Coach Mike and I have drove our Cobras for the last 6 winters. He drives every week that it does not rain, he has more stress in his job.
We have very little snow in North Alabama and the winter temperatures are high twenty's to sixty's. This week is 30 to 55. A heater does make a lot of different with no top. Our heater ducts are set to blow in out lap / knee area. You can take a glove off and warm you hand, it's not much but just knowing you have heat makes a big different to me. Short trip in town, the heater does better in keeping you warm but on the open road you need more cold weather clothes. I have a leather pilot helmet to keep my ears warm and a scarf around my neck, that is a must for me because I hate cold weather.
A Cobra is a big boy's toy but it can be a year round toy. People still wave at you but they have that, "Your crazy", look on their face.
When we drive to the London Cobra Shows we leave Florence at 10:00 PM and drive all night thru Tenn. and Kentucky. It's cool "in them thar hills" and I have my heater till the sun comes up.
Yup, a Cobra around here needs a heater.
Dwight