Gary,
I will be happy to send you a DVD along with a few other requests I've seen. Each DVD has cover art and a 4-page insert, so give me a little time. I can duplicate the DVDs pretty quickly, but I do the packaging 1 at at time.
Consider yourself lucky being a Cobra owner. I 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.
One of the Monkees (TV boy band from the 60s) wanted my friend to chop it up and convert it into a street rod, but thankfully that didn't happen. The car sat in the shop for an extended period of time after which he undertook a complete tub-up restoration. When Shelby gave him the car Jacques Passino who headed Ford Racing at the time chipped in with a second set of Halibrand pin drive wheels, a spare windshield (try to find a GT40 roadster windshield at your local glass shop) a Weber carburated 289, a Collotti trans, and a spare ZF trans.
The last time I saw it, the car was basically complete. It needed the brakes and cooling system plumbed, wiring, new fabric for the original style seats with the grommeted holes, and new plexiglas headlight covers. He faithfully restored the car as it appeared at Le Mans in 1965 with the earlier style nose, not the classic GT40 nose with which we are all familiar. The one area in which he has taken liberty is the engine and transaxle. He put a 4-cam 255 Ford Indy engine and a ZF 5 speed in it. Both are in polished aluminum. Not even remotely accurate but absolutely beautiful. When it's done he plans to show the car and drive it on the street. He has 2 sets of Halibrands...1 aluminum and 1 magnesium...and 2 noses, 2 rear bodies and 2 sets of doors. One set of wheels and body for show and another set for go.
Thanks for your interest in our little film. As I mentioned, I hadn't seen it for about 25 -30 years until last year. It is not a "whizz-bang" racing film. We interviewed Penske and Donohue in the shop and focused on the car's debut at Mosport the weekend of June 10 and 11 1972. It includes footage of the car in the pits and on the track. And some rare shots of it in the shop sans bodywork. Donohue later told me that he didn't enjoy us being around when were shooting the film, but after seeing it, appreciated what we did. I took that as a compliment.
Again, all I ask is that no one copies it, puts it on the internet, or does anything with it that has anything to do with money. Stay in touch. I'll let you know when the DVDs are ready to hit the mail.
Chuck
