Shelby Daytona

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1964 Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe (chassis number CSX2299) exhibited at the 2010 Canadian International AutoShow
1964 Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe (chassis number CSX2299) exhibited at the 2010 Canadian International AutoShow
Daytona
Production period: 1964-1965
Class : race car
Body versions : Coupe
Engines: Otto engine :
4.7 liters (279 kW)
Length: 4150 mm
Width: 1720 mm
Height: 1180 mm
Wheelbase : 2286 mm
Empty weight : 1043 kg
Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupé by Bob Bondurant / Jochen Neerpasch in the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1965

The Shelby Daytona (as Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe called) was a coupe that of Carroll Shelby was developed and to his AC Cobra - Roadster was ajar.

Development history

It was specially built for car racing , especially to compete with Ferrari in the GT class. Only six Daytonas were made in 1964 and 1965, as Shelby then returned to the Ford GT40 project. Pete Brock designed the body while Bob Negstad designed the chassis . Negstad was also responsible for the chassis of the GT40, among other things. Carrozzeria Gransport in Modena, Italy , produced five out of six bodies . The 4.7-liter Ford V8 engine developed 380 hp at 7000 rpm and accelerated the almost 1,043 kilogram car from 0 to 100 km / h in 4.4 seconds. With the four-speed gearbox used, the top speed was just over 300 km / h.

The missing sixth vehicle CSX2287

Five Shelby Daytonas were built in Italy . Another vehicle , known to collectors as the CSX2287, was made in the USA . There were records of the owners of the vehicles, but those of the sixth Daytona were lost in the mid-1970s. For a long time, historians and collectors feared that the sixth vehicle would have disappeared.

In 2001, CSX2287 was discovered in a rented warehouse in California. The owner, Donna O'Hara, had burned herself alive. The vehicle was thought to be lost for almost three decades. At an estimated value of approximately $ 4,000,000, the Daytona was part of a legal battle between the deceased's mother, who sold it to a collector in Pennsylvania, and a friend of Donna O'Hara, who, according to her will, the heir of the contents of the warehouse should be.

Another previous owner of the car was music producer Phil Spector , who was often seen with it on the streets of Los Angeles. Designed for high-speed racing, the interior of the vehicle got uncomfortably hot after the machine warmed up, among other problems. “The Daytona wasn't a road vehicle; he was a racing car, ”said Shelby. Spector drove him on the road anyway. Legend has it that he collected so many excessive speeding tickets that his lawyer eventually advised him to get rid of the car before his license was revoked. In the context of the inheritance disputes, he again claimed that he had never sold it to a dealer, but only stored it there.

CSX2287 has been refurbished and is now on display at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia. The US television star Jay Leno visited the museum once and there is a video of him driving the Daytona on his website.

Ford Shelby GR-1

In 2005, Ford and Shelby developed a sports coupe called the Ford Shelby GR-1 , with a streamlined body and a new V10 engine that powered the new Shelby Cobra . Carroll Shelby himself said that he did not want the car to be called "Cobra", but that it still bears a clear resemblance to the Daytona.

Replicas of the Daytona

statistics

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wallace Wyss: Sidebar: The Italian American Cobra. www.velocetoday.com, accessed September 7, 2011 .
  2. ↑ 1964–1965 Shelby Daytona Coupe - Top Speed
  3. ↑ Legend of the Cobra Car Takes a Twist Into Legal Quagmire
  4. ^ Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum
  5. ↑ Video by Jay Leno in the Daytona