Burying the hatchet made sense. To be truthful, we knew this new Mustang would be good. But to find out how well Ford had captured in it the spirit of yore, we determined to immerse ourselves in all things Shelby and all things Cobra. We decided to trace Shelby s trail from the early Sixties, when he first touched down in Southern California with the fateful idea of building a new kind of sports car, up through the present day. A red 1999 Ford SVT Mustang Cobra convertible, waiting when we touched down in Los Angeles, would be our point of comparison as well as a rapid observation platform.
Mustang Cobra is faster than most everything, including other Mustangs.
Thanks to it and the attendant excision of 125 pounds of unsprung weight, the SVT Stang no longer threatens to bounce, in approved muscle-car fashion, into adjacent police jurisdictions when confronted by bumpy corners. Thanks to a generous complement of overhead camshafts, it has an engine that is boldly unafraid to inhale. An electrically powered folding soft top did nothing to diminish our enjoyment. On one side, Moon s famous tenant ran his newly acquired Goodyear Tire distributorship. On the other was his unlikely project.