How’s that for a name? I guess the cool cats at Exotic Auto Restoration weren’t satisfied by Superformance’s take on the legendary Brock Coupe. According to EAR, their version of the car remains faithful to the original Le Mans racer, sporting massive fender flares, huge 18 inch wheels (faithful to what now?) and serious Bilstein [...]
And not just some recreation, either. A genuine, original 1965 Shelby Daytona Coupe, chassis number CSX2601 will be up for bid at 8:00 p.m. on May 18. This rig is supposedly the sixth of eight cars constructed to take on the European competition at Le Mans. How’d it fare? The car took three outright victories [...]
They were going to call it the Brock Coupe. Then they decided to call it the Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe. More of a proper name, for sure. And long one of my favorite cars. Did I mention that Superformance let me drive it, not just lean against its fiberglass shell? They let me drive it [...]
There’s a funny scene from the otherwise forgettable poker spoof The Grand where Richard Kind’s character refers to Doyle Brunson as “Tex Brunson” and the announcer Phil Gordon says, “…it’s a tell when you don’t know who Doyle Brusnon is.” Likewise, you can’t call yourself a racing fan if you don’t know Phil Hill, who [...]
This got me thinking about one of my absolute most favorite cars. Sometimes just called the Daytona Coupe. Designed by Pete Brock specifically to go 185 mph on the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans, the Daytona Coupe exceeded all expectations. Not only did it go 196 mph on the infamous straight, but it won Le [...]
When people think about American racing, they often think first of Carroll Shelby. And why not? His Cobra and Daytona Coupes were totally dominant during the first half of the 1960s. Shelby stuck real men like Ken Miles, Bob Bondurant, Dan Gurney, Phil Hill and Jack Sears at the various helms and even managed to [...]
It’s just a Shelby kinda day. Word is Shelby Distribution is planning on once again selling the fabled Daytona Coupe, only this incarnation is from Superformance and sports an aluminum body. Since they’re coming straight from the man himself (and Pete Brock), the cars will be listed in the Shelby Registry and will feature an [...]
