Carroll, I just wanted to thank you for starting a dream for me when I was a kid. I can remember my brother in law telling me about Cobra's when I was young. I was a Corvette kid then, didn't think anything could touch them. After my brother in law told me about the Cobra, I started getting pictures of them from car mags. I still remember the first pic I got. It was a red one, with a kinda surfer guy driving it. I just thought it was the coolest car ever! I lusted after them from that point on. Over the years I collected every book or magazine article on them. I researched everything I could find out about them! In Canada, we don't see them too often. Back then, never! I remember seeing the first replica. It was at Mosport and the Aurora factory was there promoting theirs. I looked at them, but they just didn't do it for me. I had promised myself that someday, I would own a real one. I remember seeing one in a parking lot near my home years later. It was nice, but I was still hoping to get the real thing. The years passed and the value of your creation escalated! I soon came to the realisation I would never own a real one. Then one year, I was reading an article in Playboy (doesn't everyone) and I saw that you were building them again. This rekindled my hope and dream. Through some poor investments and a marriage gone south, that dream slowly vapourised, too! It wasn't till many years later, I met the woman of my dreams! She was beautiful and an Asian! She found out about my dream and bought me a replica! I was so blown away, I found it hard to believe and deal with! I was in heaven! About a year after that, I started to talk about replacing the SB with a BB and trying to make it more "correct". My sweety, ever the business mind, told me "Why don't you order a real Shelby?" Sometimes I think she regrets that suggestion. It has rekindled my dream and my seach for everything I can find out about your car. So that is where my story ends, I have ordered one of your CSX. This CSX 4*** will be speced out as close to an original 66 SC as I can make it. I like to think that it is a tribute to you, that I am building it just as you built it back in 1966! It is proving to be a long wait, but I am sure it will be well worth it! Just wanted to say thanks!
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"The 427 Cobra is easily the highest performance car ever sold for street use. A decent 427 - not the worst, not the best, will go from zero to 100 mph and back down again to zero in less than 14 seconds. All thing considered, you can put together a pretty good argument that the 427 Cobra is the ultimate performance car, judged on any basis you want to name." Taken from; Corvette, The Sensuous American
