LANCE REVENTLOW Shelby Cobra CSX2032 and unbelievable 4 Ferrari 250 GTO´s

[Kent]

Maybe someone here needs new toys ;-)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/184961613782?hash=item2b10923fd6:g:41IAAOSwBDRggEZw

[Bill]

Maybe someone here needs new toys ;-)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/184961613782?hash=item2b10923fd6:g:41IAAOSwBDRggEZw

4+ years for sale and still going.

[deathsled]

I have reason to believe that this Cobra had a different livery at one time. Maybe different wheels and not the quick jack mounts...

[honker]

Lots of info in the 4th edition of the registry, might be updated since ?  car was white with red trim originally.

Some doc's I have in my files.

[2112]

Maybe someone here needs new toys ;-)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/184961613782?hash=item2b10923fd6:g:41IAAOSwBDRggEZw

4+ years for sale and still going.

As the dollar continues to plummet in value, he will soon realize his asking price.

[A-Snake]

I have reason to believe that this Cobra had a different livery at one time. Maybe different wheels and not the quick jack mounts...

First white then red then blue then black. Interior went from red to tan to black. Various wheels were used and added items included side vents, quick-fill gas cap, splash shield, chrome side pipes, and quick jacks.

[98SVT - was 06GT]

"and verified by Ned Scudder"

The car - not the story(?)

Lance may have come into some $$$ but mom was controlling the purse strings. She is the one who shut down the racing.

[Side-Oilers]

^^^+1.   

I think she might have told him:  "Keep spending like that and Woolworth is not going to be around forever."   

[JD]

The IRS may have had more to do with shutting Lance down than mommy Woolworth - too many years of a "business" showing no profit was concern that it really wasn't a business!!

Other past threads and stories on the Cobra suggested it was Lance and his brothers' dad that initially bought the car in attempt to get the brother to come back into the fold but that wasn't enough "bait".

Previous thread on this car:
https://www.saacforum.com/index.php?topic=4918.msg42387#msg42387

and another:
https://www.saacforum.com/index.php?topic=12866.msg107543#msg107543

More:
https://www.saacforum.com/index.php?topic=12866.msg107543#msg107543

and
https://www.saacforum.com/index.php?topic=5453.msg46472#msg46472

[98SVT - was 06GT]

"and verified by Ned Scudder" The car - not the story(?)

As I said - from an earlier post by Ned:
Please ignore the moronic "SAAC Conspiracy!" nonsense associated with this car. It is the handiwork of a handicapped moron we call Little Dick Crapford, who fancies himself a historian. He made up all kinds of fraudulent history about this car and sent it to the Cobra Registrar. When it failed to appear in the book (because it was false) he went berserk. He hasn't stopped since. This car was of particular interest to him, as he felt his false narrative on it would make it worth $3 million or better. He now says SAAC has damaged him by millions of dollars since his phony facts failed to materialize in what we publish as a factual Registry. Sorry, Dick, your fiction won't be found in our book.

[Cobra Ned]

Since the prior paragraph was written, the jackass we called Dick Crapford has received his karma. He's gone. And a great deal more history about the rationale behind the Reventlow - Shelby purchase has come to light, mainly through a gentleman who was Lance Reventlow's best friend. He has confirmed that Reventlow lent the fledgling Shelby organization a fair amount of capital to assist the start-up, and CSX 2032 was sent to him as partial collateral. There's a lot more to come out, and it will soon. But suffice it to say, the story Shelby told about the car being a gift for Lance's stepbrother might have been inaccurate. There are no inaccuracies about the fact that Reventlow was 2032's first owner, however, and the factory paperwork documents it clearly.

[honker]

In the Rinsey Mills Shelby book my copy (pub. 2014) on page 238 there is mention of Reventlow  interested, or did he buy it ? in a

car. I wonder if this was CSX2032 ?

There is no mention of this in the Preston Lerner Scarab book, from 1991.

(scan: from Rinsey Mills "Carroll Shelby"  biography)

[98SVT - was 06GT]

.... He has confirmed that Reventlow lent the fledgling Shelby organization a fair amount of capital to assist the start-up, and CSX 2032 was sent to him as partial collateral. .....

Not the last time he did that either. He put his Coupe up as collateral on the Vegas operation that was at the track.

[A-Snake]

Not the last time he did that either. He put his Coupe up as collateral on the Vegas operation that was at the track.

How did that work out for him?