someone must have photos !
I did not make it to saac 1 but somewhere i have photos from saac 2 hershey
Here are some of my pictures from SAAC 1. I have many more, but it will take time for me to scan them and prepare to post (so much easier thses days with digital cameras).
Mike Shoen's Daytona Coupe, CSX2602
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Mike offered to let me drive it
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Gordon Gimball's Cobra that I missed out on (better that he got it and put it to good use)
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Rick Bawden's Cobra
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Royal Kreiger's Cobra
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Mark Hefte's Cobra
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Tomb of the Unknown Cobra
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Legends in the parking lot
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Tom Payne, Carroll Shelby, Al Dowd, Allen Grant
That's all for now...gotta fire up the scanner again
Jeff
Great!
Thanks for adding the pictures!
Thanks Jeff! Please continue if you have the time.
What time of the year was this...?
Fantastic - thanks!
Ruben
Quote from: Greg on March 15, 2018, 03:30:01 PM
What time of the year was this...?
August 19 - 21, 1976 in beautiful Oakland California
I am eager to see any and all of the photos you can post.
My KR's PO lived in that area, in those days. Not sure if he was a SAAC member, but I'm hoping to see my car!
Many thanks!!
Okay Guys,
I found just a few strays in a box. These were crappy pics. I doubled up a couple of them just because these were prints from a box film camera an old 110 Kodak box camera if you remember those. I know I have more back in CA (I'm currently in NY). These are nothing special as I said, but if anyone who went to SAAC 1 you probably saw these cars too.
Cheers,
~Earl J
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Thanks again for the additional pictures these look great and I am sure bring back a flood of memories.
That's around the time I got bit by the cobra fangs. Look at all the cars with day 2 mods, cars painted refrigerator white,mud flaps,67 wheels on 66s, wrong wheels on almost every car,big and littles for that stance ,stereos,aftermarket shifters,exhaust systems,racing stickers to adorn the engine compartment. Nobody cared back then they were just 10 year old used and abused hot rods,what a great time to be part of this automotive culture. :)
Quote from: 427heaven on March 16, 2018, 01:47:07 PM
That's around the time I got bit by the cobra fangs. Look at all the cars with day 2 mods, cars painted refrigerator white,mud flaps,67 wheels on 66s, wrong wheels on almost every car,big and littles for that stance ,stereos,aftermarket shifters,exhaust systems,racing stickers to adorn the engine compartment. Nobody cared back then they were just 10 year old used and abused hot rods,what a great time to be part of this automotive culture. :)
RE: Day 2 and "wrong" in same sentence. Those were improvements. Fatter tires better handling different color and stereos buyer preference. Not a concours guy. Prefer that everyone enjoy their car to the fullest. Those "mods" are part of the history of the car and correct for it. Too many are becoming 100 point museum pieces. The only one having fun with those is the transport driver who sneaks it off the trailer 1/2 way to the next show and burns a little rubber.
Cragar SS's on a Shelby ..... blasphemous! (the Lime Gold '67)
I love the look of the '65 GT350 with the while steel rims.
Perfect stance / width / offset!
Only thing I would have done different was use Wimbledon White instead of the bright white.
This was the time it seemed a good majority of the early 65/66 cars with the exception of the black 66 Hertz cars ran with the competition front ends (R Model apron).
Jeff, did you take a pic of the 65 350(s) with the Boss302 or the one with the Gurney Eagle heads? I know I took them, but just haven't located those old box of pics. Nice you took a pic of Jack Schroll's 6S001 on the trailer.
Cheers,
~Earl J
Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on March 16, 2018, 02:05:21 PM
RE: Day 2 and "wrong" in same sentence. Those were improvements. Fatter tires better handling different color and stereos buyer preference. Not a concours guy. Prefer that everyone enjoy their car to the fullest. Those "mods" are part of the history of the car and correct for it. Too many are becoming 100 point museum pieces. The only one having fun with those is the transport driver who sneaks it off the trailer 1/2 way to the next show and burns a little rubber.
Big +1
Anyone have pictures of the Cobra with the SOHC motor in it. I believe it was from Texas if I remember correctly.
Roy
don't want to get off topic, but Carter Gette from N.Y. had a cammer in CSX 3270. don't know if the car was ever in Texas, haven't got my registry at hand. I'd posted a pic in the CSX 3000 thread.
Mike
There were "several" 'cammers. Carter's was just one of them. Ned is going to be the best authority on that. I heard of three. One in Ohio, Texas and NY.
Sometimes getting information on Cobras back then seemed like you needed the highest security clearance and asking questions would get very aggressive negative responses?
Having been in front of Carter's several times it seemed that the biggest difference with the 'cammer vs a good MR was the sound from the front of the car.
The first time I heard it I thought a 747 was trying to make a forced landing behind me. 16 feet of cam timing chains makes one heck of a unique 'racket' when you wind them up! 8)
We are aware of 5 Cobras that have had an SOHC engine installed: Bruce Waller (NY) put one in CSX 3022 in the early '70s. Another was installed in CSX 3208 in MI in '74. Carter Getter's 3270 got one back in '71 in NY. It took over 10 years for the SOHC engine the owner had located to get installed into CSX 3305 (CO), but it didn't occur until after the then-owner sold the car in the early '80s. And CSX 3331 had one installed by its original owner in WV back in the late '60s. At SAAC-1, there was a '34 Ford body mounted on a 427 Cobra chassis that had an SOHC in it. It was sold and built up into a stock 427 Cobra, but the chassis number was obliterated and no one has been able to ID what it might have originally been.
The body in white was 6S001/ this is exactly the way it came to me to be redone 30 + years later
Jeff et al
Thanks for posting
Ya gotta love the bell bottoms and leisure suits.
I read somewhere years ago that the cobra in the movie "The Hollywood Knights" was CSX3285 and it had a cammer installed in it at the time. Was that true or just snake oil?
3285 never had a cammer, as best we know, but was in the movie. Installing one requires a lot of work, including removal of the longitudinal tubing at the sides of the engine bay, so it's not a casual swap that can be easily reversed.
Quote from: Cobra Ned on March 17, 2019, 11:41:37 AMthere was a '34 Ford body mounted on a 427 Cobra chassis that had an SOHC in it. It was sold and built up into a stock 427 Cobra, but the chassis number was obliterated and no one has been able to ID what it might have originally been.
The $10 grand (?) asking price also included a pickup bed full (10-12) of magnesium 427 wheels.
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A few photos given to me by a friend. Also see the PDF attachment done in the 2009 Shelby American.
Quote from: silverton_ford on June 14, 2021, 10:49:00 PM
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A few photos given to me by a friend. Also see the PDF attachment done in the 2009 Shelby American.
I see Jim Wicks face in the upper right.
Quote from: silverton_ford on June 14, 2021, 10:49:00 PM
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Duane Bowers Cobra freshly redone from it's Gumball Rally duty. He was very POed when someone leaned on the car and put a dent by the roll bar.
Quote from: Richstang on March 16, 2018, 02:56:23 PMI love the look of the '65 GT350 with the while steel rims.
Pretty sure that is 020. It belonged to Jim and Cheryl Wallace. Her dad was an engineer at Hughes near LAX and he saw the cars running around town and tracked them down to the airport. They sent him to HiPo Motors (on Sepulvada at that time) and he bought the demo. After a few months he had it painted tan. His daughters were always getting stopped and tickets when the took it for a drive.
I still have a pair of 8" steel wheels with the same offsets Jim used on those. They clear the rear springs and fender wells with the lips rolled.
Jim also hauled the Coupe there from Petersen's Hollywood Blvd museum. We all remarked about the POS trailer - but it also was an original SA item.