He was Screwed too!!! II

[OnyxRider]

I StormBringer on this April 1st, 2014 is going to tell you the true story how my friend was screwed too.



I was visiting my fellow collecter Mario Ronzoni one day and he shows me this one of a kind Cobra in his garage. His wife Sohpia brings in some lunch and we sit down at his workbench to break bread. You know SB every time I bring this cobra out some guys are always taking a picture. And when they ask me anything about the car I always take the time to explain. But you know these guys in the books they "reely" screwed me this time. "They got all the facts wrong. Mario is Italian in fact the son of the man who founded the pasta company. So sometimes I will write exactly what he tells me.



So "inna" about 1964-65 Briggs Cunningham visited Carroll Shelby by the airport. Briggs told him he moved all of his car collection from Westport,CT to California a few years prior and need needed a one of a kind to finish off his collection. Well you know ole Shelby he was so busy with Ford but he couldn't say no to such a gentleman and racer as Briggs. So Carroll tells one of his guys to get one of the extra tubs out in the shed( you never know what Shelby has in that shed). Shelby told Briggs that this is CSX 3002-A was suppose to be a third 427 prototype but the dang fools stamped the wrong numbers into the chassis. I can make you a real one-of-a-kind with this. So Briggs asks him can you make room in the back for my dog to sit comfortably and he says sure. So about six months later Shelby delivered CSX 3002-A to Briggs. The interior looked like a V-shape with the two seats and a small area for Briggs dog in the back. Cobra was white with Blue LeMans stripes that Briggs in fact invented so the French would know it was him when at LeMans.



So Briggs enjoyed the Cobra and when he decided to sell his collection to Collier this is the only one he kept. He sold it to me about a year later. Mario asks me if I want any "fresh graded cheese" on my pasta because he just had to buy a new one. His son "brought the cheese grader" to his friends auto shop one day and it never came back.



So I drive this once in a while and these guys always ask me what kind of Cobra this is. I tell them it's a Real One and they don't believe me. I tell them the story and they still got it wrong in the books. They even got the meatball wrong in their record books. I'm the one that invented the white meatball to paint your number on the side of a car. I was eating lunch right here and a meatball fell off the plate and rolled under the Cobra. I thought hey why "notta" paint a white circle on a car in case you have to change numbers all the time. "I'm the one that came up widda that idea!"

"So SB you tella the guys in the Cobras that they have it all wrong and stop screwing me because I'm the one that knows the true story!"