Slab side in a parking lot

[Dan Case]

Originally Posted by Tommy

"Dan Case
1964 Cobra owner since 1983, Cobra crazy since I saw my first one in the mid 1960s in Huntsville, AL. "

I, too, saw my first Cobra in Huntsville in the mid 1960s. I worked at Redstone Arsenal and drove to work through what must have been the SE gate every morning. About once a week, I'd hear the siren call of side pipes and look around to see a Cobra cruising to work in the same clump of traffic. After I saw it the first time, I looked for it every morning. ... Great memories.

Dark blue? If so, it might have been Tom Odom's home grown racer. He sold the Cobra and bought a Can-Am car that he drove out on the base. At one point there was at least eleven (11) Cobras and a three (3) 427 Cobras and a GT40MKI in Huntsville at the same time before 1972. There was a GT40MKII in Decatur until about 1983. CSX2144 was in sight of my house and Tom’s was over the hill. I wanted to buy Tom’s in the 1970s but I had just bought a Boss 429 and was broke at the time. It is said that Tommy Andrews took a death car wrecked Cobra to salvage yard and watched it get cut into pieces. They say the engine went to a late model stock car for Huntsville Speedway, the transmission to a hot rod, I saw the intake manifold said to have come from it, and I had a steering wheel in the 1970s believed to be from it.