Midwest Cobras

The Cobra, assembled

A Cobra roadster standing in a dark hall, three-quarter view from the front
01 · Chassis Chassis Tube frame, four-wheel independent. Everything after this happens to it.
02 · Discs and calipers Discs and calipers Four corners, fitted outboard before anything covers them.
03 · Wheels and tyres Wheels and tyres Eighteen inch. The first thing seen from ten feet away and the last thing chosen.
04 · Body Body Lowered on in one piece, the way it goes on at the factory.
05 · Interior Interior Upholstery, carpet and the shifter, in before the panels close over them.
06 · Controls Controls Wheel, gauges, needles. The part of the car you spend the drive looking at.
07 · Bonnet Bonnet Over the engine bay. Last panel on the front, and the one that gets opened most.
08 · Boot Boot In from behind. What there is of it.
09 · Glass and mirror Glass and mirror A screen, and the single mirror this car is built with.
10 · Lamps Lamps The last part fitted, and the only one that does anything once it is on.
RT4 Classic Edition · from $66,900

Featured inventory

Lot 01 · available

A Cobra beside a bare chassis on a workshop floor — stand-in photography, see docs/content-ledger.md

RT4 Classic Edition

ModelRT4 Classic
From$66,900
Wheels18 in
Side pipesCeramic-coated
Full specification

Lot 02 · available

A black Cobra, front three-quarter — stand-in photography, see docs/content-ledger.md

RT4B Black Edition

ModelRT4B Black
From$70,500
RimsMatte black, 18 in
Roll barsCeramic-coated
Full specification

Build

Specify it to the last bolt.

The factory takes these decisions over the phone. Here you can see them, one at a time, with the car turning to face whichever one you are making.

01 Model RT4 · RT4B
02 Body and colour Paint · stripes
03 Wheels and stance 18 in
04 Pipes and roll bars Ceramic-coated
05 Interior Upholstery · gauges
06 Trim and details Badging · stitching

Who we are

Forty years of putting people in cars that should not exist.

Midwest Cobras builds, sells, services and moves Backdraft Cobras. The work is the same work it has always been: a car arrives as parts and leaves as somebody's.

40 years, to confirm
2 models built
1 car at a time
A 427 induction stack under an open bonnet — stand-in photography, see docs/content-ledger.md

Services

After it is yours

01

Tune-up and service

These are not cars a general workshop sees twice a year. Setup, carburetion, cooling, brakes and the annual going-over, done by people who have the car's own build sheet in front of them.

Book service

02

Transportation

Enclosed transport to and from the shop, to an event, or to a new owner. The car does not arrive on an open trailer behind somebody's pickup.

Arrange transport

Consignment

Already have one?

Let us find its next garage.

Consign your Cobra

Owners

Where the cars end up

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Events

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