Club Cobra is now 10 years old! Oh, and Happy New Year!

[Enzo Alibrandi]

Brent,

10 years goes really fast. I remember finding your site even before I had an on line catalog to offer for Finish Line. I think I just had a typed list. I also remember John McMahon announcing that he would be at Carlisle that year and that he would be wearing an "Ask Me About Club Cobra" sticker and that is how we would find him. He was out letting everyone know about the site. I remember "Meat" and your frustration with him. I remember how you told me you heard about us through Sherrie who found us first and ordered you a set of sunvisors and gave you a catalog. I remember Wayne Turpin who used to organize the Run N Gun. I remember suggesting to you that you should have paid advertisers. I remember you took a poll about it on the site and we were your first paying advertiser. Before that we would hold an occasional donation time and let the members call us in a credit card or send you something directly to help keep the site going. Over the years I have sent many customers to the site that would call looking for something or with some sort of technical question that I had seen here and they would call me later and thank me for the site. When Enzo built his first two cobras there were no sites like this for help and we made a few costly mistakes. Now no one has to reinvent the wheel. Everyone lets you know all the different avenues you can take to solve a problem during a build. This site has had many many interesting topics over the years and has created many friendships. I've even been able to share about my grandson with cancer and many have arisen to the occasion and made the little boy happy with notes, presents, cards, donations. Thank you Brent. I remember some years you were so busy and things would get out of control and hard to handle and your moderators have really stepped in and helped you out. Thanks to all of them too. Here is to another 10.

Paula Alibrandi
Finish Line
www.finishlineaccessories.com