[RallySnake]

As a kid, I was into Ferrari's. I built models and loved the shape of the 250 GTO, the 275 GTB and the '57 Testa Rossa. Until 1964, when my fellow Texan, Carroll, started kicking their butts on the racetrack.

In 1964, I saw a silver 289 Cobra outside a slot car track. I had wire mesh headlight protectors and was just beautiful. A few years later, there was a Cobra in the Houston car show with an amazingly deep candy red paint job. It wasn't until 1970 that I saw one run. It was on an autocross course in Oklahoma city. It was an ugly orange 427 with short sidepipes coming out of the hole where the louvers normally are. The thing was a beast though, tearing around the track and knocking cones every which way. The brutishness of the car had everyone in awe. I had to have one.

Thanks, Carroll,
Paul