What would you do if you actually decided to teach this greenpeacer a lesson, and lost?

Sub-12 second commuter

The day is coming.

Goodiness
 

That thing is uuugly:JEKYLHYDE

It also looks as if you could push it over with one hand :3DSMILE:

I like the idea of alternative powered commuter cars, but why does it have to be so ugly? :confused:

Eric,
Bring an extra set of bearings....

I heard they don't hold up well when you try to squueze BB HP out of SB POS.

He he he he!!

TURK
It won't be me, but there will be other BBs there to want to get humiliated by you!!

Mine's loud and lumpy enough that I have had few problems of this sort. I admit I used to raise hell with a few rice boys with the Butler.

BinB, I am surprized at you buddy. Why not pull out a broadsword and just slice one of those little basturds in half?:3DSMILE:

Anchor2,

It sounds as though you were trying to get away from them more than race them. Personally I haven't had any challenges to race, not really. Maybe it's 'cause I drive mostly on rural roads so there aren't many "racers" around. One time I did have a couple guys though riding my a## real close though, I mean way too close. They were a couple of young guys in an old pickup and I could tell in my mirror that they had an unfavorable tattoo to tooth ratio. So when I finally got some clear road ahead of me I was in second gear, I hit it and took it up into third. By then they were just a little spot in my mirror and I was happy again.

John
1421

I'm only 32 & I still can't believe how many people of all ages I meet that don't know what a Cobra is. I know I've been around cars all of my life but a Cobra isn't just a car! Is it? When someone says Cobra don't you automatically think the Fastest, coolest car ever produced? I was brought up mostly on Chevy's & even I know this!

Street racing is dangerous & can be very costly. Don't do it when every you can help it:rolleyes:

:LOL: **) :LOL:

Like Jamo, my car made enough noise to intimidate even the less faint hearted. Occasionally I got somebody wanting a closer look who got a bit too close, but mostly I just got thumbs up.

Did have one interesting experience with a Viper on the street. I had Just left the Concours here in Forest Grove, headed for home a couple miles away when a guy and his girl friend in a red Viper came alongside at a light. I just looked at him and turned back to my driving. He on the other hand decided to put on a show and nearly sideswiped me as he fishtailed the car.

That was enough to provoke me and I let him have it. In a hundred feet, I was four car lengths in front and the next thing I saw was the viper sheepishly going around a corner to avoid any further embarrassment. No real speed involved, just quickness.

I never did get any tickets in the car and only that one little demonstration. Any street race is dangerous. It's just a lot more so in a Cobra. Best just to smile wickedly and avoid it.

Al

I really think most of the kids who do that just do it because they want to see what your car can do. They're too embarrased (or is it too egotistical) to admit that your car will smoke them, but since they love speed so much, they REALLY want to see what your car can do. So they try to egg you into gunning it. I just either grin at them and pull away from the light real, real slow (because that just frustrates the hell out of them), or if they really seem intersted in the car, I'll rev the motor a bit. I've only had a few really try to push it, and I just told them where and when they can see FFR2479 on the track.

Are you practicing your launches so you can take on all comers at the Fling, Turk? :D **) My new 351W goes into my car two weeks after the Fling, so I have the green light from my builder to do whatever I want with my lil 'ol 302. Gonna push it hard at the Sunday autox. Grab your barf bag!!!!

Steve

Are all ricers alike?
 

One time I was travelling along, in my LAE, doing the limit at 65 when an NSX passed me on the right. The driver took the trouble to turn his whole body in his seat and give me a full face "monkey humpin' a football grin" and cut in front of me to maneuver through traffic.

About a mile up the road there was a stop light which caught us both. I was in the right lane by then and he was still in the left. The traffic he had passed had all gotten into the left turn lane so we were side by side at the light.

Because there was no traffic in the on-coming left turn lane, we got the green light at the same time as the left turn lane going in our direction.

I didn't gas it, I guess just the sound at idle had changed his mind on how fast his ricer might have been, I went straight, he turned left, almost hitting the car that was in the left turn lane.

I didn't race him, but once on a socal freeway, a bright yellow, blue painted rollcage, Japanese decal laden, coffee-can exhaust tipped, Honda Integra pulled up next to me kept revving that sewing machine sounding 4-banger, so I gently mashed the gas on the 520 cid cobra. That lit up the rear tires like John Force before a dragrace, and I was in fourth gear. His eyes went as big as saucers and the whole ordeal lasted two seconds. That was the one and only time I felt the need to, it was innapropriate, I know.

I was going down the hiway a couple of years ago in my 69 pro street Mach 1 (427c.i. 650+ horsepower + 350 horsepower nitrous) and I saw a a$$hole in a supercharged Ram Air Firehawk taunting a older gentleman in a Acura NSX. The guy saw me and decided he wanted to show off for his buddies and started taunting me. He kept "punching it" and then looking back with a big grin. He did this twice until I decided I had enough. This time when he "punched it", I did the same. When he looked back to grin at me again, he saw nothing. His buddies (laughing their a$$ off) pointed about 10 car lengths ahead and my friend waved "goodbye".

Oh yea, I don't even waste my racing fuel on any "oversized" lawnmowers.

Have you ever seen small children put their hand in the air and beg a trucker to blow his air horns? When these idiots pull up and want to race they know they don't have a chance in hell to beat a Cobra they just want to experience the $50,000.00 rush without spending it. This is the ultimate compliment. No different than the "saved a life last night" post We can race or we can fight and make a fool out of ourselves or smile and say thank you . Either way they lose. A hot head in a Cobra will soon find out how strong their roll cage really is.

Jamo said:

BinB, I am surprized at you buddy. Why not pull out a broadsword and just slice one of those little basturds in half?
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Jamo, sink me, but I was too busy sniffing my snuff and considering my date with the ladies that night. Besides, the local constabulary frowns upon drive by slashings :3DSMILE:


As to this one:
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They were a couple of young guys in an old pickup and I could tell in my mirror that they had an unfavorable tattoo to tooth ratio.
John
1421
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I don't mean to offend anyone, but I have been informed of this being a common phenomenon with the distaff side in "west virginny" in particular

Several months ago, while driving my Cobra home from work, I came up on a pretty new looking Lotus Espree. Some kid wearing lots of gold was driving. We hit a straight four-lane stretch and he jumped over to the lane beside me, revved it a few times and let her rip. My heart was pounding and I wanted to engage so badly I could hardly stand it. It took every fiber in my body to refrain from racing him. But alas, my senior judgement jumped in as I was approaching redline in second gear. It would have been a blast to go screaming up the road against this awesome looking, highly-refined car. I just settled back into a cruise speed and wondered what the outcome would have been. I looked up the car on the Internet that evening. It's a 4 sec. 0-60 and 180 MPH car. It still would have been fun. Responsibility sucks!

Best answer to the "wanna' race " question I ever heard was from a friend of mine....

"Sure, you got the "pink slip"(title) to that Tinker Toy(didn't matter what kind of car)...and a quarter? If not forget it..."

Invariably some fool would ask "A Quarter...?"
"Yeah you'll need it to call for a ride..'cuz you definitely won't be driving that thing home when we're finished!"

Don't ever remember him ever actually racing anyone...on the street.

PS Mike had a built 427 '64 Vette coupe, very very quick and fast.. .. he also was about 6'3 and 230# and sort of looked(and at times was)like a "bad hombre" someone you didn't really want to mess with(he is now a Deacon in his church, 2 kids in college:D)

Being Egged on?
 

Driving down 294 (in Chicago) coming back from a car show.
Minding my own bussines, some chump in a big canned
exaust, something or other, pulls up wants to go at it.
We were already doing 70.
Nope, this time I don't go for it, (kinda tired just crusin along.)

Best part is though the state trooper (in an unmarked car) a few car lengths behind us sees this and blows by him, gives some brake and takes off again. I was wondering if the fool would go for it and YEP HE DID !!!!!
The fool takes off after him and there go the lights !!!!!

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah !!!!!!!!
It was sweet poetic justice !!:LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

Actually, i find it really really uncommon for another car to prevocate. In fact, it has only happened several times in the past 3 years. Typically they are BMW M cars.

Many years ago, a college friend was out in his 260 Falcon, and ran upon a 289 car. He was able to prevoke the driver into racing away, and my friend told me it was a great sight to watch it blast ahead.

cruised thru a SC rest stop last summer, it was full of Corvettes out for a cruise, an older driver of a C5 misunderstood something i was telling him, he thought i wanted to challange him, and he replied "no way i would run a Cobra."

I have only seriously run once, a modified Z-06, took him thru third easily, was pretty much even from a roll-on in fourth. A HP came up immediatly afterwords, and i vowed to never ever do that again.

Was cruising to Charlotte yest, with my daughter, a SC HP on a motorcycle came up along side of me, smiled and gave me thumbs up. Came back soaked by the rain, fans in the car now. Did not bother to put the top up.

Dropped by the Charlotte Porsche dealer yest to pick up something for my son's Boxster. The service manager and his staff loved my car and its sound. Even with GT-2's and other exotic really formidable cars there, they admired the classic look and intimidating sound of my primative machine. They invited me to come out today for a track day, so i am heading out now.

I have been in the company of upwards of 50 SPF's, and have been told that mine was the loudest of them all. I have some "tweaks" to my exhaust. So i think my exhaust is very very intimidating at any RPM.

Now off to the track.

That is a very common happening around here. I just point to the 351 emblems, rev the motor a little and tell them I do my racing on a road track. If they want to see how their car goes then come on down to Thunderhill and I will be happy to run with them. Now I have 30 kids in everything from junkers to nice cars telling their friends how the old man with the Cobra is afraid to race them. Doesn't bother me a bit and certainly not as much as geting a ticket or causing someone to be hurt while racing some idiot on the street. One Corvette did run off the road trying to follow me throught the curves going over to Shasta Dam but I wasn't racing him and didn't even know he was behind me until I heard all the noise and looked back. I stopped and went back to see what was in the dust cloud and it was a very white faced young guy who was ok but couldn't believe I had gone around that curve on my side of the raod and he was clear on the other side trying to make it. I think his problem was more not knowing how to drive than the Corvette itself as I just wasn't going that fast.

Ron **)

Challanging a Cobra is kind of like playing the lottery.. You know you will not win but there is always that 1 in 14,000,000 chance that you will.


I learned my lesson one day driving the Cobra home after a local car race(Snowball Derby a stock car race run the first week of December in Pensacola...I love Florida weather). Driving thru town on a 45mph 4 lane divided road some chump in a 5.0 Mustang tailgated me by 5ft for about two miles. I had tried waiving and gesturing politely to get him and his headlights away from my rear end. Driving in the left lane I was slowing down for a read light and all cars ahead of me got into the left turn lane clearing up my path. With about 100 yards to go the light turned green and I punched it in second caught third and let off just after the intersection. The stand was trying but way back but my attention was drawn to the other side of the divider by a Police car turning on his lights. I pulled over immediatly and waited but the stang ran. Guess who he pulled behind? Me. I explained that I knew I was wrong but I was just punching it to put some distance between me and the tailgater. After admiring my car and asking questions he told me to be more careful and sent my on my way. Never again. I drove like most of the over 70 crowd in Florida the rest of the way home. No I did not leave the left blinker on.

I leave my racing for the track and cool it on the street.