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Lucky goes for the podium

February 13, 2010

When we posted the first in car video of Gary Faules piloting Lucky at the 2007 La Carrera, a few readers had a hard time grasping the speed of the event. For this next video we’ve decided to skip right to the final day of competition, where Gary gives Lucky the GT350 all he’s got [...]

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Shelby gallery at Toronto Autoshow

February 12, 2010

As a kid, the thing I remember more than anything about going to the Toronto Autoshow was checking out all of the race cars that were inevitably on display. For more than a few years, cars of interest to a kid that is into racing have been sadly sparce. This year though, the Canadian International [...]

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In car video of Lucky the GT350R attacking Mil Cumbres

February 8, 2010
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The La Carrera Panamericana open road rally is a throwback to an earlier time. With real cars running on real roads, the La Carrera route follows pretty much the same path that crews took back in the Fifties. Over the years, La Carrera has also gained a reputation for being one of the most challenging [...]

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Images from the 1965 Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport

February 3, 2010

While searching for a photo to accompany Leighton’s story about the early days of race control, I came across this great set of black and whites from the Canadian Grand Prix on September 25, 1965. These shots, added to the CMSHG galleries by Rob North, are actually scanned from a contact sheet. I love the [...]

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Shelby related quote of the day

January 27, 2010

“When you write the serial number in pencil you can do pretty much anything you want”
George Daszkowski on the provenance of some of the Shelby/Comstock race cars we’ve been discussing today.

Photo courtesy of Fotki user Kurzheck

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Comstock and the Shelby connection

January 27, 2010

As our regular readers know, there was a bit of a kaffuffle (is that a word?) raised when the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame announced that Carroll Shelby would be inducted into a new International category. Out of that induction has come some great conversations about the history of Shelby American and their involvement with [...]

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Shelby 427 Cobra prototype going to auction

December 5, 2009

We’ve had some pretty cool Shelby stuff come through The Garage over the past couple of days, so this fits right in with the theme lately.
Ontario based RM Auctions has announced a rather special Shelby car will cross the auction block at the Automobiles of Arizona at the Biltmore Resort in Phoenix on January [...]

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The story of the once missing Cobra Daytona Coupe

December 4, 2009

While I was researching our story on the Essex Wire Cobra, I came across the story the other missing Cobra of significance: CSX 2287. I actually vaguely recall reading this way back in 2001, but this time I read the whole story. There is so much intrigue here you could write a movie script around [...]

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Essex Cobra: the story of CSX 3009 begins

December 4, 2009

The story of Ford’s battle for sports car racing supremacy against Ferrari in the mid Sixties is legenday. Much has been written on it, often by greater historians than I. I’m happy to bring the story of just one car. CSX 3009. The winningest Cobra of all time.
When talks with Ferrari broke off, Ford decided [...]

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The winningest Shelby Cobra ever lives on

December 1, 2009

At the Toronto Indy this past summer, there was a buzz in the Time Warp Racing paddock that there was an original Cobra in the field. I was told that I had to see the car, because it was beautiful. I trundled over to the Legendary Motorcar trailer and started poking about. It was indeed [...]

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