| Re: even MORE great 917 footage!
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Originally Posted by chuck  GI have a friend who painted the first Cobra for Carroll Shelby. He painted it yellow because he had some yellow paint. (Not "Moon" yellow as some have said). Shelby didn't have any money to pay him but said that he would make it up to him someday. Someday came in 1967 when Shelby called to say he had 2 cars at the LA Airport Imperial Highway shop and that my friend was welcome to either one of them. One was a Daytona Coupe and the other was a Ford GT40 roadster. Chassis 109. Shelby raced it at LeMans in 1965 where it retired early with (Collotti) transaxle failure. My friend took the GT40. | That's Dean Jeffries, right? He made several notable Hollywood cars in the 1960s including the Monkeemobile? As I recall he owned a yellow De Tomaso Mangusta for many years too....
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'72 De Tomaso Pantera, '66 Contemporary 427 Cobra, '66 Shelby GT-350 clone, and gearing up for a Superformance Mk 1.... |