2002

The Great driveTrain Robbery
  

 

 

It all began when we asked Fiber Jet's Tim Figuhr to raise his Cobra's bonnet so we could check out his now-legendary 'Thunder-Clatter' engine.

So I raised the hood on Tim's 'menace of the motorways,' only to discover that someone had pinched his powerplant, inexplicably replacing it with what appeared to be a curiously misshapen variant of a Jerry Can.

'Not to worry,' proclaimed Tim, as he showed me his spare engine in the boot.

Bloke comes prepared.

Tim calls it his 'Wolfsburg Windsor.'

Tim (and lovely Frau Nettie) acknowledged that they've taken some FlaK (an acronym taken from the German "Flugzeug ab Kanone"... anti-aircraft cannon... for you Jeopardy wannabees) regarding his variant rendering of the Cobra racing stripes... which Tim derisively calls 'Terlingua graffiti.' He vows to abandon the K-mart 'Budget Shopper' spray cans in the future, although he won't yield in his determination to run the stripe over the engine. And over the taillights. Sigh.

Tim insists he was Baron Manfred von Richthofen's wingman in the famed 'Flying Circus' during The Great War. Rumour has it he got shot down and kilt.

There was one persistent annoyance that we encountered. You see, um, shuffle shuffle... sheesh... each time you open a door or deck, um, it falls off. Those duct-tape hinges just don't measure up to the task at hand. Tim scoffs at any critical comments, reassuring us with "Hell, this represents my passion for authenticity... that particular feature was standard on Carroll's original Cobras!"

This was all in fun, folks.

Check out Fiber Jet's lineup of dune buggies on KitCar!

Oh! Make sure you ask Tim about the bantam rooster he was carrying around at the show.

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THREE PAGES OF KNOTT'S 2002 COVERAGE:

take me to Knott's 2002 main show/concours page

take me to Knott's 2002 "Cobras, Cobras, more Cobras, GT40s" page

take me to Knott's 2002: "The Great driveTrain Robbery"

take me to the A.H.A.'s club page!

  

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