[Tommy]

Around 1968 I worked Summer and Winter quarters at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama as an engineering co-op student. The daily commute to the base was crowded and slow as thousands of employees went to work at the same time. One winter I found myself creeping toward work along side a Shelby Cobra about every week or so. It was apparently someone's daily driver. I always heard it before I saw it. I was enamored by Corvettes at the time and I recall thinking that it looked very uncomfortable with its ill-fitting soft top and open side windows. Stop and go traffic and my lack of automotive knowledge at the time made it look unappealing as the only car I might own. And I couldn't afford one back then either.