From the mouths of babes
 

So I am out with the car and stop into a local shopping center with a sandwich shop. As I am grabbing the cell phone out of my car a minivan with a mom and a couple of young (guessing 5 and 8 years old) kids pulls up in the space directly in front of me. As I am walking past the van I hear the older of the two boys say "Mommy, when I grow up I want one of those!!!"

My wife & I were eating dinner inside at Wendys. Along came two college guys in black suits, got out of their car and one of them stood back like 15 feet with a camera, the other crouched down along the side of my cobras drivers door, put one hand on the steering wheel, acting like HE.....was driving, while the picture was takin ! I wonder how the picture came out ? LOL !

I always let people sit in the cobra, all they had to do was ask. hehe !

I was sitting at the stop light on the end of a freeway off-ramp, after a rather-spirited run on the freeway, when I looked over at the woman driving the new Mercedes sedan. She was motioning (so I thought) to the rear of my Cobra, or down the freeway at something. I kept looking but didnt see anything, so she rolled down her passenger-side windows, and her two young kids in the backseat were staring at my Cobra with HUGE smiles on their cherubic little faces. So I waved at the little tykes, revved up the Windsor a bit, and calmly drove on my merry way. I looked in my mirror, and the kids were waving until I was out of their sight!

Just think if you reved a FE!! Just kidding :D
Mike

Mike,

If he had revved an FE he would have really impressed them. Heck, they may have stopped and helped him pick up the parts. :LOL: :LOL:

Ron **) :JEKYLHYDE :D

That was Cooooooooooold Ron!:LOL: :JEKYLHYDE :D

Ron,
Even the parts are too fast to catch when you have a BIG block:LOL:
Mike

Mike,

And they all go so much farther too, and in more directions. :LOL: :LOL:

Ron :JEKYLHYDE :LOL:

I was over visiting my mechanical mentor and former Dragon Snake "aimer" and Shelby Enterprises engine builder Tony Stoer.

He was impressed.

Last Monday took the cobra to a local Chevy garage where our
company gets truck maintance done. The service managers, "go now that's a car." I got a lot of respect from the Chevy mechanics. After awhile they got on me that "it was to quiet in there , I'd better start it up again."


Rich

Was at a birthday party for one of my friends family members, and of course I parked the Cobra at the street end of the driveway, so party-goers, passersby, and drivers all HAD to see the Cobra, in all its glory!
I happened to look out at the Cobra, and there was this middle-aged man looking at the car, and he had three high-school girls with him. I went out and talked to them, and it turns out they are exchange students from Germany, Spain, and Russia. They were driving home, and spotted the Cobra! (natch!)
All three girls said it was a beautiful car, and I asked them if they would like to take turns riding in it, and I would be glad to take them. Their eyes got really big, and the three girls conferred with each other, and somehow the Russian girl was the first to go for a ride.
After the obligatory "Dont burn your legs" speech, and a short lesson on entering the Cobra, we were on our way down the road about a mile, where we got on the freeway for a bit of spirited driving. She didnt say much during the ride, but when she got out, she couldnt stop smiling and talking to her friends.
The German girl was next, and she was a lot more vocal in expressing her feelings as we tooled down to the freeway, and she said how much she wanted one of these cars.
But the most vocal, LOUDEST one was the Spanish girl, who kept up a good car-themed commentary on our whole trip, including a few "YA-HOOs" as we toodled down the freeway!
After all three had their rides, they thanked me ever so much, and the man stuffed a $20 bill into my pocket, for "giving these girls the thrill of their lives!"

Edley,

You got to take three presumably attractive young females for a ride in your Cobra and got paid to do so? WOW! What luck.:cool: :cool::D I love it when women are interested in the car sport. Notice the big grin on the third one?

John.

Sunday before last...my son and I took the car over to Shelbyville (yes, Shelbyville) for supper. When we came out of the restaurant, a young girl was eyeballing the car at close range- really going over it. She asked if it was OK if she took a picture of it with her camera phone because her boyfriend was crazy about "these cars." I told her to hop in and we'd take her picture in the car. She said, "NO WAY, he'd be SO jealous." I convinced her to hop in and my son took a couple pictures of her. She went away joyously, still babbling about how envious her boyfriend was going to be. Makes it all worth it, doesn't it?

Yesterday I took my Cobra out for a little joy ride (my Cobra is still in the just done assembly stages… black primer etc…. see gallery). I decide to go over to a friend’s house in the neighborhood right next to mine to show him. While waiting to make a left turn into the neighborhood, an Expedition traveling in the opposite direction pulled in infront of me. All of a sudden three of the four windows open up with three young boys hanging out (about 10 years old) yelling “Nice Car, That’s awesome” and giving me the thumbs up. It was the first response other then people just pointing and honking. Felt good.

RED

I am truly amazed. Driving the "beast" is fun enough, but to have this stuff happen EVERY SINGLE TIME I go out is incredible. The day I passed inspection I drove 261 miles to Mass. coast. Countless, countless I say, women, men, kids, stare and give the thumbs up. At one point, a new Carera passed, then slowed. Gave me the look over and then a thumbs up. A guy in what I think was a maserati or ferrari going the other way on a local road did a double take and in the mirror, I could see the arm and fist held high. On the way home I passed a "bevy" of antique and classics in CT obviously on the way back from a show. Even the guy in the 64 vette coupe smiled as I slid by. No kidding. I love this stuff.
Now, as far as dating goes...................OH YEAH.
: )
rowboy
PS my new "vanity" plates came today. XUSROWR

I'll be on 78 Sunday. Honk

Gave a ride to a friend's 5-year-old boy. We had just taken off doen the road, on the way to a freeway "goosing", when he said:
"I need some cool sunglasses!"

I asked him why he needed some cool sunglasses, and he said,

"Because this is a COOL CAR!"

Yeah, he gets it!

I drove down the autobahn, when a brand new Ferrari 612 scaglietti pulled aside, the guy took a long look at my car, then showed me both thumps up. 5 minutes later, while standing at a red light, a guy in a black Porsche Boxter told me that this is the car he dreamded of as a child and offered me a trade. I refused, but I think this guy is now on the hunt for his own cobra.

Took the Cobra to a local car show today; won second place. First place went to a full-on slingshot dragster! That will teach me to put the Cobra into the "racecar" category!

Anyhoo, This family of four (Mom, Dad, 10 yr old girl and 12 yr old boy,) were admiring the Cobra. I saw Dad with the digital camera around his neck, and I asked the parents if the kids wanted to sit in the Cobra, and I would let Dad take their picture. Of course the kids said "YES!!" and practically knocked me down in their mad scramble to get into the cockpit of the Cobra. Dad snapped the photo, and I saw the result on the back of the camera. Two young SMILING faces, and a Cobra in the pic as well! I think these kids will get the "Cobra bug" before too long!!! They thanked me profusely and I said that they were more than welcome.

Yes, Edly, those two youngsters that got bitten by the snake, but in a good way:D

Drove to McDonalds for breakfast. While eating, an 80+ year old guy sitting nearby with three of his also-elderly friends pointed out my car and proceeded to spout his expertise about the "old Corvette" parked out there. His friends acted (or possible, were) impressed by his vast knowledge and I didn't bother to correct him, figuring that he didn't need to be embarassed in front of his friends.