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The Amelia Island show, March 5-8 2026, has a Shelby class.   Lori and I will be there with CSX2367.   As we get closer, I'm thinking we could get together - maybe a meal, try to run together during the Road Tour, etc.   We've rented a VRBO for the week, I might even have a spare garage space.   Dave Wathen. You cannot view this attachment.

Great show today, glorious spring day after some rainy days.  150+ Ford related vehicles, bout 1/2 Shelby related.  50th anniversary of the chapter.  At Ford World Hdq which has a pleasant open park setting.  You cannot view this attachment.

Tom Cotter posted a new "Barn Find Hunter" about Herbie Hancock's Cobra.  It's worth watching.  Dave

Lori and I drove CSX2367 to The Detroit Historical Society's warehouse Tuesday morning (30 miles, 32 degrees!) to provide our Cobra as comparison to the two prototypes stored there.  Tom Cotter was filming two episodes of Barn Find Hunter - one on the 200 donated cars stored there at old Fort Wayne and the other episode on the Cobra Cougar and the Bordinat Cobra, both built on Cobra tube chassis.  These two cars have been seen at a few shows over the years, neither currently runs, and they are in ok condition.   I'll post when this episode is available to watch, should be a fun show.   The cars are all stored in car cacoon  bubbles, and are a wide variety from Brass, to Scarabs, to multiple prototype/show cars.  Dave

We had our Cobra at the new downtown Detroit Concours (ex-Meadowbrook and St Johns) over the weekend.  The judge with the hat while I'm flashing the lights, horn, etc is Jean Jennings.  She was editor of Automobile Magazine for a decade and is in many photos with Carroll Shelby from those years.
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There were concerns about this traditionally large multi make invitational show surviving takeover by Hagerty and the move to downtown.  It went great.  Lori and I have participated since the Meadowbrook days, and some of the fun support events have returned, like an entrants strolling dinner Friday eve and a black tie event Saturday evening.  The DIA grounds have enough grass and trees to make the setting comfortable, and the organizers worked out all the logistics of parking, security, meals, etc very well.

CSX 2367 won its class of 50's and 60's sports cars, which had a real range including a Cunningham, Nash Heally, Kaiser-Darrin etc.   

Dave

Multiple 289 and 427 Cobras going thru this auction Friday and Saturday.  Most of these are well done restorations.   So prices will be interesting.