Those GT350's thrill me, love the sound. My wife and I enjoy them at SAAC events when the 289's scream by us at 8,000 rpm during the vintage racing.
Do I open up my car on a public road...sometimes. When there's no approaching traffic and any following traffic is far behind me. I'll typically take out my roadster for a 25-40 mile drive. Most of the time I'm lucky to find enough road with almost zero traffic that I can get through 2 to 3 gears at 7,000 rpm, once and occasionally twice during that drive.
But here's my take on the video. Right foot to the floor and slamming gears while passing traffic in the adjacent lane is the wrong place and time. It's dangerous and wholly inconsiderate.
"Inconsiderate and dangerous".
About 1972, I got my first ride in a Cobra. It was Lee Weinstein's 289 and it was a Cobra Club meet at Mark Bucheim's place in Sparta, NJ.
I wasn't driving, I was a passenger. There were six Cobras in all "out for a cruise". We were on Rt15, and it was a divided, six lane roadway with cross streets and red lights.
Well. There was this one red light all stopped for. Three Cobras in the left lane. Three in the right. Two regular folks in the center.
When the light changed it was like this video, only with six Cobras. 5 289's. One 427. Now interesting how EVERYTHING in the car vibrates to the extent that it takes a few moments to focus, but one thing that I remember was how the old guy in the center lane, started screaming and shaking his fists at the MF's who had just turned him and his car into a spinning top.
Of course I don't condone that type of behavior but remember I was just a passenger ducking the flying rubber from the cars in front of us. Amazing how quickly they reach 100? A good thing that we didn't have to test the brakes like in the 0 to 100 to 0 test?
I'm not sure if it was that day, the first time I hit 7,200 in second gear but it was the first time I tested my brakes when a hay truck came rolling out in front of me to see what was going on with the Cobras in front of me.
I have T/A brakes on the car now but they can't stop Gomer Pyle from pulling in front of you in a hay truck?
Yea, "dangerous and inconsiderate". Sure was, but then again Cobra fever is infectious and like Milaria in the sense that you think that you are over it and out of nowhere you get a vicious attack?
It's also a VERY BAD IDEA to post a video of you and your car breaking the law on a public road for all to see. That's evidence and gonna' cost you a little. Here, they WILL confiscate the car. Probably your license too? Seems like everyone has a smart phone to video you in the act too? Big Brother is watching.