The Snake & The Stallion - best Cobra documentary ever

[eschaider]

I think there was a crack in time where the Cobra story was possible. Usually the necessary pieces to make something happen are impossible to put together for the event to come off. This time it was different. All the right pieces were certainly there, just laying around waiting for someone with the vision and drive to put them together - like so many times before. The difference this time was that Shelby was there and his vision and drive was just what the doctor ordered!

When you see the DVD(s) it becomes apparent there were many automotive and racing giants that all pulled together to make this happen. Most of us know the big names like Ford, Ferrari, Iacocoa, Shelby. But the team of Southern California hot rodders who were equally talented and the driving giants who signed up to the campaign reads like the Who's Who of motorsports.

Shelby's nickname was Billy Sol Estes. For the young'uns ol' Billy Sol was convicted of fraud relating to cotton and fertilizer. Most people forgot the cotton and just remembered the fertilizer, because of the bull $hit. The amazing thing about Billy Sol Estes was despite what he did people still liked him - he was just a real likable sort of guy. Well Carroll had a certain similarity. He could sell anything to anybody even if they didn't want it and when he was done they still liked him too. So the guys started calling him Bily Sol Estes.

These are a bunch of extraordinary insights into the real people and times by the real people and they are forever caught on the DVD(s).

I can't say enough good things about this DVD set. Buy it you will always be glad you did!

Ed