Just when you thought it was safe
to assume that 2015 would be the year
of the GT350, along comes Charles
Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and
Kinrara. Lord March, a British aristo-
crat, is the founder of the Goodwood
Festival of Speed and the Goodwood
Revival. He is also President of the
British Automobile Racing Club, hon-
orary member of the British Racing
Drivers Club and, some would say, the
Patron Saint of British Vintage Rac-
ing. For this year’s Revival he invited
all six of the original Cobra Daytona
Coupes – and thereby sucked all of the
oxygen out of the vintage racing world.
Every year at Goodwood, Lord
March and the other event organizers
find a way to make headlines by at-
tracting some of the most iconic cars
in automotive racing history. All six
Cobra Daytona Coupes, together for
the first time ever, would be quite a
feat for this year’s event. It would com-
memorate the 50th Anniversary of
Shelby American’s Cobra winning the
World Manufacturers Championship.
No sooner was it announced that all
six Coupes would be together than
doubts it would happen were being
whispered. Five of the cars were on
board, their owners ponying up their
individual transportation costs. The
lone holdout was Dr. Fred Simeone,
and after some serious back-and-forth
phone calls between England and
Philadelphia he relented. There
would, after all, be six original Day-
tona Coupes at the Goodwood Revival.
The SHELBY AMERICAN
Fall 2015 77
Nigel Harniman photos.
– Rick Kopec