Club Cobra - Hi Ya'll

Hello all,

I'm a new member, old Cobra fan, and a new kit car owner.

My first meeting with a Cobra happened in 1962 at a Ford dealer in Baltimore. It was a slab side 289 behind velvet ropes and a watchful salesman that wouldn't let a skinny 15 year old car nut within 6 feet of it. A few years later, an acquaintance inherited $10K and bought a new 427 SC and drove it around town with a white crash helmet on! I happened to be beside him on the original Baltimore beltway ( 2 lanes each side, concrete) in a 65 Mustang and revved up my 200 CI 6 cylinder and watched him punch it and break the tires loose at 60 mph in 4th gear! That was when I knew I had to have one!!

Fast forward to 1973 while attending a course at USC, 3 of us huddled every morning with the latest Autoweek newspaper scanning the classifieds for a great Cobra deal. There were many in those days including a dismantled Daytona Coupe for $20K and numerous 427's and 289's for 15K and 10K respectively. Problem was I didn't have 10 or 15K! One day, my buddy misses class and I ask the class leader where he was, seem something important came up and he wouldn't make it in that day, hmmmm........... Next morning he shows up in a 65' red 289 Cobra which he bought off a guy's front lawn for $6000! He let me drive it once that same year and it is the only "real Cobra" I have driven.

As of today, my friend Bobby Scott and I are the proud owners of 2 unassembled Lone Star LS 427 kits. They are at his house and are awaiting construction which should begin very soon. They will both be powered by small block Fords (his a 351W mildly uprated 345HP, mine stroked to 434 CI with 550HP) run thru Tremec 6 speeds and Dana 44 IRS's. We'll post some pix when work is complete.

Sorry for rambling on, but I'm slightly excited to get to this part of my life. Congrats to all of you that already own one and good luck to all that want one.