05-26-2007, 01:26 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: SoCal,
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Cobra Make, Engine: FFR, Carbon Fiber Body, IRS
Posts: 22
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March 2007. Dick and Heater Smith cruised for 10 days with Karen and I on our sailboat in the Caribbean. The happy AAARR stories were endless and Dick is the greatest of speakers be it one on one or to an audience of thousands.
I'll be brief and share one detail he told me. Years ago air vents were cut into the front wheel splash guards of #198 CSX 3035 and covered with a screen mesh to relieve pressure in the front wheel wells.
Last year Dick graciously asked me "you want to drive it?" The location was Willow Springs "The Fastest Road in the West" and I will never forget the experience. He showed me how to start it and off I went. Up to that day knowone had every offered to even let me sit in an original Cobra let alone the FASTEST one of them all.
I've made the same splash guard vent cutouts in my carbon fiber Factory Five, the same FFR that Dick did some test laps in at Run and Gun 1999.
Roger
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FFR, Carbon fiber body, IRS.
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