My Cobra for Sale...

autoxmike · #1 (**permalink**) 08-20-2007, 07:02 AM

Time to re-arrange some things in my life. I've decided to sell the one earthly possesion that I swore I would have forever. Priorities change, and last evening a thought popped into my head to sell the Cobra. 10 minutes later it was on the Club Cobra "For Sale" forum. It has great sentimental value because my late brother started building it in 1992 and me & my other brother finished it in 2005, just in time to take him on a once in a lifetime roadtrip.

Here is the For Sale Ad:

http://www.clubcobra.com/classifieds...hp?product=687

The Cobra is a great driver & track car, but is not currently a "show" car by any stretch of the imagination. It is the Cobra for me because I have no qualms about hopping in it and driving it anywhere. If you want a trailer queen or show car then this is not the car for you. With a bit of work it could be though. If you want a Cobra to drive & enjoy & tinker with then this may be the one for you.

Priced for Quick Sale....

JWheaton · #2 (**permalink**) 08-20-2007, 07:28 AM

Mike -- Good luck with the sale. You will always have the memories and that great video.

GreenSnakeDoc · #3 (**permalink**) 08-20-2007, 02:14 PM

I'm presently looking for a semi-finished Cobra and I'm interested; however, I expect I might have trouble getting a title in North Carolina. When your brother signed it over to you, did he/you put your name on the title? There's a previous week-old post with a similar situation, where a middle person did not re-title the Cobra. The proposed solution was the middle person to obtain a title in his name so he could transfer it to the new buyer. North Carolina will reject a title application if the exisiting title has any corrections or erasures on it.

olblu66 · #4 (**permalink**) 08-20-2007, 03:16 PM

Mike --- You will truly miss that car. You might take a step back and rethink . It's part of you and youre brother.It would be the last to go because of the past. Good Luck

Silverback51 · #5 (**permalink**) 08-20-2007, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by olblu66

Mike --- You will truly miss that car. You might take a step back and rethink . It's part of you and youre brother.It would be the last to go because of the past. Good Luck

Got to agree. After reading the history of the car, and what it means, I would try anything legal to keep it.

Lowell W · #6 (**permalink**) 08-20-2007, 06:44 PM

Are you kidding???

Let's not rush into anything here... You sound like you don't really want to sell the car, anyway. Put down the keyboard and back away...

It's a beautiful car with a ton of sentimental value. The end of the season will be here soon; why not drive the car for a couple more months, park it for the winter and then see how you feel?

Lowell

autoxmike · #7 (**permalink**) 08-21-2007, 09:01 AM

Thanks for al of the kind words of advice from everyone. In my heart I know it is time to move on. I will always have the memories plust the videos & pictures. I suspect that my son & I may end up building another kit or maybe fix a car up for him. He is 13 years old now and the "working on your own fun car" "bug" bit him during & after our Cobra cross country road trip. Deep down I feel that I am letting go of something great, but do not need to see the Cobra in my garage to have the great memories that it inspire. Physically letting go of the Cobra may allow us to move forward and make some new memories that would even more special for me & my family.

Silverback51 · #8 (**permalink**) 08-21-2007, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by autoxmike

Thanks for al of the kind words of advice from everyone. In my heart I know it is time to move on. I will always have the memories plust the videos & pictures. I suspect that my son & I may end up building another kit or maybe fix a car up for him. He is 13 years old now and the "working on your own fun car" "bug" bit him during & after our Cobra cross country road trip. Deep down I feel that I am letting go of something great, but do not need to see the Cobra in my garage to have the great memories that it inspire. Physically letting go of the Cobra may allow us to move forward and make some new memories that would even more special for me & my family.

Well Mike, it sounds like you have really thought this through.

Best of luck to you on selling this car, and building something in the future with your son.

Clois Harlan · #9 (**permalink**) 08-21-2007, 01:06 PM

I am glad David got to "Enjoy" the Cobra for a short time. I am sorry for your loss of David but your video tells a pretty good story of three brothers and a son. Keep the Cobra!

Clois

MaSnaka · #10 (**permalink**) 08-21-2007, 09:52 PM

Mike, From an outside point of veiw nobody wants to see you part with your Cobra for many sentimental reasons. I understand parting with it may help with your greiving process and ability to let go and move forward with your's and your families life. Perhaps keeping it and finishing it...(completing the detail work) would help you with closure and then you can rethink keeping it or being completly done with it. Truely the memories and the video have much more value than the car. But I can understand memories can be painful too. Whatever you decide have no regrets, good luck.
John

autoxmike · #11 (**permalink**) 08-22-2007, 05:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Clois Harlan

I am glad David got to "Enjoy" the Cobra for a short time. I am sorry for your loss of David but your video tells a pretty good story of three brothers and a son. Keep the Cobra!

Clois

Clois,

Thanks for the kind words & thoughts. One part of me would love to keep the Cobra forever, yet there is now a larger part of me that knows that it is time to let it go so that I can move forward with my family and spend the precious little time we have together to make our own unique memories. My son is 13 and my daughter is 16, so they will out on their own soon. I am quite sure that at some point, probably very soon, my son & I will start a project together which will let us have many great expereinces and build many memories that I can treasure as life marches along.

I have found that by closing one door sometimes many more will open....

Daytona Coupe perhaps?

PS: I think you are in Tulsa? My in-laws are near Bentinville, AR - not far from Tulsa if my memory serves me correctly. I made 3 round trip drives there this summer @ 1600 miles per trip. Wanted to take the Cobra but still can figure out how to fit 4 people....

autoxmike · #12 (**permalink**) 08-22-2007, 05:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Clois Harlan

I am glad David got to "Enjoy" the Cobra for a short time.

Clois

We are thankful that Dave got a small window to enjoy the car he started building in 1992. I wish we would have completed the Cobra a month or so sooner. He drove it for a few miles when we threw the body on it. I have a video he made of that - it is hilarious. Dave aspired to be a film maker but never got around to that. I have several more of his videos that are quite funny that I will upload and post link to....

Dave MAY have had the strength to push in the clutch and drive it a bit on the road trip, but we all know my brother, and none of us wanted to be a pasenger at 130 MPH in a CObra when driven by someone with almost no muscle control and reaction time that is best measured with a calendar! It was incredibly hard to tell him that he could not drive it when he asked, but none of us could risk our lives and affect our families by letting him drive, as I am 90% sure that we would have had a horrible accident!