Buy 'em a COBRA!
(No. Not a snake...)This kind doesn't bite. I swear.
Fred Heiler didn't know what to do to encourage his son to get his grades up. He was distracted by things every middle schooler nowadays become easily attracted to. Girls, video games, TV, cars...
Wait. Cars? Hmmm.
His son Tim had a healthy fascination with all things automotive, so when Fred and his wife decided that they needed to do something drastic to get their sons grades to turn around, they did what I (and most other sons) would DREAM their parents would do.They offered him a car. Not just any car mind you..
A Shelby 427 Cobra replica.
"In the early 1960s, Carroll Shelby hoped to build an unbeatable race car by squeezing a large American V-8 into a small British sports car. He started with a demure convertible from the AC Company and added large fender flares to make room for wide wheels and tires. Shelby shoehorned a Ford V-8 into the car, along with the rear suspension and drive gears from a Jaguar XKE. The half-breed car was impressive on the track, so Shelby and AC decided to make street versions.The car’s history has fueled an industry that makes relatively low-cost Cobra replicas. There are now perhaps two dozen companies turning out about 1,200 replicas a year; prices range from about $12,000 for a very basic kit, to $45,000 for a complete, self-assembled fiberglass car like ours, to $110,000 for a ready-to-drive car with an aluminum body. Some are excellent and others mediocre, but most can be screwed together well enough to make it hard to tell the replica from the original. "
Guess what? Tim became an honor student and he and his dad had a great time building it together.
Hmm. I wonder if Fred is willing to adopt.
Oops! Sorry Pop.
~via The NYTimes
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