What has YOUR Cobra been mistaken for?

[cobrageno]

one lady said, is that a mazda miata?

[Hydramada]

Originally Posted by STL Mark

Sometimes the really little kids say 4 to 9 years old kinda think it looks like a cartoon car (you know it really does) but I'm always surprised when young people (teens, etc) know exactly what it is.

The teens all know what an AC Cobra is because of the driving games for PS3, XBOX, etc..... Most of the games have a Cobra as one of the bonus cars you have to win races in order to drive.

[rollinggeorge]

Most people are sure it's a real Cobra.....True but not 44 years old.

Others ask if it's a Kirkham.

[Dangerous Doug]

Wait! Wait! Wait!


A Studebaker? Seriously?

DD

[Russ Dickey]

Corvette, Jaguar, and the Speed Racer Mach V (by some little kid).

[WarrenG]

An MG. Amazingly enough it is usually the "older" crowd who should know better who can't figure out what it is.

[MaSnaka]

I overheard a woman ask my tennis coach if that was his corvette. He wishes...lol. An older english lady said my car reminded her of a "put put". My car doesn't go "put put" does it? I hope not. While I was filling up with gas I heard these kids on skateboards go by and one said "that car is sick" to which I replied "no it's a Cobra". It's all good.

John

[gene giambona]

MG is the most common mistaken identity, and once someone thought my car was a Cheetah.

The kids do pretty well recognizing it's a Cobra thanks to the video games. One kid even said the Cobra was great on the straights, but was too hard to handle on the turns.

[CoupedUp]

A little different since I have a coupe, but Viper is the number one "guess". Aston Martin, Jag, Ferrari, and Vette are all popular answers as well. One kid ran up to me in a parking lot asking me what it was. When I told him it was a race car from 1965, he sai "Woaaaa - I thought it was from the future!" Cracked me up, but quite a complimentary statement for Pete Brock's design!

Doug

[larryar]

While at the London Cobra Show one year I had an alternator go bad. A fellow member of the Capital Area Cobra Club ( Capt. Crunch) drove me to an Autozone for a new one in his 427 cobra. While waiting for me to come out, a woman commented to him that he sure had a nice bugeye sprite!

[Roush #1]

While stopped at a gas station recentley, a guy walks over and says although he doesn't like Mustangs, he liked mine. I replied that they grow on you don't they.
J

[CowtownCobra]

I was filling up one time way out in west Texas when 2 young cowhands straight off the ranch in an old pickup pulled in. They kept looking and looking, finally one of them worked up the nerve to ask me "Sir, is that a Jaguar?" No I said, it's a Cobra, designed by Carrol Shelby, to which he replied "a lady built that?". I laughed for miles leaving that town....

[Dangerous Doug]

Originally Posted by CowtownCobra

"Sir, is that a Jaguar?" No I said, it's a Cobra, designed by Carrol Shelby, to which he replied "a lady built that?".

Now THAT is LOL funny!

DD

[Rickd]

When my first cobra was brought home my neighbor, a retired professor, asked "is that an old corvette"? At a stop light in Miami a young couple rolled down the window and "wow that is really cool .. is that the new BMW?". One more knowlegeable Brit followed me a couple of miles in the Florida Keys until I stopped for coffee - and he pulled in to ask "is it real", as he was familiar with them having been built in the UK by AC.

[rattlesnakepete]

At the race track everyone knows what my car is of course. On public roads it almost always get mistaken for a Cobra.

[WildBill3]

I have gotten the is it a an old Saab twice and an Opel Waaatever

[Juggernaut]

It's been mistaken for a "factory" built car, not one built in a garage.

[Poolw]

Last year my son and I cruised up to the local Saturday night get-to-gether and as I drove in this old man held up his hand as to stop us. I stop and the old man said, "Aston Martin?" I'm older too and I didn't understand what he wanted so I said - "what?" He pointed at my cobra and said "Aston Martin?" I simple reply, "yes" and then I heard him say, "at least I got one right"

[Sharroll Celby]

Someone asked me if my Cobra was front-wheel-drive or rear-wheel-drive!

[Tommy]

My favorite misidentification was by a 4 year old boy who stood stunned, staring at my bright red car. I looked at his mother and she said, "He thinks it's Lightning McQueen from the animated movie Cars."