[bubba353z]

http://msn.foxsports.com/motor/story/Carro...-age-89-051112/

Definitely a sad day and the end of an era.......

[trackbird]

Was he doing anything that Mario Andretti isn't doing? Watching the Darlington race, I just saw Mario Andretti for GoDaddy.com. Being 30 years old, I honestly don't remember Mario Andretti doing anything other than commercials for Magnaflow and making an occasional appearance on Home Improvement. I don't blame him though, talk about income!

Mario was the real deal, a true racer and legend. I am just old enough to remember when he was racing. Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, he hasn't been to the moon lately...but he's still Neil Armstrong. Mario has been retired for a while now, but he's still Mario. Hero's are hero's for a reason, even if you missed them in their prime...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Andretti

Say all you want (and this forum is not the place for this thread for sure!, bunch of Ford haters...) but this man did go down in the history books. As a proud owner of the iconic Shelby 427sc Cobra I can say that his cars are legendary....

This forum isn't full of Ford haters. I think you have us confused with some of the other forums on the web. There are more than a few Mustangs here and we just swapped a 331 stroker into a 5.0 notchback at my house in the last year. I grew up in a Ford family...

And the 427 Cobra has been one of my favorite cars as long as I can remember. There's a 20x30" picture of a yellow Cobra over my desk at home. It's a photo I took at a car show years ago and several friends have asked for prints of that photo and there are a few of them on friends walls too.