Doug,
I’m wondering if that is were Burtis lived? Good catch as I did not notice the address lol
I’ve owned three Contemporary Cobras and should have bought their last FIA when JM was selling it.
I'm not sure what "circles" he is out of? I don't know of anyone who knows or knew him personally. That cuts across a lot of demographic lines.
Some of the local parts guys knew of him and guys like Aleberto did also for the same reasons, i.e., buying parts from them.
The only business I did with him was buying a S/C pop-off gas filler cap assembly. In my experience, he was not a friendly guy.
I did a Google on him and nothing comes up locally.
Some results, sound like it could be him but are largely southern California, i.e., LA area results.
You've got me? Possibly someone at ERA would know about him? They were his competitors and the molds for these cars went somewhere and hardly would fit in the "garage" or the basement.
I don't know the entire story on the molding of the Daytonna coupe but I do remember some discussion about that about 1978 that was not complimentary to the owner who permitted that.
I only saw the one Daytonna Coupe and I know who purchased it and where it went to initially.
The owner isn't a know participant in local clubs, etc. His name was Stan and he owned a local deli and hung out with some of the Pro Stock guys. That right there is kind of an exclusive club and explains their attitude towards me?
When I got my C6FE 427 aluminum heads they were hurt and Diamond on LI was the one who fixed them. When I asked for a receipt, you had to hear the crap I had to take from them?
As far as they were concerned they were worth $.23 a pound in scrap. If in fact they actually knew what a GT40 was, that would surprise me, so it was kind of an equal stand off as to who was actually the numb nuts in the group. I vote them, BUT let bygones be bygones, right?
To Stan, both of those cars, the roadster and the Coupe were "real" Cobras so there was no point in talking to me about anything. They were both in PA the last I know of.
Cobra/Shelby circles then were strange here. We were largely blown off as kids/jerks and guys like Eber sucked all the oxygen out of the room, so in a lot of ways, I was kind of the perverbial "fly on the wall".
Interesting in who becomes the "surviors" though?