What is the LATEST recognition your Cobra has had recently?

[MaSnaka]

Yesterday I got the ultimate form of recognition for what it's worth. I received my Colin Comer edition of Shelby Cobra Fiftey Years in the mail and was eager to see if any of the three photos I had submitted were used in the book. As I turned each page I see incredible pictures of cars and people involved in the history of Cobras, you know who they are and you have seen the incredible cars. I am pictured on page 248 with my son driving my Classic Roadster. To be included in the same book with the likes of Carroll Shelby, Ken Miles, Peter Brock, Dan Gurney, Bob Bondurant to name a few, is a huge thrill for me. I also get to represent the Classic Roadster Family with the only photo and mention of our small community. Thank you Colin Comer for preserving our history!

John

[razerwire]

Took the csx comp car to Mustang Plus car show oct 22 in stockton . They put on a great show with lots of Very nice mustangs, broncos, cobras, other ford products. Had peoples choice car show and my cobra won its class. It was nice to be around ford fans, they knew what my car is. You go to street rod show and you are invisible.

[centaur17]

Was down in St. George last week and when I got in the car a woman, had to be 75 if she was a day, came up and started asking all kind of questions both technical and otherwise. She might have known more than I do. 'Blew my skirt up'. I asked her if she would marry me! Walter from Beaver, UT.

[Silverback51]

A couple years ago my wife and I headed over to Poulsbo for lunch.

As we were heading up the hill to leave town after lunch, there was an older lady, in her late 70's, early 80's walking with a walker down the hill towards down town. She was with another lady that I will assume was her daughter.

Her head was down looking at where she was walking, but when she heard the car coming, she stopped, looked up, smiled and gave us a big thumbs up.

I'm guessing she was one very cool old lady.

[mreid]

Left my car parked in the driveway the other day while I ran some errands. Came back and some hot chick was boosting my engine! Pic, 'cause it happened:

[Avmaviator]

Originally Posted by mreid

Left my car parked in the driveway the other day while I ran some errands. Came back and some hot chick was boosting my engine! Pic, 'cause it happened:

I bet that this hot chick is the reason why your timing was off

[lovehamr]

Now that's funny right there!

[Silverback51]

It's okay, it was only a SB anyway.

[mreid]

But was it? Apparently there is now a question about when a 427 became a small block!

And I'll bet that wench snuck out in the garage and screwed with my timing...

[shelby7]

A friend walked up and said" your selling it?" man, it must be hard since its an heirloom...Can I have it? Ill take care of it...

[sspano01]

took my cobra to a local garage today for an indoor-winter-car-show-of-sorts.
some 13 year old kid was staring at it...jaw open.
I asked "well - what do you think?"
He said "wow! i have only seen these cars in video games"

[IndyCobra]

Just finished my build, got the licensing and insurance squared away and took the car out for a quick spin down the highway once we got a warm day. As luck would have it, I didn't have enough gas to make it to the nearest gas station so I pulled over into a church parking lot as she rolled to a stop. My son headed off on foot the remaining 1/2 mile to the station while I stood shotgun. Just so happens that a local church meeting breaks up and all these soccer mom vans start slowly cruising by with all these kids in the window. Several pull over and all these kids pile out of the van to look over the car. Got some nice pictures and I let them sit in it while Mommy snapped her cell camera. Pretty soon my son pulls up in some pickup truck. The guy had a hot rod hat on so my son approached him and asked if he wanted to go see a kit Cobra.

All in all, it was a busy first day.

[Bill Bess]

The best one lately is my next door neighbor's kid, 8 year old Cameron. Cameron loves Cobra's, he has a collection of toy cobra's and of course I keep giving him more. His eye's light up everytime he sees the car or when I start it up.
Happy kids are the best!

[Danr55]

Mreid, When she finishes with yours, ask her if she's ever seen Arizona in the springtime.

[Al G]

At a Cars & Coffee last weekend two people asked me if my Cobra was a restored original. I explained the continuation series to them.

[gw6929]

went out for ice cream recently & my wife waited in the car while I got the sweets. an elderly man came over, looked the car over (ffr mk1) thoroughly & then told my wife how much he liked the car & did she know that people are making replicas of these things now?

Jim

[YerDugliness]

Sam Houston State University Auto Club....Club Choice trophy:

The club:



The car:



As displayed:





Just chillin' as the show was underway:



My GF and I had just sat down for a burger and fries at a Five Guys location in Huntsville in early August when a college kid walked in and asked if we were in the Cobra. We said yes and he handed us a flier for their upcoming car show and said they were all gathered in the parking lot of the adjacent Target store, so why not come over and visit soon as we were done eating. We did...were sitting around chatting with the kids, popped the hood so they could see the engine, when a city patrol car came up and lit us up....made us all show ID and stand off to the side while he ran us all for warrants. When that was all done he asked to speak to the "leader of the group", looked right at me (of course, I'm the old guy) and was surprised to see a young man step forward. Despite having permission from the management at Target to convene in their parking lot, and despite the fact that we were parked as far from the store as we could get and there were no other cars for 100 yards on any side of us, the manager had called the police to complain. It seems there were some other honyocks out there earlier doing burnouts and spinning circles in the parking lot and the management had mistaken this group of college-age car affecionados for that rowdy bunch. We were "invited" to finish the meeting and leave....which we did.

We hadn't seen them since, but we washed the car up and drove it to the University for the show. When we pulled in the kids all came running up to us and expressed how happy they were to see us. We paid the entry fee, which goes to the Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization, and they guided us to a spot near the area where their raffle/donation tables were set up. We proceeded to set up our chairs behind the Cobra and chat with all the observers who asked us questions.

You can imagine our surprise when the club chose our Cobra as their favorite

Here's the old guy with the trophy:



The car is a daily driver, 8,000+ miles, nothing special, just the stock drivetrain from a '89 Mustang GT converted to carb. It was displayed in full street "patina", chips in the paint and all, including this one earned when the right side of the rear bumper came unbolted while I was on the freeway and the left side of the bumper chewed into the paint as I tried to get it off to the side of the road to figure out what to do about it:



It was a testament to the enduring appeal of the Cobra. Many of the older car buffs there were familiar with the history, even the kids in the club knew about Shelby's recent death and commented on how Facebook was just abuzz with the bad news. The "competition" included the newer tuner cars, a Viper, numerous 'Vettes (a 1962 "restorod" to numerous recent versions), a rat-rod, multiple vintage cars from an early Hudson up to a '67 Cougar in mint shape, a '57 Chevy tilt-front gasser, as well as many more I can't really recall.

Chock one up for the ol' Shel, fellas....he done well!!

[My sincere apologies for the size of the photos...I have tried 3 times to resize them to smaller sizes, and for some reason Photobucket insists on displaying them in full size. I shall continue to try to reduce the size so that scrolling is not needed, will return and edit the post if I am successful.]

Cheers!

Dugly

[Fullchat289]

Great post, Dugly!

- Allen.

[itstock]

I got a "top ten" best of show but was paying my dinner tab when they were doing the trophys. I guess I like my food more than car shows.

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[pliot_guy]

I love reading the post's on this thread ! I have only had the cobra for 2 months or so and the wife is already tired of hearing me tell her about the questions and comments I get when I go for a cruise ! the last one I had, I was at Starbucks and some kid, maybe 12 years old came up with his mom and asked if he can take a picture next to the car for his Facebook picture. I just laughed and said sure, go ahead.