Some Original Cobra Owners are Real Snobs

FFRCobraMike · #1 (**permalink**) 07-13-2008, 11:52 PM

I just got an e-mail form my friend Howard who has a replica Cobra. He was at a car show down in Atascadero, CA and was parked next to an original Cobra. The owner asked the car show organizers to move his car as he did not want to park next to a replica. Then Howard asked if he would like to join us on our cruises and the guy said " I don't associate with replica owners". Now there is a person that does not deserve to own a car like that! Talk about a jerk! It was a good thing I was not there or he would have gotten such an earfull, he would have left. I have several friends that own original Cobras or Shelby Mustangs and they just like hanging out with any car guy and do not think they are above everyone else because the have a fat checkbook. I wish we knew who he was so we could teach him what owning a car like that is all about. He obviously hasn't a clue!

Excaliber · #2 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 12:59 AM

The other shoe, I'm sure some replica owners are jerks as well, thats life. I think this a rare example for either side.

mrmustang · #3 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 03:40 AM

Mike,

Was it an original, or just a Real(tm) one

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As for snobs, I ran in to a bunch of them driving FFR's last year while I was airing out a friends original 60"s Cobra here in PA Dissed by a fellow Cobra owner WTF ....Unfortunately, the shoe does actually fit on both feet...........

Bill S.

FFRCobraMike · #4 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 04:30 AM

Well I guess there are jerks in every crowd. As for myself and Howard, we just like taking cruises and hanging out with anyone interested in cars. It doesn't matter to us whether it is original or a replica or if it is a VW. A car guy is a car guy to us. I appreciate all kinds of cars from sports cars to hot rods to classic and vintage. Every car has good points and bad points, so my feeling is, appreciate it for what it is regardless. Thats what makes it fun. Besides comparing 60's technology against 2008 technology is just silly. If there weren't improvements in more then 40 years, then we are in more trouble then I thought. If I had the bucks, i would own an original myself, but since that will never happen, I fullfilled my dream with a replica. I just hate anyone that thinks they are better then others and act like snobs, whatever they drive.

Mike

LoBelly · #5 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 06:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrmustang

Mike,

Was it an original, or just a Real(tm) one

.

As for snobs, I ran in to a bunch of them driving FFR's last year while I was airing out a friends original 60"s Cobra here in PA Dissed by a fellow Cobra owner WTF ....Unfortunately, the shoe does actually fit on both feet...........

Bill S.

You know when I read the title of this thread that old thread 'Dissed by a fellow Cobra owner WTF' about the Bill's experience while out driving one day instantly popped into my head. Enjoyed re-reading them all over again

The irony of this post is just fantastic and basically proves the point generally being made in Bill's earlier post, that it has nothing to do with the car.

LoBelly

Dingocooke · #6 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 09:43 AM

brilliaint; made me laugh out loud; classic un-informed snobbery!

But there are bigots, and people inflicted with a 'superiority complex' in every walk of life, and many shades of grey of course...we all accept a fake snake (sorry replica..) , but what of a fake ferrari kit (fashioned from a mazda miata), or perhaps a fake rolex, or fake raybans????????

Anyway just thought Id throw that in the mix!!

My best 'its a fake' moment? Driving my old hawk Lemans locally, and a guy at a bus stop shouts 'fake, FAKE'...loud enough I hear him over the poorly silenced rumbling V8...:-)

Of course the bus he was standing and waiting for was 100% genuine :-) :-)

RodKnock · #7 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 10:02 AM

He probably just bought it at an auction. The long time owners have always seemed like great car guys.

Traveller · #8 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 10:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrmustang

Mike,

Was it an original, or just a Real(tm) one

.

Bill S.

Uh oh,........

Dingocooke · #9 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 10:12 AM

More irony; and the really funny thing is there are as many true enthusiasts that have bought cars than have built them; Ive both built and bought cars and bikes; as far as I can tell its nothing to do with whether they built them or not; surely there are both great guys and not so great in both camps?

For me, I rest happy that the majority of people are decent, and only a tiny minority (less than 1%) spoil it sometimes; Im guessing you met a 1%er...

imagine2frolic · #10 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 10:15 AM

Every facet of life has it's jerks. Unfortunately that's just the reality of it. Usually these people lack some serious social skills, have no self value, and even less FRIENDS HAHAHAHAHA

SKINNEDR · #11 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 10:54 AM

The best way to explain all of this about guys like that is, those are uneducated rich guys. Those are the most ignorant people you can find in the world.
They inherited the money from someone else effort.
Dex..

RedBarchetta · #12 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 10:54 AM

What color was the car? 427SC or FIA?

Dangerous Doug · #13 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 12:19 PM

Some people really need to get over themselves. Sounds like "new money" to me.

DD

RalphSchmalph · #14 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 12:34 PM

"It's not what you have that matters, it's what you enjoy."
- Bikram Choudhury

427 S/O · #15 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 12:44 PM

Yeah! there are replica jackass's as well.....Went to a local car show and just walked around after I parked mine, came up on a guy with a black replica that had a FE and I ask, whatcha' got in there,,,,in a smart ass answer he said,,,,a 427 cobra jet. I said Really! and I walked on.

SKINNEDR · #16 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 12:53 PM

I personally don't mind being asked questions about my car, however I don't like been asked what I paid for it. That is one question that I would not answer. I guess when I don't answer that question I can be persceived as a jerk.
It is a replica also can be considered as an ORIGINAL Backdraft.
Dex..

David Kirkham · #17 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 01:56 PM

That is really too bad. All the original car owners we know are really nice. Several of them have even bought cars from us.

David

trularin · #18 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 02:04 PM

Dave, you are in a unique position.

Plus you come across as a nice person.

There are always jerks. We all have something that we find to be..."unacceptable".

I think in this case the person was as described -- a SNOB.

His loss.

JWilly · #19 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 02:06 PM

About a year ago, at a car show, I was mildly chastised by an owner of an original Cobra. Seemed he did not like replica owners putting cobra badges on their cars (however, my SPF has no cobra badges). Not sure why that put his knickers in a twist, but it did.

Ron61 · #20 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008, 02:20 PM

Up here in Redding every year they have a combination car show and it is called the Ducky Derby because you buy a rubber duck for $2 and they haul them a couple of miles up the river and dump them in. Whoever's duck floats through the gate first wins and normally the 1st place is a new car. Anyway since all the proceeds go for charity I entered my beat up Cobra a few years ago. One woman, I later learned that she was the wife of a guy that I knew slightly, came by and spent 10 minutes calling me names and telling me that they should not allow those plastic piles pf Sh** in a car show. I walked over to see their car and low and behold it was a KIT 32 Ford, fiberglass body and all. All I asked her was if that 350 Chevy engine came in the car and left. I never say anything bad about anyone's car no matter what I may think of it. I just figure they built it to please them and not me.

Ron