Quote Originally Posted by 02Z06 View Post
Alrighty, I emailed him and got things cleared up. Roush235 was right, the discrepancy was the black cars:
"Chris, Well, I found something interesting by doing a little more digging. All the Cobras were tu-toned as you suggested. The terminology used in some of the material I was looking at suggested they were thinking of doing the tu-tone delete. Instead, what the difference represents is what is known as the Cobra Alternate. This is the black Cobra with the green exterior accents. So now you know there were 938 of these produced.

Incidentally, I should have all the original invoices for these cars. I bought the entire collection of invoices that Lois Eminger had and I believe it included the 79-81 Mustangs. Time will tell. They are all warehoused on pallets until I can get more space to access them."
That makes me feel much better! So I guess it's all set with a production number of 17,579 for ALL Cobras in 1979. I'm betting that the '80 has less and that 1981 has the least of all.