Joe,
Back when I had my Cobra I took it to a car show down South of Red Bluff just for the fun of it. Some guy was crawling on the ground to look under it and I finally asked him if I could answer any questions. He said no, he was from the Bay Area and wanted to see if I had actually driven the car as he was really fed up with the perfect cars and he could see rock picks on the front and the frame, plus the chrome on the headers and collectors had turned gold so he knew that I drove mine. That made my day more than if I had won 1st instead of 3rd.
Edit To Add: It had been just over 1 month since I have started the Cobra and all I did was mash the gas about three times and it fired off on the first turn over of the engine. I then pulled it out of the garage, shut it off and refilled the tank.
Ron