...probably the Patera of Dr.Jodar, Bruce Jodar's father, sitting there.
Bruce Jodar was the original organizer of the original Cobra Club which was independent of the Shelby Owner's Association and later was absorbed into the the original SAAC, or Shelby American Automibile Club, organized by Rick Kopec and Ken Eber.
I went to a Cobra Club meeting in Sparta, NJ, in '75 where he came in from MI, in the car.
He was wearing a Dr.'s gown with a name tag of Jodar on it.
The story was that he made the drive in 8 hours from Grosse Point Shores, MI. That is a subburb of Detroit.
Now I can tell you that I have made that drive straight across Rt.80 several times and the best that I could do was 16 hours.
We figure he AVERAGED something like 100 to 110...AVERAGED, to do it in that time.
The significance of the doctors identity was Bruce was going to say he was his father, who was a heart surgeon as I remember, and he was on an emergency call, if he was pulled over for speeding.
This was before photo radar was put in on 80 in Ohio, and the Police were issued an edict of not to pursue over 85mph...and the CANNONBALL WAS REAL, not a pipe dream.
Wince and frown all you want to. Sometimes the background stories on this stuff are more entertaining then the newspaper clipping ever was.
The stories can be so stupid that you just can't make this stuff up?
