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I saw my first real Cobra when I was a teenager. A girl I knew had a next-door-neighbor who SCAA raced a 289. It was Viking Blue. Also I went to summer school one year and one of the local Ford dealer's kids in Houston had one, also a 289. Never saw anymore until I went overseas to London, UK to work and live in 1989. I saw a kit car cobra one morning while going to work near Hyde Park Corner. Later that week I saw a kit car magazine and got hooked. I learned how the "kit car industry started in Great Britain", and visited almost all the active Cobra manufacturers while i was there before returning to the US in 1996.
In 2000 I bought a body from B&B. I taught myself how to MIG weld and have been working off and on on my Cobra ever since. I have had 2 Carpal Tunnel surgeries, 2 complete knee replacements, 1 right hip replacement, and 2 abdominal surgeries. Last year i was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes and Radial Neuropathy due to Agent Orange exposure when I was in the Marines in Viet Nam. I am now waiting on disability from the VA. So it has been a start and stop proposition from the get-go. I am 58 now, but I still have something to look forward to... One of these days it will be finished!!...Vrooommm!!!