ITD, my last line was as much a joke as anything else. I’m not soliciting here to sell it.
Thanks for all the kind words and sympathy. It’s a complicated situation. I *could *hold onto the car - subject to buying out half ownership - but all good sense tilts against it.
It’s an utterly impractical car in all ways - barely useful as a back-up driver because it doesn’t do rain, cold or being left in parking lots. It’s expensive to insure even as just a hobby driver, under very limited mileage, all “practical” use essentially forbidden. It has to be stored indoors, and securely, which might be a problem in my new location - I can’t necessarily afford a second or third garage space in a safe neighborhood (for a while). I’d also have to ship it closed-carrier to Denver, and that’s $1500 I have better uses for.
I’ve owned it for seven years, and got it just this -><- much late in life that I never did track it or drive it the way I always intended. So it’s time to acknowledge that I’m just another old fart with his high school dream car and put the actual car back into dreams.
Just time to streamline my life in many ways. This is one of them.
I do have another car that’s *almost *as good and far more practical - a 1968 Mustang coupe that I lavished resto money on and has been waiting for final reassembly for several years. That one I will keep - my parents bought it new off the showroom floor - and will get back on the road soon-ish. It’s almost as potent as the Cobra, with a curb weight around 2600 pounds and a 400+HP smallblock (and upgraded brakes and suspension, and more) - it looks almost entirely original, but is only a bit behind its stablemate in capabilities. Cheaper to insure, and can be driven in moderate weather and left parked in more places. (Security system? You bet yer ass. I used to design them, and wrote the book on how to, long ago.)
OTOH… I haven’t settled all other assets yet, and the margin value of the Cobra could come up to where keeping it a little longer is worth transport and all the other hassles, and it is damned cheap to keep running (NAPA has almost every part for it, unlike the Countach I once considered swapping it for.)
News as it happens. Still a lot to work through before I am cut loose and Denver-bound.
