Average Age?

[Greg Curtis]

I'm 59 years old going on 39. Saw 5 of the originals on a ford lot when I was 19 each having a 428 Cobra Jet engine in it. Remember the salesman chasing us kids away every half hour or so when we went to sit in one. Price was $7500 which may as well been a million to a 19 year old kid like me. Finally when I was 54 I decided to buy my SPF and never looked back. Still a blast to drive for a near old guy!! I don't believe I just admitted that!!!!!!

[spookypt]

I'm 36 in 5 days. Bought my first Cobra at 33 and now putting another one in the garage (1/2 owner) to keep the first Cobra company at 36yrs.
SpookyPT

[jagxjr5012]

I had my first Cobra (ERA) at age 28.....now I am 41 and I am on my second Cobra (also an ERA) ....I just love the car. I can have a great day just backing it out of the garage and cleaning it over a beer with my dad !! Priceless !!

[FIREMAN]

I have loved these cars since I was a boy, I am now 53 yrs. young and only 7 mos. from retiring from the Houston firedept. I have decided that instead of a gold watch of which I would have to buy that I will purchase a new BackDraft Cobra. I can't wait to see it setting in the garage or better than that to see me looking into the rear view mirror.
Great thread and some good reading! Have been lurking for a while now and enjoy the the good posts and all the great info on the cars.
R.G. Chandler

[601HP]

Recently turned 55. Have owned this car since 1994. My wife has and still does fully support this toy. Both of us decided in 1992 to work toward buying, building and driving a Cobra.

I'm still mildly apprehensive, maybe excited is a better word, each time I start the engine.

We'll probably keep it until getting in and out of it is too much of a challenge physically. We hope that is a long time from now.

David

[Bluesman]

I bought a rolling chassis from Butler Racing Inc. when I was 38. After two years of on and off interest, I completed the project. Put 10,000 miles on the car in the 1st ten months. That was in 1991. I have 17,000 miles on it now.
Don't drive it very often anymore.
Only had one "owner caused" breakdown. After 18+ years of owning this car,
I still love it like the day I first put the rubber to the pavement.

[Scott Smith]

Art

I haven't spoken to you in years.
You were thinking of stopping here on your way to Paul N.'s several years ago.
I hope this finds you well.

Scott

[michel schryer]

I'm 46,no kids,one dog, a very nice wife and all the time in the worldto build my cobra.

[BRSIII]

Money is certainly an issue, but I managed to get my kit when I was 30. Seems I was always fascinated with Cobras. Got out of the Navy in May 95 & landed a decent job with HSB as a boiler inspector. About a year later I ran across a deal from a guy in Vegas that had purchased the kit from CR a few years earlier, but never built it. Been working on it since. 42 now and still not finished!!! pic's at flickr.com crclassic427build

[Jim Koepke]

I've been talking about doing this my whole life. Sold the house, moved to the cottage full time, bought a Hurricane kit, KC 408 Etc. Life is good.

Retired

[stretch]

i am 32. got my 1st kit on valentines day (2008) finished it at the begining of april.
already bored and want somthing different. it is fun to drive, took it to the dragstrip and got kicked out for running 10sec. passes with not all the correct safety equipment.

after i sell this one i think i see a coupe future.

[Chaplain]

I'm 58.......rode in an original when I was 19 and always wanted a Cobra. Unfortunately it had to wait until later in life because of other financial priorities. I have an 90" wheel base BBF Everett-Morrison. An IRS wasn't important to me, it's so stiff I don't think I could tell anyways. Driving and working on it is pure fun; but just walking out to the garage, taking the cover off and looking at it and knowing it's mine is the fulfilment of a dream.

[Lawler]

I am 42 and wanted one ever since I saw my first one in the kitcar magazine in the eighties. I was twenty or so. If I could have afforded it then I would have owned one. I believe it is a man and machine relationship rather than a hey look at me I am almost to old to be doing this kind of thing.

Kinton

[linklaw]

I'll be 48 next week and bought my AC MKIV in the summer of 2005. I had looked at a new one, on the Woltz & Wind Ford showroom floor, in 1986, but had neither pot nor window at the time. My friend bought one in the summer of 2003 and I started to look. I eventually sold three other cars, a Healey 3000, E-type Jag coupe and 1963 Comet convertible, to buy mine. I have never regretted it one bit. John

[JOHNNY813]

Im 26 an i picked up my ffr mk3.1 on april 19 2008

let the good times roll

[RalphSchmalph]

After practicing law for 35 years I retired. When I was in high school I followed the types of sports cars that raced at Lyme Rock and Watkins Glen. I had trading cards of gull winged Porches, Cobras, Ferraris and Corvettes. I always loved the Cobras best but never thought you could buy one that wasn't an original until just a few years ago. After driving standard shift cars most of my adult life including a 65 Mustang, BMWs, a Miata and the '73 240Z I finally realized my dream when after a near death experience I decided time was running out and pulled the trigger last month. I ordered a BDR 342R and am anxiously waiting for July 10th when it's supposed to be ready. Spending money on myself was always a difficult thing but with the kids grown and gone I decided it was my time and my new Cobra is going to be one of many new pages in the book of my life. I'm a very young 61 and don't plan on ever getting old.

[uncltodd]

Ralph- What triggered me is when you said..."Spending money on myself was always a difficult thing..."

God has been good to me, I will not die a rich man. I'm still hammering "My Kids" through college, we have no children.

I am a broken-down, busted-up old fart, at 57, but I still have young friends that I have qualified to take me around the patch in Gunrack, Build #139.

Gunrack has been for sale for over a year, no legit offers.

Rock on, Brudda.

UT

[Boostedsnake]

I am 92. I feel like a butterfly.

I started to build my handmade Scratchbuild Cobra when i whas young in -90.Not 1892 ,he,he

But now when i have became Wiser i have turbocharged the bastard. I want some stomp these days.

[Ls6venom]

Well i am 23 years old now and finished my car spring of 06 when i was 21, i bought a frame from everett-morrison for $2200 when i was just 16 years old, a sophomore in high school.. no joke

[Got the Bug]

Ls2Venom - Awesome! Did your insurance agent keel over when you went to insure your car.

Boostedsnake - Are you sure you didn't swap those numbers?? If not, drive it like you're 29!