Keen On Cobras: Jazz Owner to Open Motorsports Park

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The man speaks, and passion oozes. Words purr, a certain poetry to the flow. No sputter, not a piston out of whack.

It is 6 a.m. on a summer Saturday, and Larry H. Miller is bound to be at the wheel. The canyons are his roadway, and with each passing mile his sense of satisfaction multiplies.

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Keen On Cobras: Jazz Owner to Open Motorsports Park

The ride is a far cry from Miller's very first, a two-tone medium metallic green 1952 Olds with a light-lime and white hardtop that cost him just $20 but had some sort of pesky electrical problem he never could fix.

Rather, Miller is driving one in his multimillion-dollar stable of high-performance and historically significant Cobras -- and he is enjoying it so much that even wife Gail has had to interrogate him on the attraction of the affair.

"The answer I gave her: 'I deal so much with people, and I have high expectations, whether it's basketball players or employees. And I have a lot of really good ones. But, people are still people," said Miller, the Utah Jazz owner whose ever-expanding business empire revolves around a vast collection of automobile dealerships. " 'You can do all the preparation and training, but you still can't determine the outcome -- because they're still people, and there are so many variables.' "

" 'With Cobras . . . you do certain things to them, and you get certain results. Now is it 100 perc...

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