Hi from a non-Cobra owner

[dingocooke]

Hi and welcome!!
Ironically there is another Cob forum Snaketorque - the cobra replica forum and message board - Index and I think the owner of that forum has a P4 (Penello??) small world.
What engine/tranny lives in P4 rep??

[P4Replica]

Originally Posted by dingocooke

Hi and welcome!!
Ironically there is another Cob forum Snaketorque - the cobra replica forum and message board - Index and I think the owner of that forum has a P4 (Penello??) small world.
What engine/tranny lives in P4 rep??

Funny you should say that - that was the 'dodgy link' I put in my previous post.
And Yes, I'm well aware of that other owner, and his Noble P4. He's an ex-member of my forum (too).
His car is Cossie Turbo powered. Ironic too, that he wrote this on your forum a few years back:

http://www.cobraclub.com/forum/62542-post2.html

Mine ? - almost 'stock' Renault PRV V-6 - the way Lee Noble used to build them (back when).
If you scroll to post #39 (of that SuperCars.net thread), from the link in post #3 - full spec' is there.

In an ideal world (and with a small lottery win), I think I'd like to upgrade it to a Ferrari 348 V-8 set-up, which a few Noble P4 owners have done now. Maybe with TWM throttle bodies and Motec, too, just to pretty it up. But that's a (very expensive) pipe dream.

[dave.n]

Originally Posted by dingocooke

Hi and welcome!!
Ironically there is another Cob forum Snaketorque - the cobra replica forum and message board - Index and I think the owner of that forum has a P4 (Penello??) small world.
What engine/tranny lives in P4 rep??

Firstly Hello Paul


Secondly Steve
Paul is quite aware of the Snaketorque forum.

[P4Replica]

Originally Posted by dave.n

Paul is quite aware of the Snaketorque forum.

I am indeed.

That's partly the reason I worded my first post thus:

Originally Posted by P4Replica

.... I thought I ought to make an introductory post, before anyone accuses me of 'lurking'.

[dingocooke]

Originally Posted by dave.n

Firstly Hello Paul


Secondly Steve
Paul is quite aware of the Snaketorque forum.

I was only being friendly, I thought he could get the angle on cobs from a fellow P4 owner...

[wilf]

On a similar but tangential note - I read somewhere recently that Lee Noble has now fallen out with the new (American) owners of Noble Cars and has left? Anyone know any more?

[P4Replica]

Originally Posted by dingocooke

I was only being friendly, I thought he could get the angle on cobs from a fellow P4 owner...

Steve. Yes - I fully realize that. No worries.
You weren't to know, but I've taken 'a bit' of a mauling / back-stabbing / character assassination on 'snaketorque' (aptly named).

The owner of that Noble P4 - a.k.a. 'smash' has abused his (or any 'normal' forum admistrator's) privileges on there, by editing my profile; signature; post content - to suit his own twisted ends.

I don't know his past history on here, but he effectively 'banned himself' from my P4 Replica BB forum, by deleting his user ID.
One of the reasons I walked over to the Cobra Replica Club stand at Stoneleigh, last weekend, was to confront him ....
.... and possibly try to offer a 'flag of truce'. But as it turned out, he wasn't there anyway - Maybe just as well ....

[dingocooke]

Originally Posted by wilf

On a similar but tangential note - I read somewhere recently that Lee Noble has now fallen out with the new (American) owners of Noble Cars and has left? Anyone know any more?

Wilf I think all the rumours are here:



Lee Noble has left the building...

[dingocooke]

Originally Posted by P4Replica

Steve. Yes - I fully realize that. No worries.
You weren't to know, but I've taken 'a bit' of a mauling / back-stabbing / character assassination on 'snaketorque' (aptly named).

The owner of that Noble P4 - a.k.a. 'smash' has abused his (or any 'normal' forum admistrator's) privileges on there, by editing my profile; signature; post content - to suit his own twisted ends.

I don't know his past history on here, but he effectively 'banned himself' from my P4 Replica BB forum, by deleting his user ID.
One of the reasons I walked over to the Cobra Replica Club stand at Stoneleigh, last weekend, was to confront him ....
.... and possibly try to offer a 'flag of truce'. But as it turned out, he wasn't there anyway - Maybe just as well ....

OK didnt know (removes foot from mouth!!)

[P4Replica]

Originally Posted by wilf

On a similar but tangential note - I read somewhere recently that Lee Noble has now fallen out with the new (American) owners of Noble Cars and has left? Anyone know any more?

Yes, it's true. Lee apparently parted company (leaving under a cloud) with Noble Cars, as far back as February this year.

There's a (long) thread in the Noble section on Pistonheads (Gassing Station), entitled:

Lee Noble has left the building... (Google it). I'd put in a direct link, but you know how it is.

Edit: You beat be to it, Steve !