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06-17-2010, 02:28 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Carrollton,
Tx
Cobra Make, Engine: FFR DAYTONA COUPE 302 COBRA FE STOCK
Posts: 846
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The first time
A. What was the first sports car you ever saw?
B. What was you age?
C. When (YOUR AGE & YEAR) was the first Cobra you ever saw?
D. What (location or event name) was the first sports car race/event you ever attended?
* When was your first ride in a Cobra or a replica?
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FFR Daytona, 2010 Corvette ZR1, '12 F-250 Turbo-diesel,
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest!" Mark Twain
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06-17-2010, 02:55 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: BRADENTON,
FL
Cobra Make, Engine: KIRKHAM 427 S/C, SHELBY 427 ALUM. STROKER
Posts: 1,396
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Now we're talking ancient history!!!
First sports car seen: TR2
Age: 16
First cobra seen; Age : 23, brand new BRG 289 slabside, AND he let me DRIVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!
First sports car event: 1962, Bridgehampton, NY. Stationed at Montauck Pt. AFB. Was corner worker at a couple of races there. A track carved out of the sand dunes! What memories!
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Rebellion becomes Duty." T. Jefferson
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06-17-2010, 04:11 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Carrollton,
Tx
Cobra Make, Engine: FFR DAYTONA COUPE 302 COBRA FE STOCK
Posts: 846
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A. MGTD (Just gor to sit in it)
B. 12 yrs. old. 1955
C. 1963 20 years old, I met Carroll Shelby & Ken Miles
D. Spectator at Lake Garnet Kansas in 1963, wow, what a great weekend. It had a lasting impact. I told myself then, "Someday I'm going to do this!"
1982 in Atlanta, a guy had a Exclaliber Kit car for sale and I took a test ride...what a piece of junk.
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FFR Daytona, 2010 Corvette ZR1, '12 F-250 Turbo-diesel,
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest!" Mark Twain
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06-18-2010, 01:05 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Ft. Worth,
TX
Cobra Make, Engine: LSC427, 427DartSHP
Posts: 154
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LREYBURN
A. What was the first sports car you ever saw?
B. What was you age?
C. When (YOUR AGE & YEAR) was the first Cobra you ever saw?
D. What (location or event name) was the first sports car race/event you ever attended?
* When was your first ride in a Cobra or a replica?
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A. Define "sports car". The first hot rod was my Dad's 54 Ford Coupe with a flat head V8. My uncle had a 63 Corvette.
B. For the Corvette, I was 9.
C. 9, 1963.
D. My Dad worked as a lap keeper at the local roundy-round. I hung around the pits. I was 6.
My first ride was in Dave's car. I helped him work on an axle seal leak and he took me out for spin afterwards. That was in 2009.
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Sometimes things really do go as planned.
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06-18-2010, 01:33 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: New Braunfels, Texas, U.S.A.,
TX
Cobra Make, Engine: Hurricane #1037, 351C, TKO 600
Posts: 1,445
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Back seat in my 66 stang. 
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Gregg H
Former TCC President
"Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory."
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06-19-2010, 08:51 AM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Lavon,
TX
Cobra Make, Engine:
Posts: 3,008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LREYBURN
A. What was the first sports car you ever saw? Not real sure. I had uncles who had muscle cars as far as I can remember, I remember my uncle buying a 240Z but not sure the year (mid-late 70s)
B. What was you age? 5-6 for the 240
C. When (YOUR AGE & YEAR) was the first Cobra you ever saw?14 1987 Saw one in a parade. He let me sit in it at the car show afterward.
D. What (location or event name) was the first sports car race/event you ever attended? Not real sure. I have vague recollections of sitting in the stands at a dirt track. I used to go to the drag races all the time as a teenager.
* When was your first ride in a Cobra or a replica?
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First ride was in Miles' SPF. I helped him rewire a relay system for the pusher fans and he took me for a ride afterward.
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Why do they call it "Common Sense" when it is so rare?
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06-22-2010, 08:45 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: McKinney,
TX
Cobra Make, Engine: The only DAX in town
Posts: 129
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the first time
A&B: growing up in Stuttgart, Germany, right next to the Porsche factory, the first sports car I remember seeing was a 911 back in 1967 at the age of 3.
C: in England on my first longer road trip shortly after receiving my driver's license in 1982 at the age of 18
D: Nitro Olympics Drag Racing at the Hockenheimring in 1989
I drove my first Cobra Replica in 1988 (can't remember the brand), I had to transfer it from a car dealership to an Alpine Car HiFi event we were sponsoring at the shop I was jobbing at.
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Der Spaetzles Cowboy
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06-22-2010, 09:35 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Creedmoor,
TX
Cobra Make, Engine: FFR3542K, 347 C. I., EFI, T-5, Miata Front Sway Bar, 3 Link, Red with White Stripes
Posts: 1,161
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Wow this knocks some rust loose.
A. Ferrari 250 in a showroom, downtown West Palm Beach, Fl.
B. Age 14
C. 1967, 21 yrs. old; a friend from high school had one when I got back from Nam
D. 1968 Sebring 12 Hours, won by Bruce McLaren and Mario Andretti in a Ford GT MKIV
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Steve
Texas Cobra Club-Austin
July 2009 FFCars Picture of the Month
FFR3542K, 347, Holley Sniper EFI, T-5, 4 Wheel Discs, 3-Link, Miata Front Sway Bar, Red with White Stripes
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06-22-2010, 10:25 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: California,
Ca
Cobra Make, Engine: NAF 289 Slabside Early Comp Car with 289 Webers and all the goodies. Cancelling the efforts of several Priuses
Posts: 6,592
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A. What was the first sports car you ever saw?
B. What was you age?
C. When (YOUR AGE & YEAR) was the first Cobra you ever saw?
D. What (location or event name) was the first sports car race/event you ever attended?
* When was your first ride in a Cobra or a replica?
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I was about 9 when a couple moved into the neighborhood with "His & Hers" MG TC's. Not sure what year they were but I remember the big wire wheels.
The first Cobra I remember seeing up close was a Black 289 in spring of 1965 at an Auto X in Fresno Ca. The car was owned by Sam Cardwell who was the caretaker of several Cobras in Fresno and owned an independent British Sports car repair shop.
Laguna Seca 1965, Sophmore in H/S; Cobras and Porshe 904's (or 906?) hauling ass around the old turn 2 & 3, at the time I didn't realize how special it was to be there..
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As you slide down the Banister of Life, may the splinters never be pointing the wrong way 
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06-23-2010, 06:47 AM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Broken Arrow. OK ( South Tulsa), USA,
OK
Cobra Make, Engine: 66 COBRA FE 427 /4SP. (HCS Coupe w/ 408 Stroker and TKO 600 -sold)
Posts: 5,595
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I remember walking past a bug eye sprite around the age of 14 and thinking is that a Cobra! I later went into a show room with my dad and they had a blue one on the floor. I have never been the same since. Oh yea, in the 50's my grandfather had a MD-TD with wire wheels and a pull up top. I think it was green?
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