[Hal Copple]

well, about a year or so ago, when i was particularily peeved about The Lawsuit, i decided to no longer refer to my SPF as a "Cobra."

And probably unknown to any one who has ever read one of my posts, i haven't since. It is many things to me, usually a Replica here, but never a cobra nor a Cobra. I have a Superformance Decal on the windshield, and when folks ask what my car is, i tell them such, and point to the windshield with a smile. Around home, the family and I refer to our replica as "the snake."

If Carroll Shelby had decided to call his race and street car The Tarantula, would we argue about whose arachnid was the most authentic, or the righful heir to the Web? Would then the Italians argue about what was really a "spyder?"

I'll ask Abby for her opinion, she understands this more than i do.