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Steve: Hockey is my passion. Always loved it. Started skating at 6. I continue to play regularly at a high level to this day. My problem is, as you have pointed out the stamina it takes to play competitive hockey. It is harder and harder each passing year to stay in sufficient shape to be competitive and play at the level I would like to. Guys on my team typically range from 25 to 30 and are ex college players. My defensive partner played for Navy. I'm the old fart but I tell them I just smarter then them.

Anyway it helps keep me young and maintain my girlish figure.

Hockey is clearly the most difficult sport to play and play at a high level. Most people don't realize how difficult it is. The NHL players make it look easy. Too easy. Give someone skates, a stick, a puck and 30 seconds on the ice and they'll understand.

I finally read your initial post on this thread. Carriers don't like what they don't understand. The owner built factor is probably scaring them. They are not car people. I would suggest that Cobras if built properly are no more dangerous then older sports cars which had minimal safety equipment. Perhaps Great American could hire an inspector, sort of like CARCO requirements for writing used cars but this would be to inspect the car to document its proper construction before writing it.

I understand that the carriers don't want unknown or unquantified risks. You can't blame them. Therefore let them inspect the cars to document there road worthiness. The owner pays for the inspection.

Its not so much the power to weight ratio that has them freaked IMHO. A Suzuki Hyabusa has an equal or more impressive power to weight ratio then some Cobras. Mini Vans today are equipped with 250 hp engines. They can rate that risk by looking at who they are insuring and the driving record. Its the unknown factor of how the car was constructed thats scaring them.

Cure? Let them inspect it with a check list or have the owner provide a signed approved checklist from a certified mechanic.