Art on a Cobra

[deathsled]

Enamel paint. What? No water based? Lol!
https://youtu.be/j3a4tFGY-mY
I figure this must be an original from the day.

[honker]

deathsled, thanks for posting, not seen that video before, only some stills from the same event.  as we used to say "far out man"  Here is some stuff I have in my files on the car, the write up I found maybe here, or on another forum, long ago.  It's COB6107, page 652 in the 4th edition of the registry.

Mike

[deathsled]

Thanks for the photos. I'd take that car no matter what anyone painted over the body...

[98SVT - was 06GT]

It was a thing in the time period. Later BMW did a whole series they called the art cars.
The Janis Joplin car sold for 1.7 mil. It was a genuine 356SC though.

[1967 eight barrel]

The 60's. Thank God they're long gone.

[557]

I kinda dig it.It's groovy...

[jguyer]

It starts with just a small Snoopy tattoo on your arse....

[Bill]

I made a painting of it that's in a bookstore in Riverside which I could print here if anybody's interested,The actual car was repainted purple and sold in England.

Mr Wallace,

   If you want to place an advertisement to sell your items, the only place this is allowed on this forum is our classified subforums. In your case, it would go under the misc for sale subforum at the following url:

https://www.saacforum.com/index.php?board=48.0

All for sale posts must include an asking price per the rules of this forum.

Bill

[FL SAAC]

Interesting story thanks for sharing

That is a real Cobra though sold in the  UK, never saw the Shelby American factory.COB6107 was one of 25 Cobra Mk3s built with the 289 engine for the British and European market. As Ford owned the Cobra trademark, these cars were marketed as AC 289 Sports.

In addition to the 25 completed cars, another two were sold in partially assembled form.At first glance it looks like a big block but that's the way they were sold in UK big block shape but small block engine,

COB6107 was dispatched to Len Street Engineering of Drayton Gardens in Chelsea on November 11th 1965. It was originally painted Svecia Red with black trim and registered GYK 768C.

The owner who commissioned the special art car paint job was a young wanker , Tara Browne, with a title (right Honourable such-and-such) , an heir to  the Guinness beer fortune, and a bosom buddy of the Beatles. He had arranged for the car to be shown in an art gallery and was on the way to see its unveiling in a  Lotus, ran a light and crashed and died. The Beatles were shook up and Lennion wrote the song A Day in the Life in tribute to him without saying the lad's name. I made a painting of it that's in a bookstore in Riverside which I could print here if anybody's interested,The actual car was repainted purple and sold in England.

[propayne]

Video won't play for me so don't know if this Cobra was painted by these guys?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fool_(design_collective)

They did some cars also - Lennon's Rolls I believe (too lazy to double check my sources).

- Phillip

[67 GT350]

....and now we have the world today.

[98SVT - was 06GT]

That is a real Cobra though sold in the  UK, ....... As Ford owned the Cobra trademark, these cars were marketed as AC 289 Sports.

At this time Shelby still owned "Cobra" and all his other trademarks. Ford didn't get them until mid 1967 for an unpaid 1962 loan. In 67 SA was broken into 2 companies Parts and Automotive. Parts stayed in SoCal with CS and Automotive was taken under Ford's wing (with a 3 year deal) and moved to Dearborn to produce the 68-70 cars. A 3rd company was started, Shelby Racing with a 3 year contract - they finished their LeMans deal in June 67 and the TransAm was out in 1970 when all the factories pulled out of the series (except AMC).

[deathsled]

That is a real Cobra though sold in the  UK, ....... As Ford owned the Cobra trademark, these cars were marketed as AC 289 Sports.

At this time Shelby still owned "Cobra" and all his other trademarks. Ford didn't get them until mid 1967 for an unpaid 1962 loan. In 67 SA was broken into 2 companies Parts and Automotive. Parts stayed in SoCal with CS and Automotive was taken under Ford's wing (with a 3 year deal) and moved to Dearborn to produce the 68-70 cars. A 3rd company was started, Shelby Racing with a 3 year contract - they finished their LeMans deal in June 67 and the TransAm was out in 1970 when all the factories pulled out of the series (except AMC).

You mean Shelby didn't risk it all at a hanger while taking The Deuce on a test run in a GT40?

[98SVT - was 06GT]

You mean Shelby didn't risk it all at a hanger while taking The Deuce on a test run in a GT40?

In one of the car magazines at the time there was a funny article with a drawing of the 2 giants (Shelby tall - HenryII wide) stuffed into the Ford GT. Maybe someone remembers/has the article and can scan/post it.

[deathsled]

That would be fun to see.