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The one and only genuine 'Ken Miles Cobra'. Six 289 cu. in.The most famous, significant and without question  most successful Shelby Cobra ever. Six similar 289 cu in. roadsters were built for the Shelby Racing Team in those years, but # 98 ( Ser.# CSX 2431 )  was his car, in which he won numeroous races, including Meadowdale near Chicago where I got to meet him and chat with him. Between races he tested and helped develop many of the details and mods which enabled the Shelby Team to win the SCCA championship.

The car was sold when it was retired to make room for the 427 cu.in. Cobras, but the Shelby organization re-purchased the car a few years ago and completely restored it, since a series of private owners had inflicted all kinds of indignities, including several repaints, upon this historic and important car which wiped away most of the history, patina & personality of the car.............what a piece of automotive history.

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The infamous Nor-Vin -- cafe machine, Norton chassis, Vincent motor

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15 hours ago, John Z. Goriup said:

All the things I dislike about the latest generation of hibrid, computerized 'supercars' and all the negative feelings I harbor towards those horrible 'appliances' can be multiplied several times over re most modern 'superbikes'. Give me the charm, predictability, performance and balanced handling of a properly set-up & well sorted vertical twin like a Dunstall-Norton, Enfield, Triumph or BSA anytime.

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Ah, die Bosheit der toten Sachen. After years & years of passionate collecting, you finally decide to bite the bullet and join the top ranks of collectors, spend several million on one of the 19 Ferrari Barchettas ever produced, probably spend close to another million restoring and sorting it to assure that it's good enough to earn that elusive invitation to the worls foremost Concours d'Elegance .........and then this; it overheats and bursts its radiator hose while idling & looking for its assigned spot - a whole different level of motor mania.

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Love the Silver Arrows. This gathering was at Goodwood.

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1067 Bizzarruni P538.  Same car at the NY International Auto Show in 2018, and again at its "home" in the Simeone Museum in Philadelphia

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Just as it should be

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3 hours ago, pedaes said:

Just as it should be

 

Would you please explain what you mean by that.

Hiles is correct, that is a Mercedes 300 SLR, in fact it's the sister car to the Moss / Jenkinson Mercedes 300 SLR which won the race, the '55 Mille Miglia. The numbers assigned to the cars in the Mille Miglia back then actually reflected the start times of the car for timing and score-keeping purposes since the Mille Miglia was run TT style with cars taking off individually at fixed intervals. Juan Manuel Fangio, driving alone,  took of in the car shown above at 6:58. Moss and 'Jenks' started at 7:22, i.e. half an hour later, hence the famous number 722 on the Moss / Jankinson car, but managed to pass and beat Fangio, who finished in 2nd place, by over half an hour.

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10 hours ago, John Z. Goriup said:

Would you please explain what you mean by that.

Hiles is correct, that is a Mercedes 300 SLR, in fact it's the sister car to the Moss / Jenkinson Mercedes 300 SLR which won the race, the '55 Mille Miglia. The numbers assigned to the cars in the Mille Miglia back then actually reflected the start times of the car for timing and score-keeping purposes since the Mille Miglia was run TT style with cars taking off individually at fixed intervals. Juan Manuel Fangio, driving alone,  took of in the car shown above at 6:58. Moss and 'Jenks' started at 7:22, i.e. half an hour later, hence the famous number 722 on the Moss / Jankinson car, but managed to pass and beat Fangio, who finished in 2nd place, by over half an hour.

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I was referring to the exhaust burns on the paintwork.

Jenk's report in Motor Sport of their victory is a great read. When Moss and Jenks appeared at Goodwood in 722 a few years ago,  he had his famous home made 'toilet-roll' pace notes machine with him. Trust it is in good hands, hopefully in the Mercedes Museum.

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810 Cord in Fransschoek Motor Museum, SA

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Another supercar on the street that Saturday morning in Boston.  Koenigseg

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Porsche Centre Silverstone, 2011.

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