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The SHELBY AMERICAN
Winter 2016 26
So there you are, driving along and
minding your own business and you
start to pass an unobtrusive white
van, when – WHOA! – you’re looking
at a cobra. Not the automotive type,
but it’s the name that matters. This
snake represents the Cobra Concrete
Cutting Services. It was spotted by
Nick Guisto of Hinsdale, Illinois. We
have to say that the current era of al-
most everyone carrying cell phone
cameras is responsible for a noticeable
uptick of Eagle Eye sightings. In the
“old days” not many members had a
camera with them at all times and
while they might have spotted some-
thing like this, they would not have
been able to capture it and share it by
immediately emailing it to us.
“
A parade of classic cars on display in Paris’s Grand Palais before this year’s
Tour Auto Optic 2000 race”
is how this picture was captioned in the September
2015 issue of
Conde Nast Traveler
. Picking out the Cobra in this crowd of sports
cars is a feat that defines an eagle-eye. You might think that having spotted
this gem, Greg Melnyk of Arroyo Grande, California would have closed the
magazine and moved on. After all, what are the chances of seeing another
Cobra in the same travel magazine? But you never can tell. An article on the
Paris To Barritz Rally featured a picture of what we’re guessing was the same
Cobra. It must have been a slow day because Melnyk continued reading the
magazine and discovered a mention of a “
cherry red Cobra
” in an article about
a Los Alamos, California winery tour.
1967 Shelby owners will be drooling
down the front of their shirts when
they see Craig Shefferly’s version of an
Adirondack deck chair. As a resident of
White Lake, Michigan, Shefferly’s
“home track” is Road America so it’s
no coincidence that the background on
the chair shows an R-A corner with
appropriate signage. As the owner of
‘67 GT500 #887, a dark blue car, it’s no
coincidence that the chair is a reflec-
tion of his car.