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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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