I had an opportunity to drive this car for about a mile down the road. The interior space is definitely roomier than my Cobra, I would love to have this car for a daily driver. It does need more power and torque, something that a Roots ; or to a lesser extent a centrifugal blower could make up for. I can only imagine how expensive it could have been if they did decided to supercharge it back then. Out the door new it cost about $30.000. When the Marauder concept car came out about a year or two before production, that car had a 4.6 SOHC supercharger in it. Mercury was even toying with a convertible model, then shortly thereafter, Marauder production was stopped forever.
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1996 Mustang Cobra. Vortech Kompressor installed.
Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
Adolf Galland