[ignatzcatz]

I have posted a couple of pieces about my Cobra build but I do have difficulty in accessing my original thread so I'm going to start over in the first section of the the web under the 'all cobra talk' heading.
So why a Cobra kit car? Some years back, my 'other' vehicle was a Ford Popular, you call them Anglias which I had built up gasser style. It was sitting fairly high, tube front axle on semi elliptics all chrome, narrowed XKE rear end again all chrome and polished, medium s/b 302 with Barnes cam, edelbrock torker, 600 double pumper and nitrous. The trans was a C4 with a 10" GER converter. The car went well, 13's at the run what you brung but I just got bored with all the cleaning. Even on a dry day, fairly rare in England, you could go for an hours' drive then have to spend the rest of the day cleaning all the chrome. Also I had a desire to get on track and have a go at racing other than straight line stuff. So when at a car show, a guy made me the proverbial offer I couldn't refuse, I parted company with my lil' gasser Pop.
My airline company wanted me to move closer to the main UK airport - LHR so with an imminent house move some of the car funds went towards this and what was left which wasn't much went on an undecided new project.
In the UK we had one hot rod car magazine which was called Custom Car. It was pretty crappy but it always had a bunch of adverts in the back and it was one of these that caught my eye. A 95% built Dax Cobra kit car. It was not too far away so I went to check it out and found that although it ran and drove I reckon a model T Ford would have done a better job, and as for 95% built, it was more like 25% built and the remaining percentage just thrown together. But, big but, it was cheap and in its current state was exactly what I was looking for. The deal was done. I towed it home to my new house, with a double garage, and in the first week pulled the weedy little Rover 3.5 engine and automatic gearbox out then stripped out all the wiring which was plainly a fire waiting to happen. During the second week I had the body off the chassis so I could really get to work. Then, surprise, surprise, my wonderful airline said we want you in the States and promptly shipped me off to the beautiful Newark, the gem of New Jersey to head a new section.
To be continued