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Four-Links – How to build the ultimate Cobra, FC Rolligon, GM diesel comix,...
* Much ado has been made on the ‘net these past couple weeks about Larry Ellison’s ultimate Cobra, built by Kirkham Motorsports, and Kirkham hasn’t been shy about letting the world see how it was...
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Where the law starts
Yesterday, we included the 1950 Mercury custom from Cobra in our list of lost and sometimes found Hollywood cars; today, in a bizarre coincidence, it’s in the news. The street rod (with “Awsom 50″...
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Muscle car history as seen through magazine ads
One thing worth keeping in mind about muscle car history is just how geared to the concept of youth these cars were when new. In fine consumerism tradition, Detroit took the freedom of cars, the...
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Spinout slipup: What car stood in for the wet Cobra?
So while researching CSX 3012, the 1965 Cobra that Elvis Presley drove in his 1966 film, “Spinout,” I noticed that the Cobra’s stunt double for the in-the-water scenes had about as much resemblance to...
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Bruce Larson’s Dragonsnake on the Market
Bruce Larson’s Dragonsnake Cobra – CSX 2093 – will be available for purchase once again. When last we saw it, Mecum Auctions had it at their annual Kissimmee, Florida, event held in late January. This...
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Itching to Own a Vintage Race Car?
Sox & Martin 1971 Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda Pro Stock To put it bluntly, vintage race cars are cool. Sure, they may not be for everyone, but they still make up a segment of the collector-car hobby that...
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SIA Flashback – Racing’s Back in the Bahamas
With news that the Bahamas Speed Week is being revived later this year, it’s just a little bit appropriate that we run David Brownell’s account on the first such Bahamas Speed Week revival, from SIA...
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Early Results from Mecum Kissimmee: Dragonsnake sells for $875,000
As of this writing, we have early results from Mecum‘s Kissimmee, Florida, sale from this past weekend. By Sunday morning (the last day of the auction), gross sales had surpassed $32 million; on...
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One-owner Shelby Cobra highlights this weekend’s The Branson Auction
Photos courtesy The Branson Auction It’s one thing to hold on to any car for 47 years without selling it. It’s another entirely to keep a Shelby Cobra for that long while waves of replicas flooded the...
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Toon Up! The automotive art of Mark Ervin
“High Flyin’ Moon Shot” by Mark Ervin. All images courtesy of Mark Ervin and Art-N-Motion. What might an animator’s dream job be? To work for Pixar or Disney? Maybe Marvel? How ’bout getting to...
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