What is the LATEST recognition your Cobra has had recently?

[richardferguson]

Spending an afternoon having conversations like the one above is my idea of torture.

[stefanog]

A bunch of us guys got together and went to the Dutton rally at Eastern Creek a couple of weeks ago and parked the cars (7) along the covered garages. We were watching the racers going down the straight from the pit roof, wearing our various Cobra related t-shirts and such when a guy comes up to us and says "if you guys like Shelbys you ought to know that some guy has bought an original Cobra down stairs!" My mechanic replies "which one? the silver number 96? he said yes have you seen it? and who owns it? the finger was pointed at me to which I replied that it was not an original but a Robnell. He was a little embarrased I think but congratulated me on it's how original it looked.

[Power Surge]

I won first place in the local annual Ford show this past Sunday. Since it was primarily a Mustang based show, I was put into the "Special Interest - stock vehicles" class. This class had about 15 cars in it, with some really nice stock musclecars and vintage non-Mustang Fords.

[jdog]

I spent an hour or so at the local wednesday night car show.

The thing that struck me odd was how much room everyone gave the Cobra, like it would bite!

People seemed to get a lot closer to most of the other cars, right up to & almost touching them. But I only saw one guy get any closer than an arms length, & he brought a Shelby GT350 clone!

I know it didn't smell bad or anything like that. It was puzzeling to me. Just not quite the reaction I'd expected.

jdog

[Ron61]

Jdog,

That is unusual. Normally you have to stand and keep them back and I have seen people open the doors and get into the Cobras if the owner wasn't there to stop them. Of course yours is so bright and shiny, they may be afraid of touching it. The Built While I Was In Folsom Prison sign may have helped also.

Ron

[wtm442]

Ron
I see the same reaction as Jdog. Of course, this only applies to people over 12 years old. A Cobra attracts kids like _ _ _ (fill in your comment here).

Yesterday I stopped to take a picture and a guy came out of his house while he was buttoning his shirt. He asked if I wanted him to take a picture with me in the picture. He asked quite a few questions about the car as he unbuttoned and "re-buttoned" his shirt correctly - it was one button off. He said that the Cobra was one of the best looking cars he has ever seen.

[Eliems]

It's called R E S P E C T.

[Ron61]

Warren,

Nice picture and here it is the teens as much as the young kids that climb into the cars. Two were arrested a couple of years ago for threatening the owner when he told them to get the He** out of his Car. One was 14 and the other 17.

Ron

[ByronRACE]

Last night out in front of my house, there were 3 patrol cars behind a ricer and they were tearing him and the car down throughly for about an hour. It just so happened that at about the same time the tow truck was arriving to load up the poor kids car, I was ready to fire the Cobra for the first time since it went to the body shop 10 months ago. I rolled her into the driveway as to not blow the blast media all over my garage (newly blasted/coated exhaust), turned on the electrical, and hit the starter. It fired right up, in its usual loud glory note, and I let it come up to temperature while checking for leaks (recently redid the intake). Happy with what I saw, I backed it out of the driveway, took off down to the corner, filled it with gas, and drove it back just in time to see the tow rig driving away with the ricers ride. 1 cop and the owner of the Honda were still standing curbside.

So then I shut it off and heard, "Oh that's just great, this dude can drive a god damn funny car and you don't give a sh!t!". The cop replied - "Looks like you bought the wrong car huh? By the looks of that, I'd say he's smog exempt under the SB-100 law." To which, I smiled and nodded.