UNRESTORED FIA COBRA
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- We're back at the @ShelbyAmericanInc collection in Boulder, Colorado with Steve Volk talking about one of the rarest Shelby Cobra's ever made! One of the most desirable of all Cobras, CSX2345 was one of five 289 “FIA” roadsters. The museum’s most original competition car has survived unscathed for 50 years, just as it was when Bob Bondurant booted it up the hill at Rossfeld in southern Germany on June 13, 1965 for the GT win. Along with the six Cobra Daytona Coupes, these cars are credited with winning the World Manufacturers Championship in 1965, a “first” for an American car.
CSX2345 was the last of the original five built, and remains one of only two left in existence today, and the only un-restored team car still in the same condition from its last race (and the museum intends to leave it that way). This car participated in every event the roadsters entered in the 1964 European FIA season, and won the Sierra Montana Hill Climb, and the Freiberg Hill Climb as well with Bob Bondurant at the wheel, setting a new course record. It was the only Team Shelby roadster entered in the world championship in 1965, and ended its FIA career with seven races and five wins - more than any other Cobra. CSX2345 won 1st in Class and the overall Post-war Preservation Class at the 2012 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.
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Thanks, Steve and Petersen Automotive! Very interesting history of the car and an awesome presentation.
I loved the smile on Steve's face when he fired it up! :)
You know that they prepped the car beforehand right ?
@@danb.3397Certainly. Regardless, Steve's smile was great when he started it up.
RIP Bob Bondurant and thank you for the great achievements and memories. Being a Ford fan, I was delighted to have Shelby woo you away from racing Corvettes to become a famous Cobra driver and winner.
That Cobra has the best drivers in its history, too cool. 😎👍🇨🇦
The way it started! Wow!
I think I would pay them to work there ! What a car ! What a collection !
We looked at buying Dan Gurney's Targa Floria FIA car in about 1973 in New England--for $10,000. The underside was scraped up from his off, and it would have cost a lot to convert to street legal. Despite my desperate pleading, my buddy walked away and bought a street 427 instead. But, what a ride the guy gave us! The tires spun freely at the slightest provocation. I still have a fading polaroid snapshot of Gurney's FIA car--and a seared memory of it's brutal quickness.
Thanks for the start up Steve! I've never seen a Cobra with such provenance. Great story.
She is beautiful with all her character over the years absolutely a keeper
I agree Harry
LOVE this...with EVERYTHING restored to the 9s these days its great to see original stuff!
Meh.. The "Original" look of this car is gone. What you see is "original" decay. When something is "restored", it means to the "original" condition, and or look/appearance. Here is a good example of what I'm talking about: ruclips.net/video/1hyA-0pJ9d0/видео.html
Nice presentation of this historical treasure. Thanks for starting her up.
Multiple ear and eye gasms.....ty tyvm
A real racing Classic 😊😊beautiful Cobra FIA especifications 😊😊❤❤❤
So nice to see it un-restored and simply maintained.
I love stories like these. What an amazing piece of history.
The trunk story reminds me of the scene in Ford v Ferrari. Wonder how many times the trunk lids had to be “modified” to meet regulations?
Great movie!
Absolutely incredible. I can’t believe this car exists. Wow!
When you fired her up you can tell by the smile on your face how much you genuinely enjoy these trophies of years gone by. There is nothing these days that overshadow those cars that were designed with a pencil and paper, the only apple at those times is something you ate, and the skilled men who build them. Sad that those days are gone forever but thanks to you we can still see and hear them.
You have to appreciate the raw state of these cars and the men that drove them to victory. This was a simpler time when pioneers like Shelby along with mechanics , designers and drivers paved the way in road racing . They provided a lot of information to the big auto manufacturers in improving their own development of future cars for both the street and road racing . It’s a bygone era never to be repeated.
Wow still starts at the touch on a button! Beast car!
Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to make this video. I absolutely loved watching it!!!
Sounds really Good.
Thank you! Made my day!
Dam,she started right up! And with 60 year old fuel lines too!
Very cool!!!!
Great video thank you
How this only has 15k views is beyond me
That's crazy. Wow!
Just wow
I recall an episode of Get Smart, where I think I saw this car last. It had the hood open with Webers displayed. It also had those white magnesium wheels.
Great car. Greater number!
glorious
So you allow tours of your facility?
I am in Fort Collins,
Very wonderful story and equipment
Beautiful Cobra. It's crazy!! how expensive a Real Cobra Csx price tag is. Love these cars tho. They're awesome 👌
what a treasure!
Alucinante
Great history! Would be cool if you had the unrestored CSX2287 Daytona coupe next to it.
Man I was waiting with baited breath to hear the story of how that thing stayed in its 1965 configuration all these years,,, how did that happen and why somebody just parked it and never touched it,,,, what's the story ???
Lot of tumes, these guys knew exactly how important these cars were. They put em away for us to see later.
Same thing as with the Mary Stuart 911s.
They knew
@@jamessutherland5107 Oh yeah,, it could have been that, could have been many things, whatever the reasons were I'd like to hear the story...
I had entered a raffle to win a replica and was reading all about those. Not mentioned was the fact that the rear fenders were bigger to accommodate the wider wheels and it was an FIA regulation that the fenders had to cover the wheels.
The other one is owned by a guy named “Mr. cobra” Who had the foresight to buy a wrecked one and rebuild it.
Can you imagine what those are worth today? They were just old worn out race cars then.
My favorite story though involves the cobra Daytona coupe at the end of the 65 season.
They had just won the FIA championship but Ford was telling Shelby to forget his cobras and concentrate on making the GT 40 a winner.
And Allen Mann was running the cobra team in the 65 season and at the end he had five or six cobra Daytona coops sitting in England and Shelby had no interest in spending the money to bring them back.
And since they would be taxed by UK law shall be told Allen to simply put them on a barge with the taxman and dump them in the ocean.
And Allen did not have the heart to do that so at his own expense he put them on a ship to send back to California. They just rode on the top of the ship exposed to the elements.
And of course that’s another legendary car but the subject of another story
That must've been like a Mazda miata with a 454 back then. Power to weight for days.
Oh if that car could talk, what stories it would tell? but it was good with letting you tell the story about it's incredible life. and it said thank you in it's own voice by firing right up. I had no doubt it would after all it's a Ford, and a very special one at that.
I like the side dumpers
I could marry this car
I drive a completely unrestored 2015 Corolla. A silver one. How many of those do you see a day?
Thankfully, it didn’t get restored.
Phil Hill was the greatest, hands down
"I'll take it!"
does it still run? I'm guessing not.
I've seen the other FIA Cobra and sure those in that league know who own it.
my god
The condition considering the international racing history
😍 👍
Is that the car that was once owned by Ken Ebber?
Nuttin else sounds like a Webber carb'd Ford small block.
if only there were no ropes, like the Lane Motor Museum. Or at least a bigger building so the ropes can be farther away (better picture taking ability)
Remember, they’re only Original Once.
Sounds like an 8 cylinder Merlin. :-D
Unrestored doesn't mean you can't wash the goddamn thing.
best way to avoid crashes, is be in the lead
many of these cars went, only 5 made.
The speedo shows 1/10 of one mile.
Aw jeeezz-stop with the cleaver photography that you think is so whitty. Just photograph the car and stop with the panning closeups.
This guy speaks PAINFULLY SLOW.
Deadly Sweet. Also check out here on YT "The Widest V8 MGB GT In The World" Modeled after a Group 5 car.
Aside from the fact that this guy is the worst speaker in the world he also doesn't understand what 'unscathed' means ¿`_