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LREYBURN 06-17-2010 02:28 PM
The first time
 
A. What was the first sports car you ever saw?
B. What was you age?
C. When (YOUR AGE & YEAR) was the first Cobra you ever saw?
D. What (location or event name) was the first sports car race/event you ever attended?

* When was your first ride in a Cobra or a replica?

MOTORHEAD 06-17-2010 02:55 PM
Now we're talking ancient history!!!
First sports car seen: TR2
Age: 16
First cobra seen; Age : 23, brand new BRG 289 slabside, AND he let me DRIVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!
First sports car event: 1962, Bridgehampton, NY. Stationed at Montauck Pt. AFB. Was corner worker at a couple of races there. A track carved out of the sand dunes! What memories!

LREYBURN 06-17-2010 04:11 PM
A. MGTD (Just gor to sit in it)
B. 12 yrs. old. 1955
C. 1963 20 years old, I met Carroll Shelby & Ken Miles
D. Spectator at Lake Garnet Kansas in 1963, wow, what a great weekend. It had a lasting impact. I told myself then, "Someday I'm going to do this!"

1982 in Atlanta, a guy had a Exclaliber Kit car for sale and I took a test ride...what a piece of junk.

Skuzzy 06-18-2010 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by LREYBURN (Post 1059089)
A. What was the first sports car you ever saw?
B. What was you age?
C. When (YOUR AGE & YEAR) was the first Cobra you ever saw?
D. What (location or event name) was the first sports car race/event you ever attended?

* When was your first ride in a Cobra or a replica?
A. Define "sports car". The first hot rod was my Dad's 54 Ford Coupe with a flat head V8. My uncle had a 63 Corvette.
B. For the Corvette, I was 9.
C. 9, 1963.
D. My Dad worked as a lap keeper at the local roundy-round. I hung around the pits. I was 6.

My first ride was in Dave's car. I helped him work on an axle seal leak and he took me out for spin afterwards. That was in 2009.

Gregg(What's his name)? 06-18-2010 01:33 PM
Back seat in my 66 stang. :D

Joe Wicked 06-19-2010 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by LREYBURN (Post 1059089)
A. What was the first sports car you ever saw? Not real sure. I had uncles who had muscle cars as far as I can remember, I remember my uncle buying a 240Z but not sure the year (mid-late 70s)
B. What was you age? 5-6 for the 240
C. When (YOUR AGE & YEAR) was the first Cobra you ever saw?14 1987 Saw one in a parade. He let me sit in it at the car show afterward.
D. What (location or event name) was the first sports car race/event you ever attended? Not real sure. I have vague recollections of sitting in the stands at a dirt track. I used to go to the drag races all the time as a teenager.

* When was your first ride in a Cobra or a replica?
First ride was in Miles' SPF. I helped him rewire a relay system for the pusher fans and he took me for a ride afterward.

thomi_snake 06-22-2010 08:45 PM
the first time
 
A&B: growing up in Stuttgart, Germany, right next to the Porsche factory, the first sports car I remember seeing was a 911 back in 1967 at the age of 3.
C: in England on my first longer road trip shortly after receiving my driver's license in 1982 at the age of 18
D: Nitro Olympics Drag Racing at the Hockenheimring in 1989

I drove my first Cobra Replica in 1988 (can't remember the brand), I had to transfer it from a car dealership to an Alpine Car HiFi event we were sponsoring at the shop I was jobbing at.

Seagull81 06-22-2010 09:35 PM
Wow this knocks some rust loose.
A. Ferrari 250 in a showroom, downtown West Palm Beach, Fl.
B. Age 14
C. 1967, 21 yrs. old; a friend from high school had one when I got back from Nam
D. 1968 Sebring 12 Hours, won by Bruce McLaren and Mario Andretti in a Ford GT MKIV

Rick Parker 06-22-2010 10:25 PM
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A. What was the first sports car you ever saw?
B. What was you age?
C. When (YOUR AGE & YEAR) was the first Cobra you ever saw?
D. What (location or event name) was the first sports car race/event you ever attended?

* When was your first ride in a Cobra or a replica?
I was about 9 when a couple moved into the neighborhood with "His & Hers" MG TC's. Not sure what year they were but I remember the big wire wheels.

The first Cobra I remember seeing up close was a Black 289 in spring of 1965 at an Auto X in Fresno Ca. The car was owned by Sam Cardwell who was the caretaker of several Cobras in Fresno and owned an independent British Sports car repair shop.

Laguna Seca 1965, Sophmore in H/S; Cobras and Porshe 904's (or 906?) hauling ass around the old turn 2 & 3, at the time I didn't realize how special it was to be there..

Clois Harlan 06-23-2010 06:47 AM
I remember walking past a bug eye sprite around the age of 14 and thinking is that a Cobra! I later went into a show room with my dad and they had a blue one on the floor. I have never been the same since. :) Oh yea, in the 50's my grandfather had a MD-TD with wire wheels and a pull up top. I think it was green?


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