[Snake2998]

Seeing the thread by David Williams regarding old classifieds brought the following to mind - I'm sure many others have similar stories.

In 1972 I was a University student touring the then Southern Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe) with my folks and during the evening before our last day in the country we were walking around Salisbury (Harare) when we passed a used car lot.

In the lot was a red 289 Cobra and an orange Muira. I immediately fell in love with the Cobra - the sticker price was $2000 and I had the money in my account. I said to my folks that I was going to buy it and they said "well we are leaving early tomorrow morning and how are you going to buy it, arrange payment and import it into South Africa, drive it the 1500 miles home in mid winter and start your lectures all in three days time."

Needless to say I never bought it and regretted that move until I built my replica 29 years later. I was an idiot - although at 22 I might well have killed myself in it..