I had entered a raffle to win a replica and was reading all about those. Not mentioned was the fact that the rear fenders were bigger to accommodate the wider wheels and it was an FIA regulation that the fenders had to cover the wheels. The other one is owned by a guy named “Mr. cobra” Who had the foresight to buy a wrecked one and rebuild it. Can you imagine what those are
worth today? They were just old worn out race cars then. My favorite story though involves the cobra Daytona coupe at the end of the 65 season. They had just won the FIA championship but Ford was telling Shelby to forget his cobras and concentrate on making the GT 40 a winner. And Allen Mann was running the cobra team in the 65 season and at the end he had five or six cobra
Daytona coops sitting in England and Shelby had no interest in spending the money to bring them back. And since they would be taxed by UK law shall be told Allen to simply put them on a barge with the taxman and dump them in the ocean. And Allen did not have the heart to do that so at his own expense he put them on a ship to send back to California.
They just rode on the top of the ship exposed to the elements. And of course that’s another legendary car but the subject of another story