What is the LATEST recognition your Cobra has had recently?

[Roger Bray]

There is a road construction site on a country road near my farm. When I approached the flag man stepped into the road with his hand held stop sign. I stopped and we talked for a few minutes. Then he said that the road was not blocked .... he just stopped me so that he could look at my car.

[RallySnake]

The First Friday Night Rally on May 3rd was a really good one. Joanna put together a spectacular event. The concept of this one was to have free zones on most of the roads so you could run at whatever speed was comfortable. Then, she would put in a "Checkpoint Zone" where (for a short distance) you have to run on time and may encounter a checkpoint. This made the rally so much more fun! Plus, we ran all of Little Tujunga Canyon Road which is really neat at night because you can see oncoming headlights much sooner than you can see an oncoming car in the daytime. JoAnn has really shown her skills on this one by making it relatively easy event except for one trap that made you think a little bit near the end. The night was topped off with Pizza Hut "Crazy Crust" pizza and a first place trophy. It doesn't get any better than that!

RS

[IndyCobra]

So we've all had our cars mistaken for something other than a cobra by the unwashed masses, but today took the cake.

I cruise over to my local breakfast joint for some food this morning. I'm sitting in the booth right where my cobra is parked on the other side of the window. In the next booth over, a man and a woman are lightly arguing about my car. The woman insists to her husband that it is a Honda......a freakin HONDA, are you kidding me. This goes on for several minutes and she remains adamant that it's a Honda. After seeing this guy get emasculated, I kindly speak up to tell her it's a replica of a cobra. Know what her response was? "Are you sure?"

Yea lady, I'm freakin sure. It's like I was lying to her just so her husband could win an argument. In any event, I remained polite and explained to both of them the details of the car.

A Honda. Jeez.

[KevinW]

When I had my old car, before paint it looked a total mess: grey GRP body, yellow boot and doors, slightly tatty interior. Lots of people, mainly guys, would often want to talk to me, as they vaguely recognised the shape, didnt know what it was, but assumed it was a classic resto job.

One day in the winter the car broke down in a small retail parking lot, so while we waited for the recovery truck, me and my son went to McDonalds - i could also keep an eye on it from there.

I saw this old guy with his wife both hobble out of their car. As they walked toward the bed linen shop he eye-balled the car. As they came out the shop i could see his old lady tugging him toward his Civic. Clearly in trouble with his old lady, he put her in the car, shut her car door, and walked back. He'd decided he wasnt gonna rush while he had a good look at mine. Made us both smile while we drank coffee in the warm.

Funny thing was, once the car was painted ad looked great, lots of interest from guys with kit cars, but the general public mostly didnt talk to me.