Bear rips top off Shelby Cobra to get box of Fig Newtons

[mahatmakanejeeves]

I can relate. Those things are delicious.

Fig Newtons, I mean. I couldn't tell you about bears.

Cue the Farmers Insurance jingle.

The Associated Press Retweeted:

A hungry bear ripped the top of a nearly $1M classic Shelby Cobra to snag a box of Fig Newtons shoved behind the seat during a road trip through Alaska. Story: http://apne.ws/kRJqXwW

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Bear tears through classic Shelby Cobra on Alaska road trip
By RACHEL D’ORO
Yesterday

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A North Carolina man plans to leave the dents in his rare vintage car for a while to relish the Alaska vacation story behind it. It’s not every day that a pricey collector’s treasure is damaged by a bear breaking into it to steal cookies.

“It’s bar room talk,” Tom Cotter of Davidson, North Carolina, said Monday shortly before he was scheduled to fly home from Anchorage after he toured the state for two weeks in his red 1965 289 Shelby Cobra with several other car collectors.

Cotter’s car sustained major rips to the vinyl roof and dents on the body when the bear broke into it last week at Alyeska Ski Resort, 38 miles (61 kilometers) south of Anchorage. He learned about the break-in when one of his friends texted him a photo of the damaged car the morning it was discovered.

No words were necessary for Cotter, who rushed out to assess the damages. ... “This car will forever be known as the bear Cobra,” said Cotter, 64, an author who writes about finding rare vintage cars. He also has a YouTube channel called The Barn Find Hunter.....

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