Britain's "remarkable automotive cottage industry"

[Trevor Legate]

clayfoushee

Thanks for the thanks - my time here has not been wasted! Wonderful!

Just to clarify a few things - as an admittedly lapsed member of SAAC I have the greatest respect for the Clubs efforts and achievements, especially to Rick Kopec who was a mine of information and assistance when I was thrown in at the deep end to write my first book circa 1979. Generosity above and beyond the call.....They still continue to assist and send me all their newsletters to keep me updated. I only wish I could say the same about the UK equivalent! The only downside to SAAC is a West Coast faction who would remove AC Cars from history (look in the drivers footwell guys, what do you see?)
If you could bear a quick story that illustrates the "problem" in my mind;
Some years ago, the British Cobra guru Rod Leach created a money-no-object twin-turbo 7-litre 'very special' Cobra and sent photos to SAAC. At the next SAAC annual convention in California, they showed his slides at the dinner- with the images reversed to make the car a left-hand drive (American) model. Members were stamping their feet and cheering, dancing on the tables - which would have been OK but Rod Leach was sitting in the audience. I think the word that I am looking for is "Respect."
Such details aside, great club, nice people, wonderful conventions.

However, as I have maintained for the past 30 years....If it looks like a Cobra, sounds like a Cobra and goes like a Cobra.........its probably a Cobra. Happy motoring!

Here endeth this thread??