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HI I HAVE RECENTLY OBTAINED TWO FRONT COBRA SEATS BUT NO REAR BECAUSE THE PERSON I GOT THEM OFF SAID THEY WERE OUT OF AN ORIGINAL COBRA UTE AS I DIDNT BELIEVE HIM AT FIRST AND JUST WENT ALONG WITH IT THEN I WAS TOLD THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS A COBRA UTE THEN SOMEONE ELSE TOLD ME THERE WAS ONLY A COUPLE MADE FOR SOME BATHURST SPECIAL.NOT SURE HOW MANY MADE BUT HE SAID ONLY 2 WERE EVER MADE.SO CAN ANYONE TELL ME IF IT IS TRUE OR IF THEY ARE JUST NORMAL XC COBRA COUPE SEATS..
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Do your seats have the lever to fold them forward or only the turning knob?
Are they the original cobra trim (stripes) or solid black like the Bathurst
Cobra seats were, sounds sus? Pictures?
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Sounds like he's pulling your Pudd!!
But if the seats are in good nick and they suit your purpose I guess it doesn't really matter in the end.
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There were a few promo cobra utes made as well as a one or more cobra transit vans. I have a photo here in one of my ford books of all three used in a promotional add.
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Now that you have said that, I do remember someone talking about them not that long ago. Probably on this site too.
Who were they made by? Was it a factory thing or a dealer organised promotion.
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Not sure if factory or dealer but the pics were in the History of Ford in Australia book. Got the book when the XFs were still being advertised as the "NEW" falcon so it is long out of print.
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I just had a flick through an old book that I have called 'Ford Falcon - the 1st Twenty Five Years' thinking it may have been the same book but it did not have them in it.
It had plenty of stuff on the Cobra coupe though. A 'real stinger' as they called
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yeah i have seen pics of the f100 and transit vans,i thought they were fomoco promotional cars
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HI THE SEATS ARE BLACK VINYLY ON THE BACK AND ALL DOWN THE FRONT HAVE THE BLUE STRIPES ON THE THE LIGHT BLUEY GREY COLOUR
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That's right there were the F100 cobra promo cars too. I have been told that a Ford dealer also had some XC sedans done in Cobra colours with the full stripes and black and blue interior. Can't remember which dealer did it but apparently they did sell a
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XB man, do the seats have the tilting mechanism in the seat or do they have just a winder? There is no real way of telling if they were genuine Cobra seats unless you can find a Cobra missing its front seats. Where abouts did you find them? If it was i
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There definitely were some dealers who optioned up some sedans as 'Cobras'.
I have read on a forum somewhere where a guy was valiantly trying to defend his cobra sedan as the real deal because he had bought it new from the dealer like that.
He was c
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i got the seats off my cousins mate he did have a ute done in cobra colours but i always thought it was just something he done himself.then i found out through my cousin that he sold the ute found out later that it was supposed to be a genuine cobra ute a
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Have you worked out if they are cobra seats or not ?and what condition are they in cheers
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well to me they look like cobra seats by the pattern on the seats they have the wheel on the side to wind them and a lever at the front to slide them back and forth.they are in good condition driver side has small tear thats about it
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If they don't have the tilt lever on them then they aren't out of a Cobra coupe. Might be out of one of the cobra utes, might be just a good copy. As long as they do the job you want it doesn't really matter.
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well they said the seats were out of a cobra ute
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