Rick
We (either i have a mouse in my pocket, have been elevated to the Popemobile or drive the only driver-ed dual steering Cobra in the world) have been street driving a 91 Lightweight since new, equipped in 95 with a breathed-upon 351 crate. It is the sweetest driver ever and has gobs and gobs of poop. It weighs 2290# in street trim, half-fueled, with bumpers all up proper, but the roof erector set (still perfect and unused all these years) and spare stay shelved.
Shy about such details, i just want to underline the clear preference i have for a proper street driver over the blunderbus approach to nirvana... i know a 50cal macine gun is fun, especially out on the high Chaparral desert, but when it comes to removing the command structure, i would prefer a single shot 50cal, at night, with a really big "special" scope.
The nice thing about Cobras is how many variations are possible within the visual envelope, each having its own strongly idiosyncratic virtues without becoming monomanaticly typical as schizotypal personality signatures. [Whew!]
Translation: Cobras, like people, come in many flavors. There is no best or worst, they're all good, just different and widely varying degrees of goodness. It's a big bell curve out there fellas.
Of course, the young and yet much experienced can only get their notions from mass media or singular experiences, so they lemming into big blocks. No problem. Maturity, increased earnings, experience and discretion all create knowledge that allows for increased awareness of other ways to skin the cat.
No problem, BB's are forever also. But, there is room on the planet (and this forum) for more variation of reptilian life forms. Not every Cobra is a King Cobra.
Trevor Dear,
i can get 18mpg if i balloon-foot around in the Tremmec's 5th gear (3550HD). Not all shabby, say wot?
Are you serious? Does it really cost that much for 4 star in Jolly Olde? What's the liter price? I haven't been there for a few years, but that is awful. That means the drive to Monaco return would be nearly $1000+??? GAAAAGGGG!
Must be more confiscatory taxes, because it is certainly not the price of
oil. The taxes must be percentage based and not pennies per, which will ALWAYS create economic dislocation when the
oil price indexes upwards.
"AC"
Too bad Lubby-Doo screwed himself out of the British Type Certificate by only buying the assets of AC Cars, Ltd. and not the whole company, as advised by me through PW. Once they lost the Brit. std, the German TUF was also forever lost and FORD had good enough reasons to withdraw the name, since the original company was deep-sixed forever. They should have listened to Brian, but they never even ASKED him...idioten.
„Worin liegt der Sinn einer Gesellschaft, die immer reicher wird, aber niemanden glücklicher macht?“ – Stoffer
Or if not luckier, at least smarter?
But, the Kirkhams Reign, mon amis mate (with respects, of course.) You still have great kit rules, better than ours. Safer, easier and quicker. But, if you have been following the Titles Unlimited story in CA, not cheaper. (At least in the short run. But, of course, in the long run we are all dead.)
Gotta go, Ciao Grosser Bambino,