[CobraDan]

Having been to all four Spring Flings in London Ohio and only bringing my Cobra to one event, you have to know it’s about the gathering of gear heads that have a common interest in Cobras. Living in retirement in southern Florida if I want, I can drive my Cobra almost anytime during the year. Having tried to throw similar Cobra gatherings for my local club (The Deep South Cobra Club) I found that a lot of Cobra enthusiasts won’t travel across the street to join in any event. Our local club will be having its fifth annual gathering in 2005 also. After being the Vice President and then the President for a year each and trying to throw a successful event I threw in the towel as it took much more time than I wanted to put into it, even in retirement. I have to thank Ed and his entire family for their efforts the past four years knowing what they endured to throw these past four events for all of us (with a little special prayer for Wendy). London will be missed mostly by my wife as she has been to all of the Cobra events in London and a lot locally here in Florida. The Strawberry Festival gave her and the other women something to do other than Cobras. If my wife never sees another Cobra it would suit her fine but she has met a lot of the husbands and wife’s and enjoys attending the Double Venom Spring Fling with me. I know to put together an event of this type it would be nice to have a full year of planning which isn’t going to happen this year and didn’t happen last year. I know that a lot of people that attended the past shows were not in attendance at last year’s event because of the short notice, I really missed friends from California, Australia, and England to mention a few. This year will be no different because of the short lead time. We don’t need another Cobra gathering on the same weekend competing with the DVSF 5, now is not the time to fight about the location. I’ll be traveling a little further north to visit with friends I have met during the past four years at the Double Venom Spring Fling and now for the fifth year in a row, let’s give Jack and his club a chance.

Dan & Jean Wulff traveling all the way from Cape Coral Florida