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Does one wave to cobra drivers when in a 7?
02GF74 - 29/1/08 at 12:31 PM

as it says above.


Mr Whippy - 29/1/08 at 12:33 PM

is that way goodbye as your pass them?


smart51 - 29/1/08 at 12:34 PM

Anyone in a kit, a car that looks like a kit or any open top car not mass produced in the last 40 years. I'm quite friendly really.


Gezza - 29/1/08 at 12:37 PM

Of course you do, tehn blow them away


David Jenkins - 29/1/08 at 12:42 PM

I'll wave to anybody... shan't say WHAT I wave though...


ditchlewis - 29/1/08 at 12:54 PM

^^^^^^^^

they always bring a smile to my face and i'm much more friendly when i'm in a 7

it's just in a tin top that i'm an A###

ditch


Jon Ison - 29/1/08 at 01:00 PM

usualy wave as I pass them........


RazMan - 29/1/08 at 01:19 PM

I always wave at anything remotely looking like a kit but I notice that I get more waves from Aston Martins round my way .......... strange but true

I reckon all the Seven drivers don't think my car is a kit (but I still keep waving)


Ivan - 29/1/08 at 01:56 PM

I wave to any sports car when out in my Cobra. After all the King should acknowledge the peasants

In SA you might see one 7 every two years if you are lucky so can't remember if they waved back

Of course when stopped at a robot the Porsche or other supercar drivers very pointedly look the other way in case you might challenge them so they never wave back.

[Edited on 29/1/08 by Ivan]


wilkingj - 29/1/08 at 01:57 PM

I'll always wave... I wont lower myself not to.

They may be rich, and snobish. I'm neither, and prefer to be that way.

I've even had a Porsche driver in a garage walk over and chat to me.

If they are snobbish, then you just calmly tell them it only does 0-60 in under 5 seconds, and you are working on improvements. That's usually enough to shut them up.

There arent many cars that will out run a well sorted 7 in the 0-60 dash.


ditchlewis - 29/1/08 at 02:05 PM

Razman

your car most definatley does not look like a kit car. saw you once pulling on to the A12 at kelvedon south and i was most impressed.

apart from those ultimate of speed machines, the white van, i get nothing but smiles from other drivers and i do wave back.

although it could just be that i look a t##t in a bike helmet, coat and gloves on a cold winters day

i just long for any dry day when i can take the car out.

ditch


speedyxjs - 29/1/08 at 02:27 PM

I always acnowledge kit car drivers. They must think im a bit wierd as im normally driving a freezer van or my mums vauxhaull astra estate


02GF74 - 29/1/08 at 02:36 PM

quote:
Originally posted by ditchlewis

apart from those ultimate of speed machines, the white van, i get nothing but smiles from other drivers and i do wave back.




that is what got me too .... I was turning right out of petrol station and trafffic on both side of the road stopped and parted for me.


bigrich - 29/1/08 at 04:12 PM

a thumbs up or a little wave never hurt anyone, and wether its a cobra or a seven were all the same, by not haveing a production car,were all slightly rebelious and non conformist

Rich


donut - 29/1/08 at 04:41 PM

quote:

They may be rich, and snobish

They certainly are not snobish! and i now include myself in that plus i'm certainly not rich. The Cobra owners i have met so far are as nice, helpful and friendly as you 7 owners.

So if you see me in my Cobra in about 6 years time.......give me a wave!!

[Edited on 29/1/08 by donut]


robinj66 - 29/1/08 at 06:17 PM

I'm with Donut - definitely not rich (spent a lot of it building the Cobra) and I hope I'm not snobbish. I like to wave to all kit cars


Marlon - 29/1/08 at 07:40 PM

I'll always wave 2 a cob driver or anything else really when i'm in the indy, I'm quite nice like that.


roadrunner - 29/1/08 at 07:46 PM

quote:

Anyone in a kit, a car that looks like a kit or any open top car not mass produced in the last 40 years. I'm quite friendly really.


I'm the same, and i generally get a nice wave back. Now if i could afford a big muscle Cobra, which i cant, i would still rather have a seven anyday.


Chazzy - 30/1/08 at 10:25 PM

definitley, they can carry far larger toolkits than we can and you never know....

I genrally acknowledge anyone who has a good look, from porkers to bikers and especially in the winter anyone who looks like the michelin man in an open top (the sympathy wave!)

chas