Average Age? - Page 34

lamaluv · #1 (**permalink**) 04-06-2006, 07:43 AM

I have wanted a Cobra since my first ride in one in 1965. I started looking at replicas over 15 years ago and finally purcased my ERA #002 in 2005. I will be 60 in October of this year and be retiring. My plan is to pull my Cobra in a Serpent Express trailer behind my motor home and visit all the famous race tracks across the USA. I want to "open track" with my car on as many of them as possible. Also want attend as many of the fun Cobra events as possible as we travel. Plan to visit the ERA "factory" while passing through the NE part of this fine Country. As you can see I plan on taking it easy in my retirement

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Dick

Snakester · #2 (**permalink**) 05-14-2006, 05:28 PM

Bought my BDR261...9/05 turnkey from Reg. Before that I helped 2 friends build their FFR's...after @1million pop rivets I decided to go the turnkey route!1 friend is 20, the other is 37....I'm 53 and if this is a mid life crisis they must last a long time...At least this crisis has 500HP!
Snakester
Life is short/ You can't take it with you/ Might as well spend it on a COBRA!

skez · #3 (**permalink**) 05-14-2006, 11:49 PM

i havent read the whole thread but im probably one of the youngest guys here at 19, i bought my car with my dad, but its really my baby because he's not nearly as into it as i am

1NCE BITN · #4 (**permalink**) 07-02-2006, 08:40 PM

I'm turning 39 Aug. 8th, Ford guy, Parents had a 70 Grand Torino W/ a 289 when I was a kid. I had a new 96 Mustang GT convert. Done riding the Pony!
Ready to slay the snake.Can't afford a continuation, Well I can afford it, Just won't allow myself to. Going to OVERHAUL my dreams and pimp my ride,, FFR style!

Kramer · #5 (**permalink**) 07-02-2006, 09:16 PM

39 must be a popular age....I just ordered my ERA a few weeks back and beginning the engine build now....(ps...i turn 39 in october)

BLACKJACK · #6 (**permalink**) 07-03-2006, 04:30 PM

I used to be 39. A long, long time ago - on a planet far, far away.

I'm 71 now - on the outside - but still 25 on the inside.

I was only 65, or so, when this post was first started.

I'm still waiting for someone to calculate the "average" age.

Y'all have a really great day.

BLACKJACK

Igofastr · #7 (**permalink**) 07-03-2006, 05:12 PM

39 for another 5 months or so. Like everybody else.

My wife is convinced I'm a teenager trapped in an old man's body. That may be. But boy, I'd love to be a teen knowing what I know now. Couldn't take going back to school, however.

Streetwize · #8 (**permalink**) 07-03-2006, 07:42 PM

I'm 44, starting building the car when I was 34

Got about 85% done in the first 9 months but we started a similtaneous project around the same time. Our daughter is now 8 1/2. Of course I've had other car diversions and pacifiers (like the 2 wheeled version of the Cobra, the Yamaha V-max) over the years, and I'm mainly a MoPar guy and I still play with them some too. Sure, I would have loved to finish the car much sooner but I really don't have any regrets...let's just say I'm making up for lost time on every sunny afternoon!

sharpei1421 · #9 (**permalink**) 07-21-2006, 08:44 AM

I am 57 and enjoying retired life, even though it was a medical retirement. It still doesn't keep me out of my "little" car.

FiaCobra · #10 (**permalink**) 07-21-2006, 11:06 PM

I'm 38 and like most here, had a fascination with the cobra since i was a kid. As i got older and learned of the history, the Daytona Coupe was the one for me. So, after years of fooling with a '66 Fairlane and having a saltwater fishing boat, it was time to finally move on to my dream car. I'll be picking up my coupe in the next couple of weeks and am looking forward to putting it together. My ultimate plan would be to build an FIA 289 roadster and a GT-40 to compliment the coupe. Then i can die in peace!!

rokfor · #11 (**permalink**) 07-22-2006, 12:15 PM

Mine is a little long, but here is the whole story of how I came to building a CObra. I'm 33, but I've wanted one since I was about 8. My Dad has always been into cars. He started dragging me to car shows around that age and he started a complete ground up restoration on a 56 ford victoria when I was around 12 and he completed it when I was about 18. When I was about 22-23 he started a complete ground up restoration on a 61 Galaxie 500 convertible which was completed about 5 years ago. He still owns both. I know he would like to do another, but he's busy with other hobbies right now. When my brother was about 14 he decided he was going to restore a 1928 Model A at the same time my Dad was restoring the 56. Most guys in my Dad's car club laughed and blew him off. Well, by the time he graduated high school he had completed a complete ground up restoration on that Model A, he even painted it himself, which he still owns, he is now 34. His latest project was a complete restoration on a 1951 home built ski boat. He also owns a mint unrestored 289 67 Mustang. Growing up I had a couple late model Mustangs, but I was more into racing than building. Of course the whole building thing was now instilled in my blood so I had to follow suit. I had been talking about building a kit for several years, but being the conservative that I am, I just couldn't see spending my money on something that seemed frivolous. Well my 30th B-day rolled around and my wife decided to order one for me for my B-day. She tried hard on her own to get it ordered without my knowledge, but there were too many options, so she caved and had to let me in on her little secret. I was so excited we went ahead and bought a Factory Five kit. A couple months later the kit had arrived and was sitting in my garage, but I still hadn't told my Dad. We had recently moved into our new house and my Dad had bought me some floor paint for the garage. We invited my parents over for a little cook out and I said hey, you guys want to see how the floor turned out? We walked outside and you should have seen my Dads face when I opened the door, he was so excited and couldn't believe I had finally joined him and my brother with such a project. Within a year I had the car on the street minus paint and it was another year later before I was able to get it painted, but it's a blast and we have quite a little collection between the 3 of us. So that's my story.

Rob

sharpe 1 · #12 (**permalink**) 07-22-2006, 06:48 PM

Iam 59 going on 60.(Retired) I like to ease out on to my street, get it straight and then nail it. My neighbors must have thoughts, but never say any thing. (The big kid.) I never speed.

WarrenG · #13 (**permalink**) 08-01-2006, 10:17 AM

I fell for the Cobra when I was a teenager during the 70's. I had an MGB in the late 70's and never lost that love of open top driving. The MGB rarely had the roof on more than 2-3 weeks/year and it was my daily driver. I used the roof so little it stayed in a closet in the house instead of the trunk. Started researching replicas when I found a couple on Ebay in 2004, when I was 49, ordered my ERA in Sept 2005, and expect delivery either this month or next. I expect to keep the Cobra roof in the same place the MGB roof resided. Presently 51 years old.

ox_ford_guy · #14 (**permalink**) 08-27-2006, 12:50 PM

Just turned the big 60 and just bought my first cobra...G

BLACKJACK · #15 (**permalink**) 08-27-2006, 02:04 PM

CHILDREN - - - GOOD GAWD, I'M SURROUNDED BY CHILDREN!!!

I'M 71, MY WIFE'S 34, MY DOG'S 5, YOU GUYS ARE ALL UNDER 60.

I CAN'T FIND ANYONE MY OWN AGE TO PLAY WITH..... COME TO THINK OF IT...... WHY THE HELL WOULD I WANT TO??? PEOPLE MY AGE ARE REALLY DROLL.

BTW: I FIGURED OUT HOW TO "SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY".

BUY EVERYONE OVER THE AGE OF 70 A COBRA. ALSO - - "FREE CIGARETTES FOR THE ELDERLY". (he says as he liteS up another Kool Mild).

Y'ALL HAVE A REALLY GREAT DAY.

BLACKJACK

JAN_AC_MKIV · #16 (**permalink**) 08-27-2006, 05:11 PM

Well, at 37, am I the baby here??

Powershift1038 · #17 (**permalink**) 03-22-2007, 10:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JAN_AC_MKIV

Well, at 37, am I the baby here??

I got ya beat by a little. I'm 34.

rngnkr · #18 (**permalink**) 03-22-2007, 11:18 AM

Age 54. No mid-life crisis here - I have just never grown up! Mt first car was a Corvette 34 years ago and I have never outgrown my need for toys. Have had 3 Vettes, 2 Porsche's, 3 motorcycles, BMW, trucks, SUVs, etc, and my current daily driver - a Miata.

After many years of high revving small displacement cars found myself with a longing for another big honking V-8 (and the wonderful music that comes out of the side pipes). Got my daughter through college last year and my son is a college junior so the financial house is finally coming into some semblance of order - will take delivery of my new BDR next week after 4 years of careful negotiation with the minister of finance!

STCinc · #19 (**permalink**) 08-27-2006, 06:12 PM

I just turned 40 but have had my car for several years..

Sean

951mat · #20 (**permalink**) 08-27-2006, 06:27 PM

I'm 33 w/ 3 girls. 4-1/2, 3, and 4 months. Bought it in January from a guy that was having his first child. He figured he wouldn't have enough time to enjoy it. My wife didn't enjoy hearing his reason for selling.

I've already put about as many mile as the previous two owners did in 7 years. It really had to be bought to keep me from drowning in the estrogen, kind of like a life preserver.

Mat