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CSX 3015 is the real deal. Powered by a 427ci V8 engine CSX 3015 was transformed into the Super Snake and
with two Paxton superchargers and an automatic reclassified as 427 Cobra Semi-Competition (SC). The
transmission, it is one of 23 427 competition roadsters reason was quite simple: a 427 Cobra Competition
built. On September 7, 1965, CSX 3015 was shipped and didn’t have mufflers, windshield, bumpers, etc. It was a
invoiced to Ford Advanced Vehicles, England, as a 427 race car only and not street legal. Although many SCs
Cobra Competition roadster, together with CSX 3014 were raced and never saw a public road, all 427 Cobra
(another 427 Cobra Competition) and two R-model SCs had titles and were legal to drive on public roads.
Shelbys (5R107 and 5R209) for a European promotional 427 competition and SC Cobras have different hips and
tour. It returned from Europe in late 1966 still as a 427 noses. The February 1968 Road & Track pictures of CSX
Cobra Competition. Sometime early to mid-1967, 3015 reference the hips and nose of a 427 competition
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