Carroll Shelby Tribute thread. Be a part of it.

[Power Surge]

Like most people, the Cobra dream started for me at an early age. I was always a car person, and in my childhood years I was not loyal to any brand, as I didn't even know what brands were back then. I just liked cool looking cars. As I entered my teens, I became a tried and true Ford nut, and the 427 Cobra SC was the top of the list of dream cars. In my teen years I had many posters, articles cut of of magazines, and other Cobra related items hung on my bedroom walls, with dreams of owning one of these awesome cars.

Fast forward to today. I am 33 and own a performance Ford shop and dyno tuning center. I've owned over 60 Fords since I was 15 years old. A few years back, I realized that I COULD finally get into a Cobra replica. I went out and purchased a kit. I realized that even though it was a great product, it would still leave me yearning for the real thing. So now I own CSX4241, which I have been taking painstaking measures to turn into an accurate recreation of an original car. That in itself, is a big challenge, considering how many differences there were between the original cars, but that also makes it more fun.

The Cobra is the greatest icon in automotive history, bar none. There is no other car, that was made in such small numbers, that has such a huge following 40 years later. Dozens and dozens of companies have replicated the Cobra over the years, which is a great testiment to how much demand there is for people to live their dreams. And the car itself is timeless. The lines are still as sexy today as they were 40 years ago. And the bare bones 40 year old race technology, still keeps the Cobra up to speed with all but the most exotic or high dollar speed machines today.

Carroll Shelby is the man who made this all happen. While there were many others involved in the creation and building of the car, without Carroll, there was no Cobra.

So I thank you Carroll, for giving the world such a masterpiece of automotive history.

Oh, and those Cobra posters I had hangning on my walls as a teen 20 years ago? They are hanging in my office here at my shop. I kept them all these years, and they were my incentive to obtain my dream.