Old Cars Weekly

My First Cobra Bite

s much as we may want to try in this day and age, it’s impossible to live in a vacuum. Until reading Brian Earnest’s 1979 Ford Mustang Cobra article in this issue, I firmly believed that I became obsessed with cars almost entirely on my own. Sure, when I was born and shortly thereafter, my parents drove what might now be considered interesting

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