Mark Lamaskin selling his Griggs Terminator

Our faithful reporter, Greg Cassidy, who covers the SVT Performance forums for this publication, has reported that Mark Lamaskin, owner of Performance Autosport in Richmond, VA is selling his personal 2003 Cobra.

I remember that car - it's beautiful. It's a shame that such a beautiful car is up for sale, although not overly surprising in some respects. They were building that car at the same time they were working on mine... in fact, the build on my car delayed them on getting that one done, so Don had to pull a late night thrash the night before last year's Mountaineer Madness event. It has an identical roll bar to the one in my car, which I like very much.

Although I haven't ridden in it (yet), with the Griggs SLA front suspension and full frame kit (mine only has the lower subframes, not the additional through the floor portion part), I am not surprised that thing corners like it's on rails. I would really love to put the SLA front suspension on my car so I would have front grip to match the rear grip. Perhaps next year. I love the fact that he buried the independent rear in favor of a stick axle - torque arm, panhard bar and all.

I assume that Performance Autosport is looking at the market for upgrading the S197 chassis cars that people are buying - especially the GT500s. Let's face it, people who are able to fork out the cash for a GT500 probably have the cash to pay Performance Autosport to upgrade the suspension so that the car has handling to match the horsepower. So apparently Mark is building a S197 chassis car to demonstrate the new Griggs S197 suspension.

Makes sense to me. I can't wait to go for a ride in the new beast!!!