This car was built for racing team run by JWA Racing in UK on a real Cobra chassis, sort of copying the Daytona coupe
when Shelby refused to sell them a coupe body.
The big differance in styling was the back backlite, it's not following body lines but inset similar to Ferrari 250LM.
A NZ mechanic of Shelby's went to England to help them build it. I think it raced both in the UK and in South Africa (where it was raced by Bob Olthoff).
My question is--the chain of owners--where as it passed from one to another, when it was lowest priced? I talked to a policeman's son via e-mail who says his father owned it when it was under $7,000 when it was just an old, dinged up race car.
Has there ever been ads in the motoring magazines back in the '60s offering it for sale?
I think it might be in the Shelby American Museum in Boulder, CO now.
Thanks for any good memories of this car which is chassis number CSX2130
Willment Cobra; real chassis, Daytona look alike body
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HistoryBuff
, May 11 2013 00:23
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RCH
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Posted 13 May 2013 - 06:57
I may be completely wrong but wasn't this car built up from the remains of the notorious AC Cars 1964 Le Mans entry?
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Ted Walker
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Posted 13 May 2013 - 06:59
It used to live in a friend of mines garden under a tree.
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Tim Murray
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Posted 13 May 2013 - 07:35
Here's an earlier thread on the car, which includes a list of previous owners:
Willment Coupé - photos needed
Willment Coupé - photos needed
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Hse289
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Posted 13 May 2013 - 09:37
Really Ted! did you take a picture? Love that car.
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Ted Walker
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Posted 14 May 2013 - 07:02
No I didnt think to .It was an "old racing car" as was the Ferrari Breadvan that took its place under the same tree,and later a GT40.
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Posted 21 May 2013 - 20:42
The history of 1964 Willment Daytona Coupe, CS2131, is described in an eight-page chapter in my book Shelby Cars in Detail, published by David Bull in 2008 and still available. After being sold by Willment in about 1967, it was converted to a street car; in the late 1970s it was restored for Amschel Rothschild and later owned by Frank Gallogly, George Gillett, and Rob Dyson before going to the Shelby American Collection in 1999. The car remains in the Collection here in Boulder, Colorado, though it is sometimes in the garage of its owner, Larry Miller Jr., in Utah. It has been maintained and repainted but never fully restored.
Frank
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