CSX 3047

[s2ms]

I'll take the Comet...

[shelbydoug]

I want the 427 Comet.

...I saw it first!

[tesgt350]

I want the 427 Comet.

...I saw it first!

Below that is a 69 Hemi Roadrunner............................

[JD]

CSX 3047 at Detroit Drag way in the '60s.

Mike

Cobra in reply #10 looks like it has a 1967 OHIO license Plate. 

(I had a Lincoln just like the one parked next to the Cobra in that photo)

[Cobra Ned]

Are you sure that is CSX 3047? It went to Bob Grossman in Nyack, NY, in the fall of '67. Late September, early November.  I saw Kolb delivering the car.

Had to be a different car. Bob Grossman bought 3016, wrecked it at Watkins Glen in the late summer of '66, and bought 3022 as a replacement that fall. He kept it at least until April of '69. There is no record of him having owned 3047.

[s2ms]

I want the 427 Comet.

...I saw it first!

Sorry pal, 1:15 too late! 

[shelbydoug]

Are you sure that is CSX 3047? It went to Bob Grossman in Nyack, NY, in the fall of '67. Late September, early November.  I saw Kolb delivering the car.

Had to be a different car. Bob Grossman bought 3016, wrecked it at Watkins Glen in the late summer of '66, and bought 3022 as a replacement that fall. He kept it at least until April of '69. There is no record of him having owned 3047.

It was a gold SC. How many of them were there then? I presumed it was 3047 because of info in the Registry. It definitely was Kolb and definitely out of Gotham Ford. September/October 1967.

I must have the "lying eyes" sydrome?

[computerworks]

It was a gold SC. How many of them were there then? I presumed it was 3047 because of info in the Registry. It definitely was Kolb and definitely out of Gotham Ford. September/October 1967.

I must have the "lying eyes" sydrome?

CSX3021 and 3047 were the two Hertz Gold 427 cars

[shelbydoug]

It was a gold SC. How many of them were there then? I presumed it was 3047 because of info in the Registry. It definitely was Kolb and definitely out of Gotham Ford. September/October 1967.

I must have the "lying eyes" sydrome?

CSX3021 and 3047 were the two Hertz Gold 427 cars

Did Gotham have them both? They had one.

[computerworks]

Did Gotham have them both? They had one.

Registry says..
3021 was a show car initially, then.. first dealer was Dick Walters Ford (IA)
3047 went thru Larsen ford (White Plains NY)

[Cobra Ned]

The fact that 3047 was definitely in the NY area around the time-frame mentioned makes it entirely possible that there was an owner between the two people listed in the registry. But I don't think Bob Grossman would have owned it. It's more likely that Grossman had his gold race car, 3022, at Gotham Ford for some work and the "delivery" you saw was Grossman picking up the car afterwards. But who knows at this point?

[shelbydoug]

At the time I was knowledgeable enough to know what it was but not enough to take pictures (Brownie Instamatic) or look for serial numbers. So to me, the number is moot.

I know I saw Kolb driving a gold 427 up Broadway, his tie flying in the wind. My reaction was that the car was so quiet. In NYC (Manhattan) everything is amplified by the echos off the buildings which act as canyon effect.

Considering that it was totally unexpected and other then it being a bikini go-go girl who lost her top, this would be just as great...ah, almost as good. In other words, it just made my day.

Normally in either case, I would have been chased away and told, "get away kid!", and I didn't even get slapped.

[shelbydoug]

I stand by my story of seeing a gold 427 driven by Kolb at Broadway and 72nd about October 1967.
Was it an S/C? What's that?

[Cobra Ned]

I used to talk with Bob on a fairly regular basis. If he were still around, I'd ask him about the gold 427 you saw him driving. Regrettably, he's no longer with us, so it's possible we'll never know the answer to the riddle. 

[shelbydoug]

I used to talk with Bob on a fairly regular basis. If he were still around, I'd ask him about the gold 427 you saw him driving. Regrettably, he's no longer with us, so it's possible we'll never know the answer to the riddle. 

It was Bill Kolb. He is not a stranger to me.