[boblyon1]

FST FOX - What a neat thread - I've really enjoyed reading all the stories.

For me, as a teen growing up in the Detroit suburbs, and with a father who formulated racing fuels, I spend a number of weekends watching jags, corvettes and ferraris race on a nearby track. Then, one day, in the mid sixties, a Cobra entered the field and began wiping the others off the track. It was both love and lust at first sight. What an amazing combination of power, nimbleness and beauty. Like others, I could not afford such a beast. Later, as a "responsible" family man, I could only drool over the snakes I saw on the road or in shows. My (now Ex) wife could never understand why I would roll down the car windows just to hear those side pipes. Even today, that sound brings back such fond memories.

Well, more than 40 years have past. The kids have flown the coop, the wife is gone and I'm retired. I started dreaming, researching, then test-driving Cobras about three months ago. I finally settled on a small block SPF, deciding that they seem to hold their value so well that I can probably sell it for about what I paid for it, if pressed for cash. Now that SPF 633 is in my garage, I still can't seem to wipe the S... E....... grin off my face. I find myself flipping on the light and opening the garage door at night just to look at this magnificent machine. I listen carefully, and sometimes it whispers, "I want to run". My neighbors think I'm crazy when I take it out for a short spin at midnight. Oh well, 18 again in a 62 year old body. What a rush. I WILL NOT have to go to my grave wishing and hoping, and I would encourage others to take the plunge. You WON'T be sorry!!