Another future former Cobra owner

[FIA-ERA]

Where's the Popcorn! Maybe PatrickT meant to say real cobra owners only have one roll bar?

[FIA-ERA]

Hey twobjshelbys's , just buy a FIA Cobra and all your problems are solved! Under car exhaust (no snake bites), little cooler temp wise, still pretty darn fast, better handling, etc. My wife actually wants me to keep my car now, she loves riding in it!

[dcdoug]

Although after all the sh!it he went through getting that engine sorted out, I can't believe he's selling it now.

[ratsnst1]

Originally Posted by twobjshelbys

I've gotten a handful of queries about "why" so I thought I'd give a little bit of an explanation.

I love myobra. It is "all the fun you can have, legally, in public, with your clothes on". Now that the engine really is running, I have been driving it more, and my wife and I went for a few drives. Well, she doesn't like it. Not at all. Her feet get too hot, she got a snake bite, the shoulder harness issue on the passenger side has got her twitterpated, and basically, if she's not happy, I'm not happy. I can drive it all day long (figure of speech) but she can only stand it for short drives. I wanted to take it to Glenwood Springs and the answer was no.

I had never intended the Cobra to be anything other than a local "touring" car - not for cross country trips - but even locally it's only working for me, and I guess that's not as much fun as it could be.

So it looks like I'm reverting to original Plan B which is a Ford GT. A FGT was in the running before I got the Cobra, but I'd always wanted the Cobra, so I got a Mustang and a Cobra. The FGT has Air Conditioning (no whining about hot feet), a radio (no whining about noise) and no side pipes (no whining about snake bites). I haven't told her that she'll bump her head on the door but that's kind of like snake bites, it'll only happen a few times before she figures it out.

And she gets her garage space back. I think this should help restore Peace in the Valley. Plus we can drive it to Vegas.

The "fun factor" of the Cobra is still bigger than the FGT, but it'll do as the consolation prize.

By the way, I seriously considered a SPF/CSX9000 Daytona Coupe (remember, it has Air Conditioning, and electric windows ) but it was a lot out of my price range and I don't want the wait.

So that's the nutshell version right now. I hate to let it go, especially now that it's got all the kinks out. Removing the spinners with the lead mallet was so much fun!


Car Nut and Chip can pipe in now.

I'll continue to hang out here. I can't preclude the possibility of a nice 289 FIA car at some point in time.

so in other words your wife holds the pants in the family, and you lose your garage space on top of it all.

[twobjshelbys]

Here's an offer, good for here only. If someone on the forum and I can get together on a price, $1000 of that sale will go to the "767Jockey Project".

[63mercury]

Before I made the final decision on my cobra build I took the wife to the london cobra show, there she met other women who loved the cars, she rode in one owned by a woman, built by her husband for her, and loved the whole experiance. When we got home her first question was how soon are you srarting your build? I am hoping to have it ready for inspection in the spring or early summer of 2011. Just my .02.

[flipper35]

I think my wife married me for the Cobra. I don't know of anyone in my family that doesn't enjoy it. My wife and daughter take it to the library even.