[leroy17]

Christmas 1984, I was 14 and 'Santa' bought me a book... Muscle Cars of America. Flicking through the pages which I was completly enjoying as I have always loved cars and motorsport, there was a four page spread about cobras. From this exact moment on I was hooked....... whilst so many other cars came and went in life.... I still remember how looking at those four pages made me feel about a certain car...... the Shelby Cobra.

A few years later there was a animated Def Leopard film clip with a cobra in it... must have watched it 100's of time until the video tape broke.

No matter what new, fast, exotic, refined or outragous vehicles were developed and released, is was the vision which Carroll Shelby had produced in the cobra that had me bitten.

Your factory in Vegas has drawn me to travel from Australia 6 times in the last eight years to see the legends which you created, the legends which have inspired so many, the legends which make many men feel like little boys again and I know there will be more visits to come in the future.

I am pleased just to own a replica, I does not worry me that its not a real one..... but thank you for showing that a noisy, hot, cramped, unforgiving car is what many many dreams are of.

Cheers mate.