Enough Dead Cobra Owners! Enough Wrecked Cars!

[Russ Dickey]

While I realize that my posts on this thread have assured that once I do obtain my Cobra, that I will never be invited to a fling, car show, cruise night, etc, I feel that I have to make one final post.

My grandpa used to say: "Be careful when you climb up on your high horse, because it might just be a Shetland Pony". Let's be realistic, we're all Type A personalities around here, or else we wouldn't all share the same desire to own the meanest car ever unleashed on the American public.

But don't use the sad circumstances surrounding this accident to belt out a bunch of hipocritical rhetoric. Some of you guys are telling me that you own a 2500lb, 450+hp sports car, and you've NEVER romped on it in public? Wow.

Maybe you fall into one of these categories:
1. Used cell phone while driving
2. Eaten food while driving.
3. Flirted with spouse while driving.
4. Are a teenage girl.

Yes? Well then, you are among the most dangerous and careless drivers on the road, and based on current casualty statistics, are at least 25x more likely to be killed (and kill others) while behind the wheel than a guy who occasionally partakes in a stop-light challenge.

Don't do any of the above and still never mash the throttle? Damn, then you have a greater sense of self-control than 99.9% of the civilized population of Earth, and should immediately send off a bottle of your plasma for research. The rest of us animals could use a dose.

[RedEye]

Actually, I really think the original poster needs to mind his own business and leave the rest of us alone. I'm fully able to make my own risk analysis and realize my own outcomes. So piss off, and don't drag the government along with your to enforce whatever versions of safety you have over my own person, property, and action set.

[mrmustang]

Originally Posted by RedEye

Actually, I really think the original poster needs to mind his own business and leave the rest of us alone. I'm fully able to make my own risk analysis and realize my own outcomes. So piss off, and don't drag the government along with your to enforce whatever versions of safety you have over my own person, property, and action set.

The original poster, while not having a Cobra (at the moment, and subject to change, or so I have been told in the past ), is still held in high regard, and is still in the industry in which this thread, originally discussed (IN 2003). Relevant then, just as relevant now, even more so. People get killed in cars like this, in part, when they underestimate the power, short wheelbase, and their true driving skills coupled with the first two items in the equation. Some people have a lack of common sense, some people have a lack of skill. Both deficiencies can lead to death by auto.

I'll leave it at that.

Bill S.