Why do you own a Cobra?

[Yetiman]

A friend of mine built a Cobra a number of years ago and I was always hanging around helping if I could or just taking it all in.

I had some pretty fun cars over the years and had rides in some pretty fast stuff, but I enjoyed the blasts in his Cobra better than most any of them.
So when it went up for sale I bought it.

I am more of a sports car guy than a muscle car guy and the high point of my summers is going to vintage races at Road America. The Cobra gives me a decent taste of that on a regular basis and it fits in at just about any gathering, be it street rods, muscle cars, sports cars or autocrossing.

And I kind of like the attention too. I wasn't used to that being something of an abominable snowman myself.

[speed220mph]

Cutting through all the haze, because it was there - - -

[Dans65]

I'd always loved the Cobras from the first days in middle school, when a friend of mine told me about Shelby's Shelbys & Shelby's Cobras. And I bought every book I could afford to find out about the cars and dreamed how cool it would be to drive one, to own one. But I never thought I would ever be able to afford it. It wasn't 'til about four years ago when my best friend purchased a FFR MkII, inwhich I fell in loved with. And just maybe I can do this in the next several years. And here I am now Building a dream car.
Dan

[Baz]

Year - 1964. My age - 20 and car mad. Then I saw a picture of my first Cobra. "Wow" I said. "One day I'll have one of them." Living in Sydney, Australia, I didn't get to see any real Cobras, only the odd replica. I am now a retired 64 year old and have finally started to realise my dream. My car is in the process of being built and should be road registered by July, 2008. No longer will I have to rely on looking at Cobra pictures, posters and models on my bar. Soon I will have the real thing.