I'm 48 years young and have been bitten since I saw my first Cobra back in '66. We lived a short distance from Wood-Larkin Ford in Toronto Ontario, Canada and they had a performance shop that I used to go to on a summer evening when the doors would be open and just watch them work on the cars. Besides Cobras there was an A/FX car there called the "GOLDIGGER", saw a GT-40 there once, and Shelby Mustangs. Since the price of a new Cobra was about almost double that of my dad's Chrysler 300 I knew the idea of this being my first car was not a good one. After years of trying different cars some good ('67 Corvette,'69 Cuda S) some bad ('72 Gremlin)I just had to have a Cobra so there was a 289 for sale but by the time I saved $1,000. the price seemed to go up $ 2,000. so I gave up the idea until '79-'80 when I learned about kits. The replica idea really intrested me but I couldn't find a 289. So in '81 I purchased a body shell only from Aurora Cars which was the 2nd or 3rd body out of the mould that was still exactly like the original 289 they took the mould from and a chassis custom built for me. The car was first driven in the spring of '85 and I still have it today. In '93 I purchased an ,81 Aurora MKII proceeded to tear it apart and rebodied it with a Johnex FIA body. By now you might have guessed I prefer the 289 cars over the 427's. Enough said I will probably not here the end of this for some time.