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Dave, here is a photo of the late Dick Smith signing the "Club Cranky" banner at VIR and not a REAL Cobra in site. Some people just know how to have a good time together weather their car is REAL or not.
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Roger; I met Dick Smith a few years before VIR in Tulsa at that SAAC meet, even let him park next to me at the hotel
........I got a picture of it somewhere.
We had a BBQ set-up in the hotel parking lot and had it going as well as some "liquid refreshments"..... Dick came by and had we not know who he was (we recognized him from photos) you'd thought he was just a "regular Joe" there....that's what impressed me the most about him, very unassuming fellow and a friend to everyone, regardless of what car you owned,if you even owned one!!!!!!!!!!!
Through the years I've met a lot of folks at SAAC events, gladly most were like Dick....... Some years back, I was pestering a guy with all kinds of questions about his two, 65 GT-350s,poor guy, one was a street car and the other a Vintage Racer.....I guess he got tired of me bugging him about the race car with all kinds of questions, so he told me to go find a helmet and come back, which I did and then I strapped in and got 4 hot laps around the track......Nicest guy in the world, we are close friends now and have been ever since that day....even though I have a POS 66 GT-350 CLONE....When he saw my street car he was actually impressed with it as to how accurate it was to an original 66 GT-350 and this guy restores Shelby's for a living!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think he also has very bad eyesight
I've also met a few of the "upper echelon" folks who wouldn't give you the time of day if their lives depended on it, but, thankfully they are few in numbers and easy to spot a mile away, those, I just ignore and stay away from..........
David