Why do you own a Cobra?

[zipzip]

I actually wasn't looking for a Cobra way back when....

I saw this really cool looking car on "Miami Vice" - if you remember that show. I went looking in a car magazine for the Ferarri Daytona Coupe and saw a magazine full of cobras. That did it. I instantly fell in love with the car's look. I was about 16 at the time and told myself I would own one of those cars by the time I was 30. I didn't quite make it, but I now own one that I built and have enjoyed the whole process. The car was licensed when I was 39 - only 9 years late. I consider it a success!

[AMiller]

Cant afford restoring Mopars any longer. Prices are just nuts. Cant afford to drive restored Mopars the way they were intended. Once again the prices are just nuts.

The Cobra looks increadable. You can drive the wheels off it and get any part you break fairly easily. There is no 1 of 25 or 1 of 100 crap to deal with. Im talking reproductions of coarse.

You dont have to start with rust. All parts can be factory new.

All the looks, sounds, and appeals of the greatest era of cars combined with the ease of off the shelf parts readily available.

[cobrarkc]

When I was 17 there was a dealer in my area called the Glass car company that sold Vettes. I went in to check out the cars and in the corner he had these funny english looking cars.
That was my first experience seeing a Cobra in person. From then on I new I wanted one.
Seven years later I embarked upon a jorrney that I have never regreted.
Its the most fun you can have with you clothes on.

[Dan Stryffeler]

Why did I get a Cobra?

Well... like marriage and having kids, it sounded like a good idea at the time

Dan

[Bill Bess]

I wanted to build a Hot Rod, but none of the usual stuff "did it for me", so what to do?

I wanted something sexy, very fast, cool looking and something that made my blood pressure go up. Something that made me want go fast..charging the highway and getting more excited each second and car that could twist your headoff and make heads twist.
The only car that ever did it me is the little Cobra...it's so sweet you know.

Bill

[round_midnight]

Three simple words: Sex on wheels.

[ROUSHAC]

Could say that I saw one 40 years ago and fell in love with it. Only took me 38 years to get one for myself.

Actually, though, it was so that I could get some better mpg than my other vehicle.

[Sal Gerace]

I've taken pictures of my almost complete Cobra to my job and were showing them to differant people. You can tell the people who really "get it" and the ones who don't. I had one guy flip through the same three pictures for about ten minutes. He was bitten!

[4pipes]

Always wanted one from the time I saw one in San Jose in the 60's while attending college. Really wanted one when I saw the so-called continuation models at the Historics, they where trying to sell them onsight. Thought they were outrageously priced for a replica. Sorry Evan. Sat in many of them and thought I could never fit in one. Finally decided to get a Kirkham. This allowed me to have a close to original car, yet I could modify the crap out of it for my long body and not worry about bastardizing a real one. Glad I did, life is short and this is the one car I always lusted after (besides the 250GTO).

[Power Surge]

I don't own a Cobra, the Cobra owns me.

'Nuff said.

[Randy H]

If there would have been a 7th option on the poll..."or all of the above" My guess is it would have overwhelmingly won.

[rbray]

I not really not sure why I bought one. It just seemed like the right thing to do at the time

[yamazee]

why you ask? Simple,,,,,, Its a sickness!

[hey,littlecobra]

from my first car, '66 MGB to the Cobra... wow!!

MG at 16, great 'starter' car for a naive, 'speed and cars' in her blood teenage girl.

Saw my first Cobra in August '03, and did a uturn in the middle of the road to turn around and go see it. What is this? I asked the man. A cobra......

6 months of research (well sorta) and ERA 291 was in my garage.
blind luck and thanks to Gary M.

If CC hadn't been online, i wouldn't have found 'my' Cobra. Months and months of research, and then a simple post of "cobra for sale".
well as ya'll know... the rest is history.

[petek]

"Much later (late 70s), I started being flown around in a client's plane by his pilot...a guy named Dick Smith. Most of the time just the two of us for 2-3 hours each way, so I'd sit in the co-pilot's seat and have to listen to him talking about freeking Cobra this and freeking Cobra that. Sucker never repeated a story. "

Jamo... I envy you the time you spent with Dick Smith!


For me it wasn't the racing history that attracted me to the Cobra but the combination of appearance and purpose. The Cobra simply looks and acts the part; it is what it should be, nothing more, nothing less.

For aircraft a P51, Spitfire, or DC-3 is the same as the Cobra. Precisely what they need to be.

Other cars? 246 Dino, Ferrari P3/4, GT40, Porsche 917, and maybe even a Countach (not perfect, but it defined a supercar for years).

[Clayboy]

It was love at first sight...Road & Track meets Hot Rod Magazine. The TR4A I had years ago was nice, it was fun to drive, but it wasn't a Cobra. Like many of you, I always thought having a Cobra was never going to happen. Then the realization that it's all going to end someday and to not have the pleasure, the experience of owning and driving this car that has been the epitome of a roadster...well. Long story short, let's get one!!! Haven't been disappointed yet. zoom, zoom, zoom!

[tmareina]

I bought mine because since 1967, when I was 20 and had my chance to buy an Original but had second thoughts and didn't, it has been the ONLY car I really wanted. I finally bought a Unique (38 years later) and havn't been sorry. I can't imagine why I didn't buy the car in '67, I bought everything else. It's the only decision I was sorry I balked at and truly regreted in those 38 years.

[427 S/O]

It reminds me of a 'woman' not a flat panel anywhere, then add the performance and brute power of the 427 S/O and you've got bliss...

But I built mine and everything is enhanced...

[WildBill3]

I like all the cars Shelby has had anything to do with!!We also have a costantly dogged by a lot of so called Shelby supporters Shelby Charger we are original owners and the car has been fantastic over the years with several championships and tons of miles under her belt .Our coupe isnt one of the six originals but we love it the same and since I dont have the millions it would take to own one I like what we have..WB3

[tc_sj]

love at first sight, beautiful car I ever seen, own couple BMW/Porsche but do comparison to the cobra ever

I got more compliment on the cobra then my Porsche/BWM