[Edley Rondinone]

Took my Cobra to the "Cruisin' Tunes Car Show" Saturday at Canoga Park High School in the San Fernando valley of Los Angeles. We parked in the parking lot adjacent to the "show", as I had an appointment for early in the afternoon.
The "Cruisin" part you all understand, typical car show entrants. The "Tunes" part was a little less plausible: crappy 50's and 60's music, played too loud, over crappy speakers, played by a balding, overweight ex-hippie with a mullet/ponytail, doing a bad Casey Kasem impression as he rattled off the usual 50/50 proceeds, who the show was for, etc etc etc.
Anyhoo, the Cobra attracted quite a few bystanders as we rumbled into the parking lot, and there was always a few people standing around the Cobra, admiring its' classic lines and beautiful curves, as it sat there ticking the heat from its headers and sidepipes.
There was this one hottie teenager chick, (rivalling UncleTodd's Sweetness!), all short-shorts and clingy tank top, videotaping the cars and trucks at the show, and I saw her come over to the Cobra, video-cam whirring in her hands.
She kept saying "This is a COOL car! This is a COOL car!" I told her if she showed me how the videocam worked, I would video her sitting in the Cobra. She stopped taping, looked at me with a BIG smile, and said "Sure!" So she hopped in, and one of her girlfriends hopped into the passenger seat, me and the videocam whirring away. (I didnt even KNOW I could whirr!)
Now the hottie was saying "This "This car is SO Cool! This car is SO COOL!" "This car is WAY COOLER than my car!" I asked her what car she drove, and she pointed out a clean '68 Camaro convertible that her dad had just finished restoring, and was letting his daughter drive it to the show for the first time. (I was glad it wasnt a ricer!) I told her that her Camaro was still a nice car, but she kept on saying that my Cobra was "WAY COOLER than her Camaro"!
A short while later, as I was pulling out of the parking lot to leave, she was right there with the videocam, taping all the sound and fury as I rumbled away that hot Saturday afternoon!. Yeah, I think she gets it.