[FredG]

Where should I start as to what I don't like about the original car. I don't like the color, wire wheels, ride height, over sized bumperettes, gas filler, fender shape both front an rear, roll bar and the overall shape of the way the body is curved.
In all seriousness, I am old enough to remember when the Cobras were introduced. No one wanted them. They looked too much like a cheap little European Sports car and weren't very practical. Something akin to the MG, Triumph and Austin Healy. We considered them a West Coast novelty item that was built strictly to be a road race car and of course it was a successful one but that was meaningless to us. It was the muscle car era and the Cobras didn't appeal. Probably why so few of them were produced. My car looks nothing like the original and I am thankful for that because if it did, I would never have given it a second look. I am enjoying all the little refinements and design changes both mechanically and aesthetically that make my car what is in relation to the originals.

Fred