Once, when they were walking in Salt Lake City, they saw a Shelby Cobra racing car for the first time. “Larry was saying, ‘Someday, I’m going to have one of those.’ And I’m thinking, ‘Yeah, right.’ That was way beyond our capacity,” Gail Miller said Thursday.
Success in the car industry eventually allowed Larry Miller to buy a Cobra. “The first one we bought," she said, "we drove home from California, through a snow storm, with no top on and no windshield wipers, and me reaching over trying to keep the window clean so he could see where he was going.