CSX2011 - Anyone have other photos of the Cobra?

[Benny]

I would like to start archiving photos of CSX2000 Series Cobras. I'm finding photos on the internet & Facebook but they may not include the CSX numbers. However on Facebook SAAC member & Cobra Registrar Ned Scudder identifies some of these cars which I really appreciate. I no from page 73 from the World Registry of Cobras, 4th edition that CSX2011 was originally a red car then white with red & blue motifs that went racing.
I've been a SAAC member since 2014, I own a 2011 Shelby GT500 but I really have a heart for the CSX2000 & 3000 series Cobras, cheers.

[SunDude]

I co-manage a group on Flickr, dedicated to original Cobras only, that you might find interesting:

www.flickr.com/groups/ac_cobras_original_cars_only/pool/

[Benny]

Hi SunDude, Thank you for the link & I see you have a lot of Cobra photos that I can troll through so cheers. I don't have a Flickr account but I'll get around to that this week, thank you.

[6s2055]

SunDude
Great site! The blue Cobra with Griswold grafts is csx2192, currently owned by John Goodman Seattle. If you expand the picture you can read the black Ca. Plate XAW683. That still has the same plate I sold the car in 1968!

[Richstang]

I would like to start archiving photos of CSX2000 Series Cobras. I'm finding photos on the internet & Facebook but they may not include the CSX numbers. However on Facebook SAAC member & Cobra Registrar Ned Scudder identifies some of these cars which I really appreciate. I no from page 73 from the World Registry of Cobras, 4th edition that CSX2011 was originally a red car then white with red & blue motifs that went racing.
I've been a SAAC member since 2014, I own a 2011 Shelby GT500 but I really have a heart for the CSX2000 & 3000 series Cobras, cheers.

Hi Benny, Welcome to the forum!

Just like you, I've been collecting photos of all the Cobras. There'a at least 20-30 vintage photos of csx2011 out there in the wild / internet.
I was talking to another forum member about the paint scheme shown in your later restoration photo and thought it might not be entirely correct to the vintage appearance.
More recently (2015 RM auction) it showed up in a white / blue restoration version which may be more historically accurate.
Hopefully one of our resident experts will chime in and clear this up for us.

[A-Snake]

[honker]

I have this in my files, I believe ? ? that is CSX 2011 #97 on the left, with CSX 2017 #11 ??  at Green Valley Texas in '67.

Stand to be corrected on the CSX #s & date,  some info on CSX 2017, in my 2008 registry is missing, the newer registry probably

has more info ?

Kranky ? ?

Mike

[Benny]

Hi Benny, Welcome to the forum!

Just like you, I've been collecting photos of all the Cobras. There'a at least 20-30 vintage photos of csx2011 out there in the wild / internet.
I was talking to another forum member about the paint scheme shown in your later restoration photo and thought it might not be entirely correct to the vintage appearance.
More recently (2015 RM auction) it showed up in a white / blue restoration version which may be more historically accurate.
Hopefully one of our resident experts will chime in and clear this up for us.
[/quote]

Hi Richstang,
Thank you for the reply on CSX2011, I also like the way you supplied your photos with & file name . Concerning the sequence of colours, red, white, white with blue motifs, white with red & blue motifs & currently white with blue motifs? Would you think that may have been the sequence for the colour schemes?

[Benny]

Thank you A-Snake.

[Benny]

I have this in my files, I believe ? ? that is CSX 2011 #97 on the left, with CSX 2017 #11 ??  at Green Valley Texas in '67.

Stand to be corrected on the CSX #s & date,  some info on CSX 2017, in my 2008 registry is missing, the newer registry probably

has more info ?

Kranky ? ?

Mike

Thank you honker, Mike.

[mark p]

Did you see this thread:
http://www.saacforum.com/index.php?topic=39.0

[Bill Collins]

If I recall correctly, CSX2011 was at SAAC 12 in Charlotte in 1987. It had recently been unearthed and the owner displayed it in the car show along with a sign taking a poll on restoring it vs leaving it alone. By the end of the day, the vote was overwhelmingly in favor of leaving it as it was. Bear in mind this was long before "barn find" mania took root.

At that time the conventions were still being visited by some fellows who owned an unusual vintage camera that rotated on a high tripod and took a panoramic shot of an area maybe 200 feet across. They usually photographed the car show, but that year at Charlotte there were quite a few genuine Cobras in attendance, so the focus (no pun intended) was on them.

The panoramic photo was of all the Cobras arrayed on the Charlotte Motor Speedway front straight. Front and center was CSX2011, with Carroll himself, who was in attendance, standing beside it.

That would be THE photo to post of the car, if that can be done.

[Benny]

Yes I did thank you Mark, cheers.

[Benny]

Hi Bill & thank you for your input, I'll try & investigate SAAC 12 some how, cheers.

[gjz30075]

If no one here has that panoramic shot,  the photographer is most likely Doug Chadwick, lives in West Virginia, and he might still have copies.
http://www.patchworkfilms.com/doug.htm

He continues to shot the iconic panoramic picture at the annual Lotus Owner's Gatherings and I'd love to see him again at SAAC conventions.