[Jims5543]

I had developed a friendship with a guy that owns a Robin Egg colored one from Ft. Lauderdale. The friendship blossomed from a friendly rivalry at my local SCCA AX. He came up there to run many years ago and I normally get bumped into their class from BP (back when there was a BP its now XP) I did not mind running in AP and actually enjoyed the challenge trying to beat these monsters with my little RX7.

Anyway, I beat him the 1st time he came out and he made some mean comments to me about my trailering my car and he drove his up with a tire trailer. I commented back that I had a kid in a Kart too and this was the only way to get everything there. If my kid does not go I pack the tires in the car and drive it as well.

We swapped TTOD's and class wins many times over the years there, but, if we went to a more wide open event, he cleaned my clock. He was a much better driver at high speed than I was, more concisely, he was insane and had no fear.

He took his Cobra to the Bay Bottom Crawl (google it) and on his 2nd practice run on Saturday he shattered the record for a fendered car. On Sunday he almost got the coveted TTOD trophy but could not beat one of the Formula Fords that were running. The ford had him by about 1 second.

It is a rare day when a fendered car wins there overall and this guy came the closest in years. The killer was his car has a 302 in it, nothing special other than it is a HP 302. No blowers, turbo,s etc... He could just drive the wheels off of it.