Post Reptile Roundup Thanks and Thoughts

[CobraDan]

I just attended the 8th annual gathering of Cobras at the Reptile Roundup, held from November 6th-9th, 2008. Starting on Thursday they held a 2-day high performance driver’s education event at the Gainesville, Fl road track. Then on Friday starting at 7pm we had our meet and greet behind our host hotel in Lakeland, again this year sponsored by Reg Dodd and Backdraft Racing with pizza and drinks for all that attended. It was really great as always seeing so many old friends who I only get to see once a year at this annually held event. Reg had many Cobras to look at but he also brought along their first CAV South African built GT40 in red, just a great looking car. Backdraft is now the American distributor for this GT40 replica along with their Backdraft built replica Cobras. Wayne Pontes of Tangible Toys another of our sponsors brought along his red continuation Cheetah, this was the car that was originally built to beat the Cobras on and off the race track. On Saturday our 1-day car show was held at the Roar N Soar event, and hosted on the grounds of Fantasy of Flight. The DSCC had a Cobra Corral that parked us right in front of their museum at the Fantasy of Flight. There was another car club in the parking lot area and different things going on all over the grounds at the Fantasy of Flight. They had RC controlled planes and boats plus the real planes and boats. They had a Salome course, plane rides, parachute jumpers, the museum and so many other things to view and see that I can’t remember it all. We had a stage placed right in front of the Cobra group where a disc jockey played tunes and more than once our song “Hey Little Cobra”. Later in the day we had a live performance from the Blues Brothers on that same stage. On Sunday the Cobras gathered for breakfast at Cracker Barrel and then a Poker Run and later their departure for home just waiting for next years annual event.