Owners group:
I wanted to start a thread regarding the history of our CCX cars. This will involve Peter Bayer and myself documenting truth as to separate urban legend from reality.
My plan will be to try and get him to sit down and answer some long standing questions related to our specific car as an interview in the near future. Please feel free to send me a PM about specific questions you might have so I can be efficient with Peter's time as well as trying to avoid driving him crazy.
Here is the first part of the series/documentation:
Peter,
I hope you might be able to clarify a couple things for all of us with Contemporary Classic cars. I am sort of the moderator for the rag tag group of owners. If you could take a few minutes to help us out it would be great, as you really are the responsible party for this cult. Bet you never thought after so many years there would be an organized group of owners?
What year did CC build the first car?
Where the initial frame numbers build dates? 062482 = June 24th, 1982?
What year did CCX3- numbers start, we guess 1983?
What year did you sell the company?
How many did you build in your tenure in total?
What was the reasoning behind the numbering system?
Was the basis for the car based off of CSX3045?
Thanks
Jeff
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In response:
• The 1st car was built in March of ‘79
• Your interpretation of the chassis numbering system is correct; taking that further, if the number was 062482-2; it would have been the 2nd frame built on that date.
• In the fall of ’83 when the 3rd generation of body molds went into production, we switched over to the CCX numbering system which has no date tie ins. The CCX-3 Series were the 427 SC cars, the CCX-4 were the Daytona coupes and as best I can recall the 289 FIA cars were either CCX-2 or CCX -5 series cars.
• Contemporary Classics was sold to the Burtis family in Oct ’96.
• Since all of the company records were destroyed when Burtis went “Belly Up” in 1999, I can’t tell you for certain how many kits were produced, but I’d estimate that the Contemporary’s total production was somewhere between 1,400 and 1,500 kits.
• If you are talking about the inspiration for the numbering system rather than the company, the CSX letters used in the serial numbers of the original cars stood for Carroll Shelby Export, staying with that same concept, CCX stood for Contemporary Classic Export.
• CSX3045 was the basis for our molds.
Best Regards,
Peter Bayer
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Thank you Peter!
