*AN ALL NEW
TOP TEN CARS OF ALL TIME, OR  
SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD WHICH EVER COMES FIRST )

NOTE: Drivel update,  Last list was as of 25 Apr 06.  Things have changed quite a bit between 10 and 2  I am working on it now (as I work on things), BUT Numero Uno will never change because....well because it will never change.

1.    COBRA 427 (At the Church of Torque and Recoil, this is the Supreme Being).  A couple of years ago John Ross gave me a ride in his 427Cobra.  Changed everything for me.  The quickest turning point ever.  Retina bending acceleration.  Braking that makes an old man think of Depends as racewear.  I saw Elvis twice in twenty minuets.  Deep brown engine sound with seismic power sufficient to set off car alarms and activate motion sensor lights in a three block radius. (If you had a Cobra 427 wouldn't it be delicious fun to share a stoplight and a block long cruise with one of those folks who think bass resonance is cool and manly).  This is zoot wrought in steel, exotic alloys, and fiberglass.  It is very very quick art.  It is truth, justice and the American way.  It is the ultimate reality show.  I learned the difference between a real cobra and the un-real.  One cannot see a real Cobra.  If you see a Cobra on the road or in a parking lot it is not real as real ones are not for mortals to see.   The real one are inside somewhere.  John's un-real Cobra was, well.....unreal in the most positive sense.  650 ponies are hard to fake.

Note:  TONIGHT, (18 Aug 2006) at the McDonald's on Abram in Arlington I saw my second Shelby American Cobra. (Thanks for bringing it Rich).  I get dog brained.  (you remember the Larson cartoon where he illustrates what goes on in a dogs brain when we talk to them.    Dogs hear their name.  "Blah, blah, blah blah, Ginger. Blah, blah, blah blah, Ginger. Blah, blah, blah blah, Ginger.  When I am dog brained in the presence of  a Cobra  I am hearing "Blah, blah, blah blah, COBRA. Blah, blah, blah blah, COBRA.  Blah, blah, blah blah, COBRA. "but that is the way it is with these things.  I didn't grasp the significance of Shelby American until tonight.  If I was inadvertently offensive my excuse is that I was snake addled.  NOW I understand there is another dimension to Cobra-ness.  Real, Not Real, and Original (Which used to be what I called Real. 

AS I RE-READ THIS  I SEE CLEARLY THAT THIS IS NOT A TRUE TOP TEN LIST.  THIS IS THE WHEN I WIN THE LOTTERY SHOPPING LIST.
KNOWING HOW I FEEL ABOUT CARS MY WIFE HAS SUGGESTED A POST-NUP SO THAT WHEN WE WIN THE LOTTERY, WE SPLIT IT RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE, THEN WE SPLIT MY HALF RIGHT DOWN IT'S MIDDLE.  WHICH IS NOT BAD BECAUSE I CAN COVER THIS LIST WITH.......ROUGHLY, $310 K  IF I LEAVE OFF THE SNAKE.  $350 WITH A RUBBER SNAKE, WHICH WOULD BE JUST AS GOOD BECAUSE I WOULD PROBABLY NOT WANT TO EXPOSE MY SNAKE IF IT WAS THE REAL DEAL.

(YOUR THE ONE WITH A DIRTY MIND.)

THE NUMBER OF TOP TEN CARS OWNED AND OPERATED BY ARON JOHNSTON. . . . . .0 

Ok,  I am no longer Mustang Proof. (Spending more than 10 years in Kuwait with cure a person of Mustangs, Corvettes, and Chevrolet Caprices.)  FOMOCO Bill, hit one out of the park with the 05 Mustang, and hit one off the planet with the GT.  I have the GT commercial and I only watch it when I am very happy, or very sad, or somewhere in between.

If you have something to say, step up and put in your 2 cents worth. (if you are Canadian that will be 3.06352 cents so as to keep the pot right) write me theoldcartooner@yahoo.com and I will make you famous in places almost as big as Rockeyford, Alberta, which is not the end of the earth, but you can see it from there. 

OK you are on.  Write me.  theoldcartooner@yahoo.com 
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