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| PRECIOUS METAL: Rob Cohen poses with his 1998 Ferrari F355 GTS (left) and 1983 Porsche 911 (right). photography by Dan Sellers. |
Rob Cohen wakes to the sexy sound of Ferrari engines revving up. That’s because three years ago, the racing fanatic became the first person to build a weekend home at the MotorSport Ranch country club in Cresson. (Or it could just be his Ferrari alarm clock.) Cohen’s need for speed goes back five years to when a friend passed the racing bug on to him. Since then, Cohen has amassed a collection of seven high-end automobiles, including a 2003 Porsche 911, a 1991 Porsche 928 GT, and a 1998 Ferrari F355 GTS. When he’s on the track, Cohen prefers his Shelby Cobra replica or his 1983 Porsche 911, which runs like a dream thanks to a 1997 engine and numerous performance modifications that he did himself. Although Cohen—the CEO of Armstrong Cabinet Products, a subsidiary of Armstrong World Industries—acknowledges some similarities between business and racing (“There’s a similar level of intensity,” he says), he feels the racetrack challenges him in a different way. “In business, there’s very little I can accomplish on my own. It’s about working with a team and leading it,” he says. “But at the track, I’m out by myself. All the mistakes are mine.”
