Found on https://www.facebook.com/coolnvintage?fref=nf
in the background is the airport structure, and an airplane, so I'm wondering what all the boys were doing at Shelby's shop... at least 7 boys in this photo, so, school trip?
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mobbed by admiring future leadfoots
Friday, June 12, 2015
Found on https://www.facebook.com/coolnvintage?fref=nf
in the background is the airport structure, and an airplane, so I'm wondering what all the boys were doing at Shelby's shop... at least 7 boys in this photo, so, school trip?
Uh oh, some one pulled a fast one. Carroll Shelby. Looks like a lot of shenanigans and illegal stuff were hidden about the 65 Cobra production so Ferrari could be attacked on the track
Thursday, June 4, 2015
The set up:
Ford wanted Ferrari taken down a couple pegs
Shelby was a known contender for the title
The problem: 100 cars had to be built to get the FIA cert so it was legal for 1966 competition. They weren't.
Here comes the dirt!
In the present day, 50 years later, the Carroll Shelby Trust announced that they will finish what the old master started — building the remaining 1965 Cobra 427 S/Cs to be sold to the public as track-only race cars, three years after Shelby's death.
Back in 1965, Shelby completed 53 of the proposed 100 Cobra 427 S/Cs required to comply with FIA GT rules that stated all manufacturers must produce at least 100.
In 1988 Shelby decided to resurrect the remaining ‘65 427 S/Cs — primarily because he knew it would reap large profits, and restart his legacy that had faded through lousy GT500s rebadged as 1970s because they didn't sell in 1969, Turbo 4 cylinder Mopars, van kit conversions for GM, and the Dakota mid size truck.
Five ‘65 427 S/Cs were built and sold between 1990 and 1992, all with original 1965 titles.
Shelby had been quoted as saying the cars derived from old AC chassis he had kept in storage since 1965, but had lost the original titles. According to a Los Angeles Times report from 1993, this claim helped him secure duplicate titles from the DMV — but it later emerged that the chassis were in fact built by McCluskey Ltd. in 1991 and ‘92, with only the motor and transmission being original from 1965.
Shelby later backtracked, admitting that McCluskey did in fact build the chassis — said to be an exact AC replica, even duplicating the coarse welds and saw cuts to perfection — but responded by saying, “If I said they were 1965 chassis or if I inferred it, it meant that they were built in the ‘60s and I was using '65 engines which means that they are '65 cars if I so choose to say so."
Shelby reportedly asked Angliss to build the chassis for the then-new 427 S/Cs in 1988 and ship them to the U.S. labelled as “washing machine parts.” Shelby planned to let the cars rust in the rain for a while and then claim he had stored them since 1965. “It is perfectly legal for me to build a new car today and register it and sell it as a '65,” he said.
The new Cobra 427 S/Cs being built in 2015 will have a CSX VIN and badge number originally assigned in 1965. The MSO and title documents were all signed by Carroll Shelby himself, and the cars will only be track legal.
Like the revived Cobras from the ‘80s and ‘90s, these Cobras will be sold as zero miles, newly-made 1965 models. Except, they aren't.
https://www.yahoo.com/autos/even-death-cant-stop-carroll-shelby-from-selling-118800132277.html
Ford wanted Ferrari taken down a couple pegs
Shelby was a known contender for the title
The problem: 100 cars had to be built to get the FIA cert so it was legal for 1966 competition. They weren't.
Here comes the dirt!
In the present day, 50 years later, the Carroll Shelby Trust announced that they will finish what the old master started — building the remaining 1965 Cobra 427 S/Cs to be sold to the public as track-only race cars, three years after Shelby's death.
Back in 1965, Shelby completed 53 of the proposed 100 Cobra 427 S/Cs required to comply with FIA GT rules that stated all manufacturers must produce at least 100.
In 1988 Shelby decided to resurrect the remaining ‘65 427 S/Cs — primarily because he knew it would reap large profits, and restart his legacy that had faded through lousy GT500s rebadged as 1970s because they didn't sell in 1969, Turbo 4 cylinder Mopars, van kit conversions for GM, and the Dakota mid size truck.
Five ‘65 427 S/Cs were built and sold between 1990 and 1992, all with original 1965 titles.
Shelby had been quoted as saying the cars derived from old AC chassis he had kept in storage since 1965, but had lost the original titles. According to a Los Angeles Times report from 1993, this claim helped him secure duplicate titles from the DMV — but it later emerged that the chassis were in fact built by McCluskey Ltd. in 1991 and ‘92, with only the motor and transmission being original from 1965.
Shelby later backtracked, admitting that McCluskey did in fact build the chassis — said to be an exact AC replica, even duplicating the coarse welds and saw cuts to perfection — but responded by saying, “If I said they were 1965 chassis or if I inferred it, it meant that they were built in the ‘60s and I was using '65 engines which means that they are '65 cars if I so choose to say so."
Shelby reportedly asked Angliss to build the chassis for the then-new 427 S/Cs in 1988 and ship them to the U.S. labelled as “washing machine parts.” Shelby planned to let the cars rust in the rain for a while and then claim he had stored them since 1965. “It is perfectly legal for me to build a new car today and register it and sell it as a '65,” he said.
The new Cobra 427 S/Cs being built in 2015 will have a CSX VIN and badge number originally assigned in 1965. The MSO and title documents were all signed by Carroll Shelby himself, and the cars will only be track legal.
Like the revived Cobras from the ‘80s and ‘90s, these Cobras will be sold as zero miles, newly-made 1965 models. Except, they aren't.
https://www.yahoo.com/autos/even-death-cant-stop-carroll-shelby-from-selling-118800132277.html
the Dragonsnakes, and Drag Snakes
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
CSX 2248
this is CSX 2416
CSX 2019 (was in the Elvis movie)
CSX 2357
CSX 2427
CSX 3198
CSX 2093
CSX 2109
CSX 2472
a list of known Dragonsnake configs:
CSX 2019------Factory PR Dragonsnake
CSX 2093------Famous Costilow/Larson car. This was an independent car, non factory built, perhaps the most famous of all the DS cars.
CSX 2248------Factory built for Customer (the El-Cid car)
CSX 2353------Independent (Siebens-Sidel car. )
CSX 2357------Factory car (second one built)
CSX 2427------Factory Prepared/independently campaigned.
CSX 3198------Factory Prepared car for Harr Ford. Only 427 built.
Factory Dragonsnakes: CSX 2019, CSX 2357.
Factory-Prepared Customer Dragonsnakes: CSX 2248, CSX 2427, CSX 2472.
Independently Prepared Cobra Drag Cars: CSX 2075, CSX 2093, CSX 2109.
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