in the last posts i forgot to ad a little timeline ...
03 / 1965 - Car finished on SAI
05 / 14 / 1965 - Car came to Le Havre per Ship and go to Paris for "Eifeltower" Shoot
06 / 19 & 20 / 1965 - Le Mans 1965 car was on several Pics shown
06 / ? ? ? / 1965 - going over Alpine pass to Italy, driven by Peter Brock
06 / befor 29 / 1965 - Test Autodromo di Modena with Fangio
so i would continue with the Journey and come to the
Autodromo di ModenaDe Tomaso had business ties with Shelby, so it is not surprising that the car was loaned out for Puplic Relations,
anybody knows if Italy has an Importeur for 65 / 66 Shelbys ?
The Test drive from Fangio should be known from the most of us but i hope to get some
new pics and content
The "LA Times" brought a Articel from a Italy Newspaper about a "Cobra-Mustang Test with Fangio"
i was not able to get the hole articel from the LA Times, but i found out the Articel was
released on 06 / 29 / 1965 ... so the Test with Fangio shortly befor
of the later relased Road & Track Articel in November 1965 it is known the
Photograph was a Pete Coltrinafter a long time of search i was very happy to find the original
film Negative of the shootings ... 35 Pics pure pleasure Thankfully i was allowed to show the negativ, for more information and the oppotunity
to geht larger pics and posters from the negatives look at the homepage
(please note the the Date 29 / 07 / 1965 cant be right, because of the LA Articel)
The Road & Track Articel researched the "LA Times" article or the Italian original article very well
and describes that various things like "Cobra-Mustang" or 3500 cc are simply wrong ...
even Fangio's lap time doesn't seem to be right
The Italian Verb "La Bugia ha le Gambe Corte" means "Lies have short legs" and
indicate that the italien Articel was not very well reported to the facts...
i also find a Mini Pic of De Tomaso with 5s114 on a later Articel,
argentinian auto magazine, the text has nothing to do with the test ...
By the way, it was not unusal that Fangio make test ride on the Modena race track
here you can see him on the track with Mercedes 600
Hope you enjoy and share your thoughts,
next step is to show some Magazin Test from the Car in Europe