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If you try and road race a light, short wheel base, high horsepower Cobra with an automatic, I think you're going to end up in the trees... or a casket.
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Shucks,
patrickt,
Since you're obviously a really knowledgeable prime speculator I guess I'd better quit doing it
I've spent quite a few whole track days at Sebring, Roebling Road, Daytona, Gainesville to name a few. How many tracks have you run while you were at the wheel of such a car with an automatic?
Get real.....
tin-man,
It's still a thrill after more than 26,000 miles! I wouldn't trade this car for any other that I've seen or heard of.
Just treat the car with respect which is waaaay easier said than done. I call it "right foot restraint." Especially when someone surges behind you repeatedly trying to goad you into "goosing it" or pulls along side yelling and doing burnouts repeatedly like a guy in a drag-racing style Chevy kept doing the other night - all the while yelling stuff I couldn't really hear ( LOL ).
Some Cobra drivers have been guilty of a momentary loss of caution, and have been injured or killed. Leaving a church parking lot (!) and blipping the throttle while turning onto the road, resulting in a meeting with a roadside telephone pole. Or a swerve to avoid an animal resulting in a spin and a meeting with a tree and so on.
patrickt's right about one thing - we're all going to end up in a casket - eventually. You can enjoy the ride much more without hastening that eventuality
with some discipline of the right foot.
Tom