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To: who cares? who wrote (684)	8/24/2000 12:34:18 AM
From: SI Bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5790

Which leads me to another peeve of mine. And this one really irks me. As everyone knows, my wife is a very indulgent sort, and I'd set my heart on getting one of the new 2000 Cobra R's. Definitely not cheap, but considering how long I'd keep it, it wouldn't be too bad. Well, it took a while to find a dealer who could tell me anything about it (this was before it had hit production) and when I finally did, I was told that all 300 of the production run had already been sold before a single one had been built. Bummer, to be sure. But that's not the part that ticks me off. I'm seeing LOTS of ads for these things for prices ranging from $68k to $75k. With no miles. I still want one of them, and it would've been registered but only gotten used on the track. But I'm seriously bummed that so many of these cars ended up in the hands of people who didn't want them. They just wanted to pimp them for a few bucks. And I refuse to reward them with an easy 8 to 15k for having done so. I really should write to the Mustang magazines about it, because I think that's a problem. Not enough of those cars are going to see the light of day. Collectors will just trade them. I'd like to see Ford require that people either have an SCCA license to buy these (they did with the previous one) or sign a contract to not sell the car for a year. Or something. Anything that'll let some of these cars end up in the hands of people like me who'll really use them the way Ford intended.