Dissed by a fellow Cobra owner WTF

[mrmustang]

So here I am cruising the back roads of southern Penn. last weekend in a friends BB Cobra (dark green no stripes, no rollbar, no sidepipes) when I pull in to the gas station to fill up his tank (hey 428CJ's drink a lot of fuel, especially when I drive ;D ). When in pulls a group of "far superior" built "other brand" cobras. Three of the drivers get out and walk over to the car I was driving and start telling me how superior their cars are to "mine" how theirs have round tube frames and modern suspensions and how their body is much better copy of the original than mine (perky trunk lid and all) and how they built them from scratch. Then they start picking on the car I was in, look at the lack of quality of the paint with all of the chips, and how the brakes seem to be inadequate and how the knock offs I was using just did not look right, same goes for the dash and gauge layout and the faded carpets, and what is this, a radio mounted up underneath the dash, REAL cobras never came like this. So I allow them to finish their dissertation and basic unrequested comment period and walk back to their superior self built cars...I then decided it was time to check the oil level on the 428CJ, so I shoo them away and pop open the hood...it's only then that the fourth driver in their party walks up and says "hey I know this car it's owned by "Joe xxxxxxx (not his real name), hey guys, come on over and check out this all original 427 street car" (CSX3000 series two owners since new and still wearing it's original paint ) . yet these fellows stay by their cars across the parking lot from where the two of us are now conversing. You want to talk about seeing three adults make fools out of themselves, well I'm sorry I did not have a camera handy to catch the look on their faces when they realized they just put down an original car as not being well built or looking as original as it could. So I get back in the car and fire it up and give them all a wave, only the fourth driver who came over to chat me up about the car waved back...WTF :P ..The moral of the story, hell there isn't one I just wanted to share the flip side of the "koolaid" equation...Funny how certain cobra owners are blinded by their own brand, and so jaded towards other brands that they cannot appreciate the other automobile(s) for what they are.......


Bill S.