What is with a COBRA?

[trularin]

It is just forking fun!!!



Let's face it, there are wicked bad cars that can turn 8s on the street. They will try their wares everytime you are cruising. But you do not have to do a dang thing...you simply look better than them.

[PFSlim]

The first cobra I saw (that I can remember) was my brother's 428FE Premier Motorsports car. I fell in love right then and there and decided that someday, I had to have one. Only a few months left to go on my build, then no more dreams. Just drives. Can't wait!!

Paul

[427 S/O]

That was me!, couldn't take my eyes off it! and wanted one 'real bad', course I didn't have a pot to piss in back then.....

Originally Posted by PFSlim

The first cobra I saw (that I can remember) was my brother's 428FE Premier Motorsports car. I fell in love right then and there and decided that someday, I had to have one. Only a few months left to go on my build, then no more dreams. Just drives. Can't wait!!

Paul

[puppster]

When I was a kid growing up in the 70's, we had a radio flyer wagon, it was a horrible 60's green/gold color (not even the nice red color) I remember riding down hills in that thing, trying to steer with the handle that was pulled back into the wagon with me, but at totally the wrong angle to have any control over the front wheels. It was a thrill everytime, whether I ended up flying out and into the grass, or if I made it across the finish line in my mind. It was pure fun. You could do alone, or with your best friend, it really didn't matter.

[Got the Bug]

Originally Posted by big-boss

What is with a Cobra? Why do we like these cars? Is it the hunt for the cool parts? Driving fast? The way it looks? Comrodey with fellow Cobra guys? What do you think?

Me: It is the combination of building the car and succesfully compleating a journey/ experience- voyage if you may.

Big-boss,

This picture of you pulling into the Kirkham open house (in the snow) popped up as a random photo when I opened CC this morning. As they say, a picture says a thousand words.

[RedBarchetta]

I like driving a vintage race car on the street...with license plates. 'Nuff said.

-Dean

[CobraBoy]

I am not yet the owner of a Cobra. I first became acquainted with the phenomenon that is the Cobra via a kit car guide that a school friend handed to me when I was fifteen years old. From that moment, the Cobra became part of who I am.

The car has a reputation. It is simply the baddest, fastest, Ferrari-eating, Corvette-slaying, fire-breathing monster of a barely disguised road-going race car ever conceived. Its like will never be seen again because safety legislation will not allow it. That fact alone is enough for me to want one.

Then there are the aesthetic factors; the look of the car is the perfect combination of beautiful, female-esque curves and sheer aggression. The chassis is an obsolete design - it was when the car was new - but it is certainly capable. The engine and transmission are the epitome of brute force and muscle over finesse. The interior is spartan and functional, yet attractive in its simplicity.

And the noise... Well, once I heard an American V8, I knew I 'had racing gasoline in my veins!' A Cobra, once heard and felt through your ribcage and the ground, is never to be forgotten. I can still remember where I was when I first heard a tuned, Tunnel-Port FE the first time; it was in a Ford J4 (GT40 Mk. 4). And when I saw and heard a Contemporary Cobra with a 428 FE under its hood at the last motor sport event ever held at Crystal Palace, south London, that was it for me.

A Cobra with a big V8 has been my ultimate ambition since I first laid eyes on a picture way back in my formative days. Enough said.

Paul