Las Vegas - Hoover Dam - Shelby Cobra?

teflon6string · May 8, 2016

Spent 3 days in Vegas several years ago and got my fill. Not a gambler, just a gawker, I actually remember the museums best. Now I'm going back for a friend's birthday and I'm cool with the trip. My GF likes to gamble a little, there'll 3-4 couples I actually like and we party well together.

So!
I've always said "If I ever go back there, I'm renting a Shelby Cobra [replica] and taking a high speed blast out to Hoover dam."

With the opportunity looming close, I'm curious and thinking about logistics. Has anyone here ever done it? I know it's obscenely expensive, and I'm prepared for that.

Good with speed - I ride fast motorcycles and I've driven muscle/performance cars. I think the Cobra with open side pipes and that ridiculous power/weight/noise ratio would be a hoot for a day - even at less than wide open throttle (I've no desire to see if the rollbar works).

What would bum me out is sitting in a traffic jam rumbling forward, one car-length at a time, along with 1000's of other tourists all heading for the same damn dam. Is this a do-able mission in that toy? Maybe some other destination would be better for blowing the wax out of my ears?

Open to ideas and suggestions. Thanks in advance.

etrain16 · May 8, 2016

I've made that drive in a nice rented Mustang. We got a few chances to open it up along the way. But do be prepared for stop and go traffic once you get near the dam. It was a fun trip for us, I wouldn't mind doing it again sometime.

Mark W. · May 9, 2016

If your phone has traffic in the map section you could actually look at what the traffic is like.

MarkAd · May 9, 2016

I-15 is wide open and flat. Go east and burn the carbon out of that overpriced go-cart.

Caveman Jim · May 9, 2016

Love the car but the location for that monster deserves the race track not tourist attractions.... just sayin.....

clearconscience · May 9, 2016

God I love those cobras. Always wanted one. I told my wife if we ever won the lotto I'm buying one.

Had a customer that bought on in the late sixties almost new for a few thousand.
Sold it 10 years later for $40k.
Then bought it back for $80k, then sold it again. The guy he sold it to ended up selling it at auction in 2009 for something like $400k.

His brother owns 2 worth over a million bucks.

I'd stick with the kit car.