Beachcomber,
It's odd that both you and Ludwig live so close to Hampton in Arden. Mom was quite interested when I told her about it. Started her reminiscing about living there.
I lived in Florida in the 1980's and worked in a fibreglass shop were I was in charge of making cobra bodies that were sent to Everett Morrison a well known kit car maker. A fun job.
Enjoying the bikes and cars you are posting.
Steve.
Whooooaaa - there's ANOTHER spooky coincidence, I have spent most of my business life making
COBRA, Jaguar and Porsche replicas !!
I retired in 2000 selling my moulds and jigs to a guy that was my agent in Germany. Even though I had my own business - I used to do a lot of consultancy work for Realm Engineering Ltd [
www.realmengineering.com. ] and liased with Carroll Shelby to finalise his personal endorsement of the RAM Cobra - the ONLY replica to have received Shelby's personal endorsement outside the US [ and only 1 there I think ]. I became friends with Shelby and after 5 years or so I was appointed the European Liaison Officer for his "European Transplant Trust" - set up to help underprivileged and kids to have organ transplants.
Since my retirement [ ha,ha ] I still carry out engineering design consultancy work for both the German guy and Realm. Any more coincidences from half way round the World ??
Here [ left ] shown with Carroll and the car we provided him with to use during the Innes Ireland memorial Rally [ NEC - Silverstone ]. He also used the car at Le Mans for his 35th. Anniversary celebrations doing several laps before the start of the race - with me trying to keep up in one of our RACE Cobras with a French TV cameraman aboard.