http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNLpZdDz-1k

 

wow..... thats depressing.

 

Stupid..just stupid..nice car wrecked by a freaking rookie. I'd divorce her so bloody fast

 

Unfortunately antics like this makes getting insurance for a genuine 1960s Cobra or 427 Cobra tougher to get, more expensive to buy, and more restrictive when you do get it.

 

At least it wasn't a real one. Notice the fiberglass front end. AC Cobras were Aluminum.

 

I have original Cobras and getting / maintaining insurance these days is no fun. It isn't an old aluminum car body skin issue, it is the bash'm crash'm reckless driving tickets antics of some of the imitation car owners / drivers. I have seen published estimates that the dozens of companies and individuals that have produced some type look-a-like car since circa 1974 have built something like 50,000+ cars. Compare that to the official current SAAC recognized total of 998 cars between the first prototype Cobra CSX2000 in 1962 and the last 289 Sports circa 1971. Since the actions of the many out weigh the needs of the few it is the tens of thousands of look-a-like cars being driven and in some cases crashed that determines how the insurance companies deal will all cars in the class regardless of who built them when.

I have been insured with one company since I was 14 in 1968 (motorcycle) and never made a claim for something I did and yet they will not accept anymore polices on anything that even looks like a Cobra or 427 Cobra. Never mind I have insured several Boss 302s, a Boss 429, several Shelbys between 1965 and 1969, and a 1964 Cobra since 1983. Never mind my last traffic ticket as for failing to stop completely at a stop sign in circa 1969. My record doesn't count. The records of those driving look-a-like cars does.

 

S.b.

 

that stinks, but its still just a car, something worse could have happened.

i'd lose any car over my wife any day

 

ouch....

 

Apparently he wasnt to upset, it must've happened before.

 

Well the guy was an idiot to let her drive it because in the video you can hear him say, "I knew it!"


Welcome to forums Dan. How can you have 2 posts and it says 0?

 

I do not know. I had some posts on the old forum before it crashed.

There were several people that seemed to have disappeared after the old system died or whatever.

There were old threads detailing a lot of the history of hot rod Fords and especially Mustangs that seemed to have been left behind too.

Huntsville and Brindley (spelling) mountain were Ford oaisis in this Chevyland back in the day. Imagine at least 8 Cobras and 3 427 Cobras, a GT40, a GT350R, and a variety of Shelby and Boss Mustangs in nearly ever part of Huntsville. (Huntsville's population back then was just a fraction of what it is now. Everything west of Jordan Lane was for practical purposes farm land.) Imagine a whole new car transporter loaded with brand new Grabber colored Boss 302s on Woody Anderson's lot and a loads of Z/28s and top of the line Corvettes on the Chevy lot accross the corner (I must admit I had to go look at the new L-88 Corvette in the show room circa late 1969). Even one of the two ever known air conditioned Boss 302s special ordered was sold new at Woody Andersons (I think its color was called ButterNut or Ginger or something to describe the light golden brown color. It had a white interior with every RPO plus a special order of AC that was purchased for a young girl who promptly totalled it. I got to sit in it prior to delivery to the first owner. In fact I got to sit in many of the 1969 and 1970 Boss and 428SCJ Mustang cars Woody's had at least once. The strangest one was a C. Coral 1969 Boss 302 with a BLUE interior that was purchased new just to make a race car out of. It didn't even have a radio if memory serves me correctly.)

 

hey... in this case the wife OWNS the cobra! lol But yea some women can be a bit..er dumb.

 

Well, someone should have taught her how to drive. It sounded like she had he foot on the go pedal all the way to the crash site. Must have been in a hurry to get there.
Why she was even hammering it there is anyones guess.

 

i had just asked recently if anyone had spoken to you lately .. it would be too much of a chore to retell all the stories some of us told on HSC forum .. glad to see you still around..

 

OUCH !
What brand of "kit" is that ? I was checking out mirror placement for the one we are working on...

 

Superformance.

 

Thanks Mike. Were your mirrors mounted back as far as those so that you could see them without looking through the windshield ?
Forgive me for "highjacking" your post or wandering of topic. I hate it when people do that and now I have. Oops !

 

Here's mine:

 

^ drooool but NEVER try to follow one lol we made that mistake a few years ago on a shoals cruisers cruise to tupelo ...we wre driving the 66 coupe and the guy in front of us his tail lights are just waaay to small and dont light up well.. even worse it started snowing..lol