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Found a pic in an online norwegian Photo archive thanks to a hint to other shots. Obviously photographer Ola J. Borge worked for a freight company and may have received or taken himself some shots at DST in the days of the 1964 Ford Custom Car caravan. Amongst them a rare picture of the Cobra on the transporter.


Here is a pic of it during the FCC caravan from my archive.
https://mustanginside.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/where-is-the-dst-cobra-today/

They state this in the text. "Die Skala ist identisch zur original Shelby Skala, allerdings ohne redline."
means "Made identical to the original Shelby scale, yet without redline. "

Since this is advertised as a one-off ..maybe it ..could be also it was just restored and the face reprinted only. I have no further relation to that company, so do not know. 395CHF sounds reasonable.
200 km/h speedos typically go for 250-350 Euro.

BTW the C8ZF-17265 Kilo-N print is the same for the 68 200kmh speedo.
Tachman prints a label with KM-00X above the Miles-N imprint on his conversions.

The 1967-1978 Ford parts export list only lists a 200km/h speedo with an -H extension, no 240km/h speedo for 67/68, but obviously they exist. Congratulations.

Repros made in Switzerland
http://www.hub-raum.li/68-mustang-240.html

Nope, just some fortunate wannabees still have them thanks to Howard.
I prefer wannabee over "non-owning scum" as Rick put it ironically in his Pardee-article as the receipients of the additional copies:-)



Will PM you 6S1640 for a copy.

25 of those K-codes were done in wimbledon white at San Jose and sent to Shelby.
10 of them with standard cooling.
This is the one that has survived in Norway.

Good to see the 3 articles in higher res, I had them only in lower resolution from other sources.

I wonder a bit about the actual sale date 29.Sept.65 and AMS being published 02.Oct.

Obviously the car was driven by AMS at least 3 weeks before the 2nd. October. The normal publishing delay was about 2 weeks in those days (writing/editing/proofreading/print prep and finally printing and distribution and then subscribers got the mag typically a few days before the 2nd. Oct. Not important, but it would only tell that the car was sold to Filipinetti after the AMS actual test drive.
The article might have been written even earlier.

The car was later sold to 2 brothers who had it on display in their bar/pub/restaurant. I have the name, but I think they do not want their name here. For a long time the saying was that it was hanging under the ceiling, yet a friend from the swiss Mustang club told me after a visit at that time, that it was standing on its own wheels there together with other Shelby engines collected. Would be good to find pictures.

The car later was bought by the current owners - an italian family living in Switzerland which is listed in the registry.

The other journalist who wrote about 5S114 was Etienne Cornil, his pics appeared in Automundo, a dutch magazine (probably Autovisie) and a french one (L'automobile Aout 65). All 3 articles mention that the car "belonged" to De Tomaso at that time (Automundo was first July 28th, 1965). His pics are visible here at
https://www.facebook.com/archivodeautos/posts/1193353404034873/

Stephan, you may be right that the castle could be also an italian one, but since they are sourced from Autorevue/Switzerland based in Geneve, I still think they are from that area, maybe after it returned from Italy. I may review Bernard Cahiers written comment meanwhile on 5S114 back then, while I was in touch with him for other pictures.

Stephan, it is in my view rather likely that Peter Brock went via Geneve, as the car was "handled" by Ecurie Filipinetti soon after ...(dates to be researched) the pics in front of the stone walls appear also to be from the environment of the Filipinetti castle.  (check the castle environment from 1967 https://www.ina.fr/video/CPF07011761)
The car was also later picked up from magazines from Geneve/Filipineti. Aside from that most Shelbys in 1965 were adressed to and handled by Filipinetti and later Ford Performance Ltd. (founded by George) for central Europe. (with Intersport and FAV/Alan Mann being the others). The deal with the Ickx family was not closed, so Dubois got the the Benelux area.

The AMS article also speaks about picking 5S114 there in Geneve.

Bernard Cahier (SCG reporter in Europe) also mentioned that he had a hand on this car (5S114) in the travelling and coordination of the contacts with the press publications. Bernard was everywhere in the hotspots of Ford Performance including visits to Alan Mann, Goldfinger, later Grand Prix adventures and had as well a loaned Shelby in 66 (6S341 I think without reviewing again).
The reason for Brock going from Le Mans to Modena area lies most proably in the fact that the Daytona Coupes were made at Carrozeria Gransport which was across the street of the Ferrari body works Car. Fantuzzi.
Just to add a bit background.

@Richstang . Yes, digging through the Zwischengas.com archive requires a subscription, which I have. Yet subscribing means to accept and follow the copyright hints not to post them in public forums and since I grew up with that in my business, I try to stay away from that. Not saying that I have been clean for decades:-)

You can see some free of charge large original size pictures of 5S114 in the following link at the bottom in the photo gallery.. (Pic 15/16/17)
https://www.zwischengas.com/de/FT/fahrzeugberichte/Springende-Mustangs-Shelby-Bullit-und-Eleanor.html?gallery=on&from=bottomgalleryteaser#gallery-15

Quote from: Richstang on November 29, 2020, 09:25:34 PM

Thanks for posting these photos from the ?German Magazine?
What was the date of this issue?

#20/1965
October 1965

A dutch mag and the swiss magazine Autorevue (additional pics copyrighted in their DB www.zwischengas.com) covered it as well.

..located and in Sweden, found it in a swedish Club member registry  2014 with another owner and obvously user göranfor here owned it in 2019 restoring it.

Berry Plastics offered a rear bumper for 21 Dollar in 1965, 34 for a chromed one. Not sure if those have a connection.  I think Berry Plastics had a connection with Shelby amongst others via Alex Tremulis and regarding the spoiler offer. Vince Gardner and DST as well.

Very interesting...yet I wondered about the cut-out of the DSO71-2504 sheet and searched my files. In fact there are some not-available items listed underneath and there are some supplements with it provided back then by the source I obtained them from. I think the information is a bit incomplete, but there may be a reason.
I forwarded them to Howard for SAAC purposes..must have been mid 90ies and he mentioned he'd never seen them. Actually looking at the complete DSO sheets of 71-2504 and 71-2506 they were for R-codes is/was my understanding from the sources original mail.

Another pic in a Henri Chemin interview (Echappement Classique). In which he confirms the order of 2 Cobras for Jo Schlesser/Henri Greder.

Another photo from the Hazan Cobra book, the above pic of Schlesser/Vanson is also in there.

The author Hazan also writes that Henri Chemin ordered the car from SAI and it disembarqued in Orly/France November 2nd.