06-12-2009, 11:02 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Sunnyvale,
CA
Cobra Make, Engine: Factory Five Racing MKIII Roadster 347
Posts: 1,053
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Boy, a lot of talk about snobbery. It's everywhere unfortunately. People will always be human and flawed. We just have to deal with that. I guess I've been snubbed but I never paid it any kind or response. From the get go, I just loved the lines of the Cobra regardless of who manufactured it (except possibly the JBL which is just way too odd looking).
I told my wife when I was 45, that I will either build one or just buy one built. I didn't care either way so long as I HAD ONE! 
But as a general car nut, I wanted to challenge myself so the FFR was the perfect platform. I wasn't disappointed. 1,000 rivets later, blood/sweat/tears and an upgraded vocabulary and it's done... and it's not even show quality in my humble opinion... but that wasn't the point. It was to be driven. And I knew, like many here, that unless you own an "original" from the 60's, we're all pretty much replica's so I was blatant about it with the high back seats, dual roll bars, and Autometer gauges. And STILL, people ask me if it's original/restored. Now if they snub me after that, I would just mutter to myself, "well if you even knew what you were looking at, you wouldn't of asked such a stupid question"... but I defer to "if you have nothing good to say..."
If people snub me, it shows a lack of mutual respect. I just pay it back with no response and smile.
Last edited by 289fia_cobra; 06-12-2009 at 11:05 AM..
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According to these folks, there are no other colors in the rainbow.
. When I told her and her husband (they have his and hers mustangs as well as the SPF) that I was getting an ERA, they told me that the difference between SPF and ERA owners is that the ERA owners never drive their cars, they're are all just garage queens (the cars that is...well maybe they meant the owners too, who knows
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