[Silverback51]

Originally Posted by patrickt

I can think of half a dozen Cobra fatalities without even trying, both from this forum to my local club (member on a turn by his house that he'd probably seen a million times before, too much throttle, the result? Our local club leader admonishing the members "guys, please be considerate of the family and don't drive your Cobra to the funeral." ) Or how 'bout the guy from California, about this time last year, that let his girlfriend take the wheel? A flat, easy curve (showed up great on Google Earth), too much throttle from a novice driver, killed them both. But even really slow accidents are potentially life threatening in these cars. Take the guy out in Florida last month going to dinner with his wife -- hits the curb at a pretty slow speed (the Cobra didn't even look banged up). Both of them off to the hospital, him in critical condition with blunt force trauma to the head. Remember, just because your Cobra stops from 20mph when it hits a curb or embankment doesn't mean your head stops. It continues in to your unpadded roll bar at that same 20mph. These cars are like M-80s when we were kids. And there was always that kid in class who couldn't wait to buy a pack around the 4th of July. Remember? We used to call him "three finger Sam." But I've made my point. I'll shut up now.

Were these cars all automatics?