Mark,
I spent a year painting my Cobra, boby work etc,etc, And my Cobra was built in 1992 when the bobys where strong but not as nice as todays Cobra"s.
One Fathers day several years back I had stop at Safeway to pich up some things for dinner and some one ran a shopping cart into the front of my Cobra knocking out several large chucks of paint. I think you should drive it like you stole it. They where made to be driven. All of us who can paint can almost always find a flaw in the best of paint jobs, so get one enjoy it and lay some rubber, pin your self in the seat, any Cobra is better than no Cobra
Andy