Don,
JB:? Yes I was more than a little surprised to see a JBL pop up. And this particular car is for a very special wanna bee! Of all people, like many, has paid his "dues" many times over. He had contracted with the Great Lakes Replicas - Terry Gattrill - to have a very special CR Cobra built. Steve in his excitement to go from wanna-be to actual owner was blinded by his faith in mankind. Gattrill took 28K from Steve right from the start. (To show you how good at what he did, (& rumor has it he - Gattrill is starting another Cobra business all over again -Buyer please beware! ) Steve is a professional Banker!) Of course Steve never saw the first part from Gattrill!
At this point of course the dream has begun to tarnish, the wife, his family.....well we'll just leave that one alone, but Steve after his nightmare had finally started to diminish has been able to recoup some very hard earned cash and is trying to venture forth once again.
I actually entertained getting a hold of some of the (In) famous Gasholes, maybe Jamo was ready to sell his dulled out KMP by now for much less than what it is worth. Or maybe Brent would offer up his!
Back to reality, Steve did a little more homework this time and decided to put his faith in my hands, at least to ask pertinent questions for him. (Actually two +/- years ago I tried to warn him about Gattrill, but it was to late for many, many people caught in that trap!)
So, that is how I got involved with Steve, just an all around good guy that had a little to much faith. I told Steve I would be happy to try to help him Pro-Bono and see if we couldn't find him his special Cobra.
Have we? Hopefully within the week he will finally enjoy being a first time Cobra owner!
DV- We are
family!