1964 Sebring Crash

Ron61 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009, 07:18 AM

I was playing with my camera trying a few things and thouht that I would post these pictures for a while. This is one Cobra that wasn't rebuilt.

Ron

VRM · #2 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009, 07:32 AM

I love that book.

VRM · #3 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009, 07:39 AM

Have you seen the one that Friedman did with Dick Guldstrand? It's about Corvettes, but has lots of good stuff showing competitors including some Cobras.

Steve

Ron61 · #4 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009, 07:48 AM

Steve,

No, I haven't seen the one about the Corvettes. Our only bookstore that really had anything or could order it went out of business so I have to browse on the net now to look at books. It seems everything around here has gone out of business except a couple of the larger parts places and they have cut back on inventory.

Ron

1ntCobra · #5 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009, 10:11 AM

Ron,

I'm pretty sure that this Cobra was "rebuilt" many years later, supposedly with pieces of the scrap removed from the Shelby dumpster by some employee...

The Friedman book on Corvettes that I have is on the Grand Sport Corvettes.

Ron61 · #6 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009, 10:55 AM

You may be correct about it being rebuilt. I heard back then that they destroyed the vin numbers so nothing could be reused. I was down there at the time and now I wish I had gone over and looked at it. Heck, I could have probably bought the whole pile for almost nothing.

Ron

VRM · #7 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009, 11:03 AM

The book is called Corvette Thunder, and is available from Dick Guldstrands web site. Friedman and Guldstrand signed a lot of them, but I also know that they don't update the website a lot.
http://www.corvettethunder.com/

There is also another one about the L88 racing Corvettes with lots of great race photos.
http://www.corvetteracinglegends.com/

Both are worth checking out.

Steve