This Pristine Cobra R with 19 Miles Is Stupid
Gorgeous Cobra R needs all this plastic and tape removed and should immediately be taken out of the hands of its careless owner.
We’re not shy about the fact that we’re sternly against the concept of never driving a car for the sake of keeping it nice. Cars are meant to be driven and there’s no shortage of garage queens sitting with no hope of seeing a road any time soon. It’s downright offensive. However, it’s even more offensive when the car is something truly developed for legitimate driving and performance enthusiasts. You’d think you’d have to be a driving enthusiast to buy such a car, but this Cobra R stands out as a great example of proof of the opposite of that concept.
This car appeared in the “Low Miles No Miles” Facebook group and it’s enough to make a Mustang fan gag. The New Edge Cobra R stands out as the epitome of Mustang racing capability for its time. Moreover, it is one of the most hardcore driver’s Mustangs ever produced. So, it’s sickening to see it a step above showroom condition in a warehouse full of other pointless timepieces. It’s still wearing all of its delivery plastics and tape. Likely, the adhesive has become fouled goop by now. So, there’s a slight chance that the owner’s quest to preserve it backfired a bit. Frankly, it feels a bit deserved.
Pony Cars are Meant to Run
You can almost hear a non-descript old collector bragging about how nobody has ever sat on the seat material. Nobody’s skin has ever touched the bare shift knob, nobody’s dirty shoes have ever fouled up the carpets and so on. You can certainly feel that non-descript person’s pride. That pride, though, is undeserved. This Cobra R only has 19 miles on the odometer, which should be a crime.
All that also means that this car has never been driven the way SVT engineers spent countless hours specifically preparing for it to be driven. The post says no dealer even prepared it for sale. It’s fresh off the truck as a brand-new car. Twenty-four years of sitting. Any true car enthusiast can plainly see why that’s a problem. This clearly wasn’t a purchase for the sake of enjoyment. Instead, it’s a trophy. It’s a bragging right and, worst of all, an “investment.”
Set This Cobra R Free
We understand wanting to keep your car nice. We understand wanting to drive it sparingly to keep the mileage relatively low in the interest of re-sale. We’re still fairly against the latter, but for the love of god, drive the car. If it were meant to be in a museum, it would be in a museum. You might take note of the fact, too, that most cars of any significance in a museum have been driven. Worse yet, if you look in the background of the pictures, there appears to be a Foxbody Cobra R, too, along with a host of other makes and models in similar condition. One of them is a Dick Harrell Camaro, one of only 30 ever built, and it still has window stickers. If we had to venture a guess, it’s probably never seen the light of day, either.
Our goal isn’t to lambast solely the owner of this Cobra R. It’s to lambast all folks with this mindset. The Cobra R is a limited-edition vehicle that Ford only made 300 examples of. It’s a N/A piece of Mustang magic that longs to be on the track and this owner, as well as a handful of others, have ensured that they saw no more than 100 miles of usage. You can bet your bottom dollar that if any of us at The Mustang Source happened to win the lottery, we’d be buying one of these crazy low-mileage cars and taking it straight to a race track so that it can finally fulfill its destiny. Stop doing this and go buy a painting if you want your assets to sit and be ogled while you brag about their rarity.
Photos: Graceson Ledford/Facebook