What is your very first memory of seeing a Cobra, live and in person...

[Bill Bess]

I was standing in the middle of Robertson Blvd. in Hollywood , flagging traffic for the So. California Gas Company in 1965. I heard this loud, rough bad as* sound that was shaking the street. Up pulled this little English sports car with the engine and side pipes making so much noise and the windshield shaking so much it looked as though it would fall off the car.
WOW! what the heck is this thing? of course I soon found out it was a Shelby Cobra.
Bill

[computerworks]

First "visual sighting" - seeing the car at Motion Performance in Baldwin when we passed the shop on Sunrise highway.

First "encounter" - 427 on the L.I.E...I was driving my 66 GT350...we did an impromptu race from a slow roll... gave me a few car lengths lead and promptly blew my f*ing doors off.

[Dominik]

I saw my first one at the french Riviera, a white 289 in 1986(?).
Second one was a red 427 cruising on the german highway also mid 80s.
I met the owner about 15+ years later when he was about to sell it.

[mrmustang]

1967/1968 (I was very young ), Dockery Ford, got a ride in a slabside by a service manager (or the owner, I can't remember), got to sit in a 427, and I know for a fact that I have been in their GT350 "R" Model (parents might even have a picture of me in it (them). Countless other times through the late 60's and early 70's...Then nothing again until 1978/1979.........Then annually after that


Bill S.

[DAVID GAGNARD]

1968 when a local guy bought a big block Cobra to road race all over the south....he would occasionally come to a local junk yard in it hunting spare parts...he picked up a couple of toploaders and an extra 427 out of wrecked cars for his Cobra....
then again in 1970 when another local guy bought a 427 street car for his daily driver after selling his 65 GT-350!!!!!!!!!! I would see that red car almost daily, he kept it 2 years and sold it for a whopping $3,200.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

David