Share your cobra road trip stories

[Rotzs99]

Since the board is currently dead right now, figured I could start something up. Always dreamed about taking my cobra through the whole Route 66 tour Chicago - L.A.

Anyone have some cool road trip stories/experiences/photos?

 

[olgreydog7]

Rubbing one out at 100 mph while steering with your knees is quite a trip. Or so I've heard....

 

[bent99]

thats funny right there....

 

[POISND U]

I have to drive the Tail of the Dragon before I die.

 

[Orange Stang 04]

I drove 700 miles to Mustang week with 4.56's. It wasn't that bad. Except for the part on the way home where my starter stopped working.

 

[jakeyfs07]

between here and chicago.... umm... I saw a lot of corn

 

[drivebymashing]

i have driven the dragon it is raw not in my new cobra though in my svt contour it was pretty cool
alot of cops out there though

 

[CobraKalas]

I bought my car in Tuscon and drove it up to phoenix and then back here to Chicago... if thats a road trip (first manual car if that matters!)

 

[99COBRA2881]

Drove the Dragon this past July. Its a great stretch of road, very fun to drive. Watch out for oncoming minivans and bikers that think their half of the road is on your side.

Just took the Cobra on a road trip to Dallas/Fort Worth three weekends ago. Hauled a set of RA1s to a buyer in Decatur, TX and picked up a lexan windshield and fire suppression system for the race car in Flower Mound. Beat a SRT4 that decided to slow down and wait for me after he rolled past doing about 90 mph on I-35 south of Wichita, Ks. Also flipped 50k on that trip, had the car since Sept 03 at 26k miles.

When we were leaving Decatur I merged out into traffic and had a a$$hole in a VW decide it was a better idea to try and rearend me than it was to merge left. I looked in the rearview, saw nothing but silver and a VW emblem closing fast and stomped the pedal, rear tires broke loose for a second or two, then the tires caught traction, the rear end squatted and I put a few car lengths between us. It was frickin close!!

Got a $179 hotel room Saturday night for $119 and came home sunday, stopped at Riverwind Casino on the trip home and lost $32 but the wife and I had a great time and enjoyed the trip.

 

[006]

Best mpg I ever got was when I once drove to San Diego. I got 24+ mpg.

It's never happened again

 

[olgreydog7]

I drove from Annapolis, MD to Charelston, SC to Austin, TX to Groton, CT to Bangor, WA. Then I did Bangor to College Station, TX with the Cobra on a trailer behind my truck, so I've pretty much circled the country with the Cobra. I have done the Tail a couple times, beautiful drive. I did most of the Pacific Coast Hwy, awesome, well worth it. The Colombia River Gourge on the Oregon Washington border is great too. If you take state hwys across Idaho in the dark, you can really fly. I was probably averaging about 100. I did 145, by the speedo anyway, in South Dakota till I saw something on the horizon. I did warp my rotors going through the moutains though Wyoming though. Gave me an excuse to get slotted ones though :thumbs:

 

[VirtualSVT]

Oh man. My cobra has been from FL to Ohio 6 times in 3 years. All those averaging 100 mph to keep good time and gas mileage.

Its been to the Keys a few times. Been to South Carolina a few times.

My car has been all over the midwest and the south. Its never once complained about it.

Best time from FL to Ohio was 13 hours including stops for gas/food. Its a little over 1100 miles one way.

 

[droptopsnake01]

Rubbing one out at 100 mph while steering with your knees is quite a trip. Or so I've heard....

I LOL'D at that.

Pretty good.

 

[droptopsnake01]

I usually went out hunting with my car. I dont like to take long trips in it.

 

[Double"O"]

I drove from Maine to FL with my 01 in 06(when i moved)...i really liked that part with the snow and my drag radials in the Mountains of PA...that was fun. I am pretty sure i was making diamonds in my ass for that wonderful 2 hours

 

[black N/A beast]

ive gone to the upper peninsula in it once and that was about 700 miles, and the last road trip i took to cleveland was fun. well untill we were on our way back driving down the ohio turn pike and i start to heard a mad valve tap and them BOOM, then it turned into a 7 cylinder 31 valve cracked block cobra.......sadly it still isnt driving a year later.

 

[Nazman]

Germany: Darmstatd to Munich
-Ah...the trill of legal unlimited speed driving!

USA: San Antonio, TX to Sierra Vista Arizona
-Ah...the trill of ilegal unlimited speed driving!

Naz

 

[venomnous99]

I have to drive the Tail of the Dragon before I die.

It is nice, especially if you live here. That way you get to run it when the cops aren't out, and very few people to interfere.. If you come to run it, stay away on the weekends, plan a time when you can run early fall or late spring during the week. Summer and weekends is blue elight special for sure. They pull you over if they think you might be fast. And that way you avoid having to pull a biker out from under your car who decided to cross the double yellow and then laid it down, or decided to pass you on the outside on a blind corner, and could not hold and laid it over...

 

[Boostlag]

I drove my 99 cobra from Virginia to Kansas after purchasing it in May.

I then turned around,and changed duty stations,and drove my 99 cobra from Kansas back to Virginia In the beginning of November.

A total of 2600 miles all together.



Cliff notes : - The West virginia turnpike sucks. Its cool for the first 25 minutes because you are taking sharp turns up and down huge mountains at 75-80 mph. Then you realize the turnpike is like an hour long,even going "fast".

- The first time I drove to Kansas with my car,I almost wrecked. The weather was so bad in Kentucky,you couldnt see anything on the road with the rain. Plus 18 wheelers throw water on your car,and try to blow you off the road.

- The first time I did the trip,I made it to KS,from VA in about 25 hours. The second time,going back to VA,I did it in a solid 24.

- The fog in the mountains of VA SUCKS. its really scary to go through at night,especially when its raining. Luckly they have these fog lights mounted into the road path to guide you through the mountains.

- I really didnt see too many nice cars between KS and VA. Just a XLR,a Black 08 Challenger,a 08 CLK 320 pretty much.

- Missouri is probably the smoothest state to get through,besides Kansas itself.

- The roads in Virginia suck. I hope you dont have your car lowered too much. Mine is a decent height,and depending on what Interstate you are on,you will scrape. Passenger or no passenger.

Thats all I can think of for right now

 

[Janstang]

Back when I had the D1SC on the car I took it to Minneapolis for a relatives wedding. My brother brought his 97GT w/4V swap and we did the wedding thing etc. Sunday comes and its time to head back, so we gave my sisters about a 1/2 hour head start and we take off. We've got the radar detectors on, brothers following me, and we are running around 75-80mph(55mph speedlimit). We kept checking with my sisters(via cellphone) and we were within 5 miles of them, and closing fast, with the border about 25 miles away. We come around this big curve with a corn field on the inside, so you can't see whats coming and low and behold its the Minn. state trooper. He finally gets us both pulled over and asks who won. I said, "Sir, we aren't racing, we're trying to catch up to my sister", and he says yeah right. Then he bent down and looked into my car and said "Holy shit", what is that? As he points at my tach. I tell him its my tach and the light tells me when to shift when I'm racing(not that I'm racing). He says uh huh.. Once he finishes giving us our tickets we head out. At the border of SD and Minn. the SD Highway Patrol is waiting for us. Apparently, he decided to radio them to forewarn them. They follow us to Watertown(about 35-45miles). Sunday was Mothers Day, so we pull into a restaurant in Watertown to meet with our mom(who's standing on the sidewalk watching)and the HP pulls in with us and he proceeds to tell me how the Minn. HP had radio'd ahead to let them know we were coming. He said they would be keeping an eye on us throughout the rest of our trip and asked if we needed a ticket. I told him we already got one in Minn. and he said "Oh, well have a nice day then" and left. Meantime, moms on the sidewalk, warming up her leg, so she can kick us both in the ass(I was around 30 at the time). Funnest trip I ever took..