Average Age?

[JOHNNY813]

Im 26 an i picked up my ffr mk3.1 on april 19 2008

let the good times roll

[RalphSchmalph]

After practicing law for 35 years I retired. When I was in high school I followed the types of sports cars that raced at Lyme Rock and Watkins Glen. I had trading cards of gull winged Porches, Cobras, Ferraris and Corvettes. I always loved the Cobras best but never thought you could buy one that wasn't an original until just a few years ago. After driving standard shift cars most of my adult life including a 65 Mustang, BMWs, a Miata and the '73 240Z I finally realized my dream when after a near death experience I decided time was running out and pulled the trigger last month. I ordered a BDR 342R and am anxiously waiting for July 10th when it's supposed to be ready. Spending money on myself was always a difficult thing but with the kids grown and gone I decided it was my time and my new Cobra is going to be one of many new pages in the book of my life. I'm a very young 61 and don't plan on ever getting old.

[uncltodd]

Ralph- What triggered me is when you said..."Spending money on myself was always a difficult thing..."

God has been good to me, I will not die a rich man. I'm still hammering "My Kids" through college, we have no children.

I am a broken-down, busted-up old fart, at 57, but I still have young friends that I have qualified to take me around the patch in Gunrack, Build #139.

Gunrack has been for sale for over a year, no legit offers.

Rock on, Brudda.

UT

[Ls6venom]

Well i am 23 years old now and finished my car spring of 06 when i was 21, i bought a frame from everett-morrison for $2200 when i was just 16 years old, a sophomore in high school.. no joke

[Got the Bug]

Ls2Venom - Awesome! Did your insurance agent keel over when you went to insure your car.

Boostedsnake - Are you sure you didn't swap those numbers?? If not, drive it like you're 29!

[Ls6venom]

Doug-
there was a pause on the other end of the phone, but i had a good clean driving record with no tickets.. (knock on wood) but i get a way with $78 a month. but i can only drive it 5000 miles a year, and i just rolled that in the 2+ years its been done, so its not too bad.

[uncltodd]

Boostedsnake, could you please post a pic of you and your Cobra?

The Kids in my car club, the Oklahoma Deadhorse Mustangs, make fun of me for being the oldest Deadhorse at 57.

If I posted a pic of you and your turboed ride on our forum, it would shut them up for a while, you betcha!

Thanks, Brudda.

UT

[Snake2998]

I'm 58 - bought kit in 1985 - completed it in 1990 - so approximately 35 when bought kit.

Currently setting up car for track day use after driving a CAV GT40 on a few track days and having my enthusiasm for track days kindled.

[cobra25]

42y.0. Born to a family racing a 289 cobra in 1966. My first car is a 1966 GT-350. I got it when I was 19y.o. I still have it today. Now I am waiting for a new CSX 4000. Born and bred Shelby fan.

[cheap]

Turned 28 last week and got my kit on the road for the first time last week. Bought my Factory Five when I was 23.

[WildBill1965]

Well, I guess this makes me the old kid here! Have wanted a COBRA for 45 years, ok how old am I how about 64 in December. Never too old, only as old as you feel, and when in the CAR I'm 16 again. They don't call me Wild Bill for nothing! Loving life in the fast lane!!!

[stuartb]

I am 30 and have had my kit for almost 2yrs. and it is almost done.

[DocDirk]

Been a workerbee for all my life, put the family, work, community activities all ahead of myself til I reached the young age of 59, bought a kit from West Coast and have spent 18 months putting it together with amateur skills but tons of enthusiasm!! In ignorance I shoehorned a 533 BB from Ford Performance Products into it, so I'll have to go reeeeeeeeeeeeeeel easy on the pedal for a while, I'm sure. The body comes out of the paint shop in a week and the car will be in for a posi rearend before I put it on... Who knows....this might be a helluva lotta fun!?! The building sure has been

Dirk

DOB 1/18/48

[JayBar]

I came to the Cobra thing late in life.. I was a "car" guy as a teen. Did engine swaps and even did ring job on my 55 Plymouth. Then as family and responsibility came on I got a VW then a Volvo then about 20 company cars over the years.

In my 40's my midlife crisis kicked in and I wanted to build a Cobra. At the time Contemporary was the hot kit. I priced out the build, well I though I priced it out. But as they say "If I knew then what I knew now" etc. Anyway I figured it would cost $25k, but I didn't even have a garage at my house. So I wimped out and went to the local Chev dealer and bought a new '85 vette. Kept the car 10 years drove it 50K miles. But was always sorry I did not do the Cobra thing.

Then at age 60 with family obligations reduced I thought of the Cobra again. Now I had a garage and time. I bought a partially built FFR. It's a long story but I ended up taking it apart and building it up again. Kept it for a year then sold it and bought a Backdraft. I started tracking it at age 62.
Then bought a Mustang Cobra and did the Cannonball One Lap of 07.
Sold the Mustang and bought a Corvette 00 Fix Roof Cpe, as my track car.

But I could not give up the Backdraft, there is no mistaking the "wow" factor of the Cobra.

Now an oppertunity persented itself to participate in this years Run and Gun so the Corvette goes on the back burner and the Backdraft gets the raceing seat back, with some suspention tweaks.

So here I go at age 65 to particapate in the premier kit car event in the Country. So it's never to late.

[Indy]

Just turned 38. Wanted one of these since I got my DL in '86

-Indy

[PANAVIA]

39 here. 40 in January. ==Wanted one since a drove an original 289 in 1986.

Loved the autokraft car , but could never find one that was actually for sale. --then helped a freind with an ERA427SC and after that I was doomed./hooked.

SPF 2734.

[VINCENT RUDI]

Started My Cobra When I Was 25 , 2years Later Shes Done. I Remember Playing With Cobra Model Cars When I Was Very Young. Every Time I See It Now In My Garage I Can't Beleive Its Mine! #1 Car Ever Made Nothing Else Like It, When Your Finished And Take It On The Road Its A Feeling That Is Unexplainable. I Tell Everyone That Is Thinking About Building One "do It Now" The Payoff Is Unlike Anyother, I Felt Gilty In The Begining Spending Money I Didn't Have But Some How Some Way With Hard Word And Consistancy It All Works Out In The End. Prepare Yourself For Ear Beatings From The Wife. Wish You The Best Good Luck And Remember "do It Now" You Only Live Once

[Andrew Teal]

Well guys I well be 65 this month. I saw my first Cobra coming down the alley when I was working on my first real sports car a Aston Martin 2/4 1956 drophead. I had trade my 1967 MGB and 25.00 a month for two years for the Aston. The Cobra was red and had wire wheels and and I can still see it today in mind how sharpe it look. About that time I saw my first racing Cobra at Kent raceway Park just south of Seattle at the seafare race Aug. I had my first ride in one when I was laying over in Portland Oregon for the CO. I work put us up just acrros the road from PIR. The guy who own this small block was runing aroud PIR on a track day, he asket me if I wanted to go for few laps and I said sure and it was one hell of ride.
In 1992 I bought a kit from Classic rds and built a big block car 427cid etc,etc. And every time I take the car cover off and step down on the pedal I get a big smile on face. Thanks Brett for the web site and all you others who have posted.

Andy Teal

[Dominik]

My average age is 44. Today I feel like 65.
I built my first POS Cobra replica in 1987. I learned a lot...

Dom

[jagxjr5012]

I am 42 on tuesday this week ...but I was only 33 when this thread started !!
On my second ERA.......