x4 deck and woofer by a 400watt external amp solo.
Custom 15" Rear Rims to best match stock originals in design, painted and machined for original hubcaps. (fronts are original 13" still with largest available tire). Rear tires are 295/50R15. Mudflaps incoming soon.
Some lights have had LED replacements, more external and internal lighting changes to come.
Forget the haters. You have a nice Cobra!
Funny i never cared for them when they came out , but now it looks stunning as compared to today generic boxes
Today's cars may have some speed. But, that's it. For the most part, they're ugly as F. They ride like crap and the sensation of being pulled (front drive) vs pushed is not even close. I drive an old Lincoln town car. V rear drive. Real bumpers and power everything. I'd hate to be in one of those disposable douche cars that gets involved in an accident with my car. It will crush the little economy car and whoever is in it.
The last 35 years of Automotive Melted jelly bean/stealth fighter styling have certainly improved its Pinto-esque heritage. Love the White and green.
That's a good looking car! I remember seeing these models as a kid.
Very cool little ride.
Gorgeous Cobra Mustang ll!!!
Knew of 3 nice ones, a guy from high school had an orange t top 302 equipped car, not a bad car. Another guy I went to grade school with had a black w/ red orange striped Cobra 2 witha mild 302 4sp, very peppy. Another aquaintance had a Cobra repainted med metallic blue with a supercharged 351w in it... that was a scary car...
I'm currently in the process of saving up some money to rebuild the 351C to shoehorn into this one, I know the 351w in one of these cars is scary, hell even the 302 HO with the double pumper i've got on it was enough to make it kind of concerning (roughly 230hp), so i can only imagine how much a 351C with about 300-330hp or more might do depending on if i can get the rebuild i'd like done to it.
One of the highest selling vehicles for ford, and everyone ripped around with them until they destroyed them or blew them up.
Tears... I have tears I have told people for years that the Cobra two came in White and Green
It certainly did, though if i recall the sales stats, it was sold a bit more often than the white with yellow striped versions.
What people insist about this car though is the front rims "didnt come with that car!", this car came from factory with 4 identical rims that looked like that except for the fact that for some reason, they had a red pin stripe instead of the green that is currently on it.
I had also planned to replace the red reflector lens in the center of the cap that it came stock with, with green ones but good bloody luck finding any green ones, let alone any that would fit, thus they remain.
Also we do have the original what was it, 29:1 ratio scale model of this car in the same stripe and colour package.
Absolutely stunning
In the day? Guy in Muskegon Michigan had a black King Cobra with a tunnel ram and nasty cam.
Always wondered how that green striping package would look like on a black car?? They did it on the 80/81 versions.
Open the garage door. Always a good idea.
i believe when this video was made, it was raining outside...
One of the most anemic muscle cars ever made. This car suffered from all of the EPA-meddling in air polution requirements, so performance severely suffered.
In western canada, where the rules were lax and dealers actually offerred factory options that you couldnt find anywhere else, not all dealerships obviously, but some, you could drive the car new "unmodified" off the lot with over 180hp due to the lack egr/smog pump/etc, and even have the engine pretuned to avoid the somewhat lagging timing normally stock on them. Some of them offerred 4 barrel changeovers by the dealership the VINs were stamped one way to get by inspection so to speak but one the hood was popped, there would be a surprise for those that didnt know.
This one was raced stock at a close international raceway and often surprised the crowds and mustang II haters, even to go as far as claiming it was superstock or in the wrong racing class. A shelf full of trophies and ribbons collected.
The good though was that for as lackluster man of them were sold as, it cost nothing at the time to swap in new parts for big power boosts.
Nice Pinto!
It is kind of like a V8 Pinto, to me.
can't help it that the pinto was based off the new unibody design of the mustang. was the early 70's afterall.
Looks like a Florida cop car
Just hope that no one rear ends you, they tend to burst into flames from a rear end collision 💥. But hey it was the 70's safety wasn't a factor in anything back then.😂
Ah, that myth again. It's amazing how a story gets told, and it just gets perpetuated indefinitely. Did you know that the number of rear enders on these cars didn't result in fires? Do you believe it's a near guarantee that it would happen everytime? You have any idea what was statistically discovered in that court case? First off any of the 76 and newer had a redesign anyways just to satisfy the publics unnecessary concerns, retrofits were probided for older models. Secondly there were significantly more vehicle fires in other brends and models that managed to not get nearly as much coverage. Even in the 70s things were sensationalized.
Pretty much any vehicle with a rear mounted fuel tank was at risk, and since that was so common, it was shown that you hit any one of them just right and presto, fireball, with doors jammed shut. "But the M2 didnt need to be hit that hard", still need a solid perfect hit, not to mention literally any of vehicle with the same tank positions.
Also in the grand schemes of safety, even 90s vegicles have next to nothing in advantages in the safety realms over the 60s and 70s, we didnt see nearly indestructible cages with all round air bags until later in 2000s, and frankly modern vehicles are grossly disapointing imo.
@@SpectrumTwist
And your second paragraph sums it up for the 70's automobiles. As they all had rear mounted gas tanks.
Their is a whole thing. About square bodies exploding when T-boned. The fuel tank is out side the frame. It was all over the news. But nobody cared.
Rad II love the color combination!
@SpectrumTwist I'd take this Mustang over any newer car, and I drive a newer car everyday. The technology gets annoying and wears out and good luck fixing any of it when the cars are old
Maravilhoso 🎱☠
Cool ride, I'd rather have it with polished aluminum rims.
Polished rims on this one just didn't look right (briefly had them while testing offsets). Everyone agreed it didn't look right.
However, another cobra II had a lot of polished chrome around where the black paint typically would be, and chrome side loovers and rear. That car definitely looked great with the polished rims. Frankly, it had to have polished rims, anything else would look out of place.
@@SpectrumTwist so are these factory 'white' rims or have they been painted/powder coated ?
They do suit the car for sure.
Sweet car.
@skxj as seen in on the front, those are factory rims with the exception that originally they had a red pin stripe around the edge instead of the green. Ive the other 2 originals sitting in storage since trying to find tires that are any decent size anymore is near impossible. Without paying for an insanely costly cnc duplication of the factory rims sized to 15 inch, i instead opted for the closest match of a custom set available for production already. Perhaps if i ever get enough cash, ill get the proper ones better natched to factory made.
But yes the factory ones were indeed white with those hubcaps.
@@SpectrumTwist right, those cars had (13" ?) 14" rims with either a BBS weave looking wheel or the slot mags.
Tire selection today must be brutal for those small rims. Well it looks good with those rims but ya it'd be nice to have some custom rims made up for it one day. Cool ride.
@skxj far as i could find, they all were 13", none of them had an option for 14". I considered putting 14s on the front since there are at least a few tires out there for 14s still, but even 13s with the tires on it already rub making some turns. And if i get tge 351C slid in, theres a chance i may have to do subtle mods to the fenders to make the exhaust fit. But i hope to avoid too much modification of original body.
Pretty much all of the cobra II had the 2 style of rims you mentioned, i think however that the 78 had a 3rd option as a custom option with a bumped price for a 5.5" wide white rim as seen on the front. Might have been available in 77, i just know they appear to be rare even for the sales numbers, not man opted for the special white rim.
140 sizzling hp😂
Except this one came stock with nearly 200 since theres a bit of a weird situation in which the california laws were ignored and the 302 wasnt gimped from factory for some of the mid western canada dealerships. Wasnt uncommon for even some dealerships to offer a 2 barrel to 4 barrel intake and carb swap before even signing the papers. Not to mention many spent an additional couple hundred to pop it well above 250hp since the engine was good for it.
Those are still the ugliest mustangs made!