What is the LATEST recognition your Cobra has had recently?

ByronRACE · #1 (**permalink**) 10-01-2007, 03:09 PM

Decellerating from about 80mph, I pulled into a gas station on a rural road. A father and his son (4ish) were there filling up the mini van. The little one was all eyes and teeth...he was definitely excited.

I shut down the engine, shut down the touchscreen dash (shuts down the fuel pump, then the fans, then the water pump, etc...), and finally it's silent.

I unlatch the harnesses and am about to get out, but the 4yr old is now standing inches from my drivers door and exclaims excitedly...

"Are You Batman?"

CBattaglia · #2 (**permalink**) 10-01-2007, 03:20 PM

I went to the pool store to get a winter cover. While I was in the store one of the employees anounces to the rest of the store "Hey there is a Cobra outside!"

Everyone came out, there were about 6 of them. An older gentleman said that "I made his day" as he took pictures of (and with) the car.

Any 5 minute errand ends up taking 30+ minutes after showing off the car and answering questions. Happens every time. My wife doesnt believe me, she thinks I am out driving around. She hasnt been in it yet....

lovehamr · #3 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by ByronRACE

I shut down the engine, shut down the touchscreen dash (shuts down the fuel pump, then the fans, then the water pump, etc...), and finally it's silent.

Hey Batma.....uh, I mean Byron, I looked through your gallery and noticed that your car is called "Project Ludicrous Speed". Which I find hilarious as hell. But I do have one question for you; has that monster supercharged BB made your car go "plaid" yet?

Great car man, Steve

P.S. Almost forgot; does Dark Helmet know that you stole his ride? BaaaaHaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!

lamaluv · #4 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 09:53 AM

I had two cool things happen with my car this past summer. First at a local "Hot Days-Cool Cars" show in a local park my car was picked as the Ladies Favorite Car award winner. The second was at the 2007 WSCB when my car was awarded one of the ten trophies given at the car show on Saturday. They used two combined catigories to select the winners; Well-built cars inside and out with attention to detail, and Very obvious evidence of use, fun, and most impostantly, being driven. I'm sure that the second part of the catigory is the most responsible for my winning as my car is 26 years old and has lots of "patina". The funny part of this story is that they gave the awards in secret at the bash by just leaving the trophies in the cars of the winners with no announcement or fanfare. It was not untill I read the story about the Bash in the December issue of Kitcar Magazine that I realized what the trophy was for. Many thanks to the WSCB gang as being selected by ones peers is tuly an honor.

Dick

ByronRACE · #5 (**permalink**) 07-10-2008, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by lovehamr

Hey Batma.....uh, I mean Byron, I looked through your gallery and noticed that your car is called "Project Ludicrous Speed". Which I find hilarious as hell. But I do have one question for you; has that monster supercharged BB made your car go "plaid" yet?

Great car man, Steve

P.S. Almost forgot; does Dark Helmet know that you stole his ride? BaaaaHaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!

I'm glad you picked up on the reference; that's exactly it.

I'm happy to report the car is living up to its name. I've turned the power down several times since the initial build; it's a bit much to control.

The only plaid I've found so far was in my shorts after I lost all power at WOT and sent a sonic boom out both sidepipes at ThunderHill from a massive backfire. Distributor/cam gear trouble. Oops. Car is presently dead waiting for me to R&R the cam. Hot tip, don't use Comp's "roller friendly" steel cam gear. It was friendly for 1500 miles (checked it every 100-200 miles) then suddenly decided to eat the cam one day. Both parts are Comp, and were purchased together from Comp. Response was "that happens sometimes". I'm real happy I bonded a bunch of magnets in the pan, and real happy I have datalogging that watches timing advance. I played the log back and saw ignition shake before the rotor in the distributor failed. That data led me to inspect the distributor...and I found the wear. Lucky it didn't go longer; it would have been a complete disaster.

Oh, and several vids on http://www.youtube.com/byronrace if you're interested. Make sure you sample several as I was experimenting with audio and some of them really suck!

MFE III · #6 (**permalink**) 07-10-2008, 01:02 PM

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"Hey, mine's a HYBRID too. It burns BOTH gas AND rubber!

I like this one!

Steve Gallegos · #7 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 03:38 PM

Pulled into a store parking lot in Morro Bay CA. This blond walks up to the car and says "SWEET" then goes and gets into her boyfriends vet. He wasn't to happy

bermblaster41 · #8 (**permalink**) 07-13-2008, 07:54 AM

Entered my Hurricane Motorsports Cobra in its 1st car show. "BEST OF SHOW" It came as a total shock due to there being approx 110 very nice cars entered. We are totaly jacked. These cars really do attract more attention than a dead body in Wallmarts parking lot!

Bermblaster