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Where is the car located?

Have any of my fellow Canadian members received their 2024 annual yet?

Nothing in my mailbox yet...

My copy was delivered today.

[CSX2389]

CSX2389 was rebuilt as a McCluskey Daytona Coupe

[CSX3041]

it's a replica claiming to be CSX3041

Have any of my fellow Canadian members received their 2024 annual yet?

Nothing in my mailbox yet...

DID NOT SELL at a high bid of $3.7 million USD

check back in six days

Did in sell ?

[COB6106]

Cool webfind!

The car is COB6106.

Nice color footage in this vintage film recently posted.

- Phillip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XvOQmEzNcI

UPDATE: I've found two small articles that confirm the event as the 6th annual Braille Rally in Jun/Jul 1967 (exact date TBC).

One item is from the Jul 1967 issue of the Cobra Crier (Shelby American staff newsletter) and the other is from the Sep 1967 issue of the SCCA's Sports Car magazine. Am still trying to ID the Cobra, one of two entered in the rally.

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from SAI's Cobra Crier, Jul 1967:


from SCCA's Sports Car magazine, Sep 1967:

Lew Spencer drove a 427 Cobra street roadster in the California SCCA's Braille Rally in the mid-to-late 1960s. As the event name would suggest, Spencer's navigator Ken M. was blind.

I haven't yet been able to identify the serial number of this particular Cobra, or the month/date the rally took place. The two round taillamps would place it somewhere in the CSX3200-3300 series.

I would appreciate any information that would shed some light on this.

  Nice to see a selection of my Cobra gags featured on page 3 (including the one above).

More here, if anyone is interested: www.clubcobra.com/forums/all-cobra-talk/147711-sharing-some-funny-cobra-memes.html

Three factory team USRRC Cobras -- namely CSX2488 (#19), CSX2558 (#13) and CSX2494 (#33) -- raced at Castle Rock and Mid-Ohio in Aug 1965 wearing those race numbers.

Does anyone recognize this particular photo and can you confirm which of the two races it's from?

My best guess is Mid-Ohio as this is the order in which they ran/finished, but I cannot say 100%.

How much will it go for do you guess?

Your guess is as good as mine, but I'd think they must be looking for $5 million USD or so.

Possibly the most famous original full-competition 427 Cobra roadster is coming up for auction at Mecum Kissimmee on Jan 18, 2025.

Nicknamed "Ollie the Dragon" for its tendency to spit flames through the hood scoop, CSX3009 is arguably the most successful big-block racing Cobra of all time. It won 60% of the races it entered and clinched the 1966 ARRC A/P Championship (driven by Ed Lowther) as well as the 1973 and 1974 SCCA National Championships (driven by Sam Feinstein). The car was meticulously restored to its 1965 Essex Wire Team livery by Mike McCluskey from 2009 to 2015.

Pre-auction estimate TBD.

Firestone race tires on a Cobra? What's with that?

I dunno. Did Bob Johnson have a binding contract with Firestone, at the time?