King Cobra

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Joel Rosen [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/worship.gif[/img] with the Motion Perf King Cobra. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

That year, Rosen helped launch the
new operation by running no less than
two Cobras under the Motion Perform-
ance banner. Most of the thrust was
placed on a 427 Cobra owned by Clem
Hoppe and built, tuned and driven by
Joel Rosen. The injected small block Co-
bra took a backseat to the ferocious 427
Cobra dubbed King Cobra.
During Motion's early years, racing
activities were of a low profile nature,
but whenever possible. Rosen usually
drove shop-sponsored cars to and from
the dragstrip, but that wasn't possible
with the injected Cobra. However, the
blueprinted medium riser 427 in the
King Cobra could be managed on the
street. And, Rosen drove it everywhere.
It's interesting to note that Rosen's
first run with the King Cobra netted
him a 11.90 time slip running against
an 11.40 record in the old NASCAR drag
racing books, Later, while running
against this record at a NASCAR sanc-
tioned track, he set a new record with
the King Cobra at 131 mph in 10.64 sec-
onds. Then he tried his luck with
NHRA. At the 1966 National record
runs at Atco, New Jersey, Rosen blasted
the standing record.After driving more
than 3 1/2 hours to Atco in an open 427
Cobra, he changed the plugs and tires
and made his pass. After set ting the re-
cord at 10.67 seconds, he put the street
plugs back in, changed to street tires
and drove back home. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/[/img]