What is the LATEST recognition your Cobra has had recently?

[Steve R]

Kelly,
Did I ever tell you the one about joining the Mile High Club in a Cessna 152?
Steve

[John McMahon]

...that would have to be any number of my friends that enter my garage and say:

"....IT'S BEEN FOUR YEARS ALREADY A-HOLE....WHEN ARE YOU GONNA FINISH IT????

[Doug Axelrod]

Yesterday, when I could FINALLY take her out with the temperature all the way up to 40.

I was trying to take some measure of the new heads (got me another 57hp at the wheels), but the street wasn't sticky enough. Anyway, I was sitting at a light, with that deep irregular idle at about 950, and a guy walks out of the gas station next to me and just STARES before getting into the vette that was sitting by the pumps. He pulls onto the cross street, turns left by me, and just HAMMERS it pulling away. (no gravel, though, Hal.)

I just had to laugh out loud. Poor guy, he thought he had something....

[bittentoo]

Steve, your the Man! I'll remind you to tell me about it at Austin

[Edley Rondinone]

Cruised thru Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills a few times, and got a lot of the usual 'thumbs-up' and smiles; on one of the passes, I had this exchange with a group of young, Middle-Eastern women:
"Is your car for sale?"
Me...."Sorry, no. Do you know what kind of car this is?"
"No. But it IS a beautiful car!"
Me...."Thank you!" Then the traffic cleared, and they drove on past, out of my life forever!

[SPEEDEAMON]

Edley, you show off, you.

What ever happened to the cheerleaders you were going to photograph with your Cobra. I would like to see them sprawled across the hood or sitting on you lap inside your car.

Shin

[rdorman]

That is nothing! Pulled up to a bar the other night in the Cobra. This guy is stagering out. You know the type................ lived there for the last 20 years and this is his first time outside since. Burps loudly and says 'I have a REAL one in a barn'
Rick

[blykins]

You should have found out if he was a glass-jaw or not....he would have never remembered it anyway.

[Steve R]

Kelly,
The C-152 blurb is total B.S., the other story is true. Hope to see ya in Austin.
Steve

[Edley Rondinone]

Originally posted by SPEEDEAMON


Edley, you show off, you.

What ever happened to the cheerleaders you were going to photograph with your Cobra. I would like to see them sprawled across the hood or sitting on you lap inside your car.

Shin

Shin, I guess football season is over, and they dont do any more cheering events. I will try again if they have spring football, and maybe get some photos then.

[Michael C Henry]

Several people ask how my car is running and I have to tell them that it is still about two feet above the garage floor but hopefully It'll be running this summer again.

[werthie]

Don't you just hate it when the guy behind you has no idea what you're driving, so he creeps up slowly and tries to read the little Cobra badge on the back?

Every time this happens, the guy's car keeps getting bigger and bigger in my rear view mirror, and I'm sure he's gonna wind up with his grille in my trunk.

Has anyone else suffered a near heart attack when this happens?

[G.R.]

Sunday I was working on my car in the garage when I heard this Wow look at that, I looked up and in my drive were three young guys on bicycles maybe 12-14 yrs old. Is that a Cobra, yes, wow. you want to take a look at it? Can we? sure c'mon.
More wow's, this is so cool etc. They walked around the car , looking it over--more wows etc. Asked a few questions. You want to sit in it--Really, yeah really , wow 160(saw the speedo)will it go that fast--Not with me in it---I really don't know. You want to hear it--3 chorus Yes. I fired it up let it rumble for a minute or two, blipped the throttle then shut it down. Wide eyed looks from the the lads. As they left I overheard one young man to his friend saying I want one of those , his friend said I thought you wanted a tricked out Honda Accord like Mikes(an older brother?)--Not any more ricers suck compared to that, even Mikes. And off they went.
Sort of made my afternoon. Very polite young lads with their first look at a Cobra--made an impression I think

[Trevor Legate]

True story from the UK (why not) Some years ago, two completely original genuine Cobra race cars had recently been restored, both painted bright red, and were en route to Goodwood for a little light excercise ( The very famous racer GPG4C of Charlie Agg and the ex-Le Mans '63 Cobra of Nigel Hulme) You can imagine the sight and sound of these 2 running in convoy....!! They pulled over the make a quick inspection on one of the cars and were just about to leave when a car passing in the opposite direction slowly rapidly to take it all in, only to be re-ended by the following car whose driver was doing much the same, at a greater speed. The Cobras fled the scene but I would love to have read their insurance claims!

[Unique 289_FIA]

Showed an elder co-worker a picture of my newly acquired 289. He says, "Alright, retro! Nice looking Corvette!"

Doh!

[stremboli]

While I am a ways away from completion, I have a story that may not be as good as most of the others, It still makes me smile.
My UPS guy who usually leaves packages outside my door took it upon himself to leave a Summit box in the garage because it was raining. I came home to find it just inside the door and said to myself, that was nice of him. Later that week he stopped again, seeing a car in the driveway, he rings the doorbell. He says "sorry to bother you but the last time I was here I left a box in your garage and saw you were building a Cobra. Do you mind if I ask you about it?" He was all over it for about an hour.Well we are "buds" now and he frequently stops to see the progress. And when he has a package he asks "issit for the Cobra?" Hows it coming. He just stops in now and then if he sees the garage open, just to look at the progress.
Needless to say, everything I get via UPS arrives safe and sound.
Jack

[Edley Rondinone]

I took one of my female friends for a ride this weekend in the Cobra. When she saw the car, she said:
She: What a nice little car.
Me: Thank You.
After getting her inside and all buckled up, I started the Cobra.
She: Why is it so loud?
I gave her the explanation of the sidepipes, hotted-up 351W, cam, etc, I could tell she wasnt really impressed......
So, we proceeded to our coffee date that morning; she just sat there, staring out the windshield as the world went by. We got to the little coffee shop, her with some sort of coffee, and me with a hot chocolate, and we had some good conversation............
I talk to her a couple of days later, and she said she never wanted to go for a ride in THAT CAR again! She said it just made too much noise for her. Oh well........

[Chaplin]

Edley-
Along the same lines . . .

I received an anonomous letter from a neighbor begging me to "please, please put mufflers on the car" because it "shakes every inch of the neighborhood more than you realize" and "wakes and disturbs our children."

If they only realized that it's got mufflers and it's as quiet as its going to get I did get the letter a couple days setting the timing so it was run longer and louder in the driveway than it normally is. Lucky for them I won't have to set the timing again this year

[Bill Wells]

certainly not as glamorous as some of the posts...but, i usually let my car idle in the driveway once its started for a few minutes tol let it warm up before i slowly crawl out of the subdivision keeping it as quiet as i can.

i have a neighbor in the 70s across the street who complains that my car is so loud her windows vibrate. I told her that she should get new windows as the ones she has are single pane and 40 yrs old.

then she added that her daughter works nights and if i start it in the morning hours befor 11 am it wakes her up. i told her that her 45 yr old daughter, never married and living at home should fly the coop and get day time job. heck , i am retired, and drive the car all the time at all hours. hello.

needless to say, i am not on her social or christmas lists..but on some 'other' type of list, can you say DOOH DOOH list ?

i have one neighbor with a harley with straight pipes and another with a 32 duece with a wild motor, both are louder than my spf. this gal calls me to complain when she hears them thinking it is my car and i have to tell her to look out her single pane windows and in my driveway she will see nothing and i am talking on the phone so obviousl not in the car. duh..

as an aside, my wife wont ride in it either..too loud she says.

the neighbor is a nice gal though, i guess. and the wife will ride in my other toys so all is well. bill

[rmb_cobra]

My story is more about my CACC shirt, which I wear proudly at dinner parties and various events. At a recent birthday party for an attorney friend of mine, one of his colleague's wifes said, with a real puzzled look on her face: "you belong to the Cobras? Did you go to XXX High School? I didn' t know the cheerleading squad sold shirts!" Ouch. I went on to explain that it was a car club, etc. , but the aging blonde didn't get it...... I guess I need to give her a ride in the car...