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    RACE BRED

    Aug 02, 2019 6 minutes
    WORDS: CONNAL GRACE
    PHOTOS: RICHARD OPIE

    “I’ve always been a fan of the look of the XC Cobra coupe, having seen my first one on the way home from school one day in the mid ’80s,” Philip Macey explains of his latest road-race build.

    This convincing DJR XC Cobra lookalike appears to have been built by a professional because, in a way, it has. Philip has done this before. An accountant by profession, he isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty and is the proud owner of the amazing Palmer Tube Mills DJR XE replica that we featured back in Issue No. 99. If that car was cool, this one is ice cold.

    “Unlike the XE, this build started as a full Cobra road car replica. However, as time progressed. the decision to make a race car was made,” Philip says. “One of my ambitions is to take a car to Aussie and run at Bathurst and maybe a Targa, so

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