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12-05-2011, 05:29 AM
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Cobra Make, Engine: FRR MKIII 408w
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11 luxury sports cars wrecked in expensive pileup
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12-05-2011, 05:48 AM
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Insurance adjuster's nightmare "Ouch"
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12-05-2011, 06:30 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Dadeville,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Sold my EM.
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I was once on a Cobra group outing that could have just as easily turned out the same way (except for the total price tag). There's something about being in a group of people doing stupid stuff that makes it easier for each individual to do stupid stuff too.
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Cheetah tribute completed 2021 (TommysCars.Weebly.com)
Previously owned EM Cobra
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor
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12-05-2011, 08:50 AM
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Cobra Make, Engine: 86 Everett Morrison 90" WB. 428 FE
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Kyle Busch was in that pack. He had enough of being cut down on.
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12-05-2011, 11:40 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Scotts Valley,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA 289 FIA #2108
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Pile-up at 90 mph, and they walk away with minor cuts and bruises? Says a lot about Ferrari safety design...
DD
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"You're kidding, right?"
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12-05-2011, 12:34 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: saratoga,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham #185, Shelby Alloy 482; sold
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There was a Prius in that mess.
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12-05-2011, 01:04 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: KMP 427 S/C, Twin Paxton 511 FE
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There was a Prius in that mess.
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So it's not all bad. 
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12-05-2011, 03:25 PM
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Location: Carpentersville,IL & Maricopa,,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ACE, 351W, 3550 Tremec, Raging(?) Red W/ White Stripe.
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12-08-2011, 09:13 PM
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Location: Plano,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance, 408 525HP/490TQ, Mass Flow EFI
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if they'd just learned to drive on the right side of the road.
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12-08-2011, 10:13 PM
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if they'd just learned to drive on the right side of the road.
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Seven hundred years ago, everybody used the English system. In the Middle Ages you kept to the left for the simple reason that you never knew who you'd meet on the road in those days; you wanted to make sure that a stranger passed on the right so you could go for your sword in case he proved unfriendly.  
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SPEED WAS HIGH - WEATHER WAS NOT - TIRES WERE WET - X MARKS THE SPOT
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12-13-2011, 09:04 PM
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to: Redsnake351
Not too many people know that.. In fact, you're the only person that I have ever run into that knew.. That's why I used the word "learned" - the thought being over 700 yrs that something new might be learned.
By chance do you know the history behind the Military salute?
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12-13-2011, 11:37 PM
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Not too many people know that.. In fact, you're the only person that I have ever run into that knew.. That's why I used the word "learned" - the thought being over 700 yrs that something new might be learned.
By chance do you know the history behind the Military salute?
Francis
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Only after researching it after you asked:
U.S. Military Salutes
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SPEED WAS HIGH - WEATHER WAS NOT - TIRES WERE WET - X MARKS THE SPOT
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12-19-2011, 05:49 PM
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The most common reference is noted in the article. As you know during the Ages, Jousting was a "sport". the participants dressed in Armor covering their entire body including their heads. As such, the participants would lift up the "visor" with their hands/finger tips and make eye contact with their opponent. that was a sign of acknowledgemet and respect. Once acknowledged they let go, and the visor would drop to protect their eyes. thereafter the joust begins.
I had heard and was told a military history professor that the reference to the Romans and approaching them showing the hands, is the origin of the "hands up" when you are about to surrender or be searched.
The tipping of the hat is akin to the head nod, acknowledging a passer by.
Now what about the comtempory "fist bump" - no clue
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