[Cobra #3170]

I picked my car up from the airport facility on a rainy Friday night in November of 1965. They did not have the 9.5" rear wheels available at time of delivery so I got the 7.5" rears with blue dots. The engine was blue printed and probably made on the order of 450-475 HP as delivered. We had to drive it back to Fresno in the rain and in 5:00 PM traffic in LA, not a fun experience. The Blue dots were not a very good dry tire and certainly not a good wet tire so it was white knuckles from LA to Bakersfield where it stopped raining. The car had the side curtains on and the top up and the heater/defroster were pretty much non functional. I was cussing myself for trading my nice 63 FI Stingray for this crude imitation of a car until I opened the throttle for the first time outside of Bakersfield. After lighting the tires at 80 mph I decided buying the car was the best thing I could have ever done and have thought so since.