Average Age?

[Rick Young]

Like owning a Cobra, adding to this string is never too late.

I wanted a Cobra from the first day I saw one in a Ford show room in '69 while I was in college. The cost was prohibitive then.

After graduation and during my carieer with a major construction firm, where I was bounced around the country every 18 to 24 months, I finally saw my first real chance of Cobra ownership in an ad from Arntz.

I was in Hawaii at the time and could not get the logistics of an incomplete homemade car and company sponsored transfers coordinated.

After 23 years and an upcoming retirement, I finally placed my order in December of 1993 with a fairly local company, LAExotics of Buena Park, CA (now they are B&B). The kit was delivered in April of 1994. I was 50 years old then.

I built the car in four and a half months and have been driving it for seven years with almost 40,000 miles to date. I built it with a basic stock engine and automatic because I knew it would only see road miles, and I wanted lots of them.

To enhance the utility of the car I designed and built a folding convertable top. We take the car on vacations now and have a real blast driving it. I also reengineered my seats so that we can take six to seven hours, with only gas stops, and not feel beat up at the end of the day.

We have been as far as Idaho and Wyoming on six occations, about 1800 miles each trip. We go to several local car shows and drive the car where ever it goes. We use it to get groceries, go to church, go to the the movies, go to resturants and sometimes, just for fun also.