Covettes and Cobras still meet the first Saturday of the month in the Costco parking lot by Starbucks

Someone has burned their legs, and isn't going to let that happen again

Cool new photos from Cay Broendum

from http://caybroendumsparetime.blogspot.com

Shelby AC Dragonsnakes

Ed Hedrick pistured above in the (fuchia or magenta yuck) dragonsnake that put the AC Cobra into the national records for winning A B and C/sports for 1963 and 1964

Available in 1963, sold with 23 options designed specifically for drag racing. The 289 cu in engine was availble in 4 stages of performance, 271, 300, 325 and 380 horsepower

AC Cobra trivia

According to an article in Cruisin' Style magazine,

there are 6 known original owner 289 Shelby AC Cobras

Dean Jeffries, pinstriper and custom car bulder, Oakland Roadster Show winner

I was just reading an article about Dean and the Mantaray, and learned that he travelled to Indy for the 500, and on year, pinstriped 2/3rds of the race cars

James Dean was one of his early customers, and Jeffries painted "Little Bastard" on the Porsche 550 Spyder that Dean owned.

Agajanian took Jeffries to the 1952 Indy 500, Mobil Oil, noticing his unusual painting and pin striping style, hired him in the following years to paint any of the Indy race cars. It was free to the teams and Mobil got their logo somewhere on the car. Jeffries would paint and pin stripe the cars and helmets of race car drivers like Jim Rathmann, Parnelli Jones, and A. J. Foyt, and become Foyt's paint and body man.

After that, in 1962, he worked for famous race car designer and builder Carroll Shelby on the Cobra.

Dean's show car, Mantaray, first appeared at the 1964 Oakland Roadster Show where it won the Tournament of Fame First Prize. The smallblock Ford engine & 4-speed trans came directly from Shelby as partial payment for work Jeffries had done and to this day that Cobra engine has just a few miles on it.

For more about Dean Jeffries, mostly photos of his pinstriping, Krazy Shirts, and his magazine advertisements: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Dean%20Jeffries

Barnfind Shelby AC Cobra, and a one owner, less than 7.4 thou miles '62 Benz 300SL roadster getting auctioned by Gooding Jan 21st

Said to be the only unrestored Cobra in blue and red livery, the '64 AAC Cobra spent 33 years in "storage" yet comes off as surprisingly lustworthy in spite of that. It began life as Carroll Shelby's promo car at SoCal racing venues, was pulled from the deeep barn sleep to do the 2010 Pebble Beach

from http://www.autoblog.com/2010/12/15/gooding-unloads-its-time-capsule-cars-for-its-2011-scottsdale/

great heavens! A DragginSnake!

From the fantastic collector of awesome dragracing images: http://magneticbrain.blogspot.com/

Vintage photographs of racing Cobras

What the hell is the above Cobra doing with a frickin' LUGGAGE RACK?

Photos from http://5window.tumbler.com/

Here is a quick sample of what you'll see in the pits at Speedfest

The above is rare, it's a air cooled opposed piston engine like the VW... DB is the symbol on the nose of the car... stands for Duetsch something... I can't recall, but it was a French company and it was made for rally racing.

Above is a Railton

Lagonda

Big corrals of race cars!

Quite a variety of photos at Flavien Dachet, mostly rare exotics

the above is a junkyard display

I posted a quick before and after of this cool racecar: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/take-52-buick-and-lot-of-effort-make.html

Images via: http://flaviendachet.blogspot.com/

Racing in Lima Peru, late 60's early 70's

2 of the 5 Shelby G.T350 R imported to Lima, Perú in the mid 60`s for racing purposes. 1 got totalled, 3 were sold to private collectors in the US and the last one is still missing.

via: http://vandernotte.tumblr.com

Bizarre variety of photos from 5window tumbler, a lot of cool stuff though

For another shot of this Cobra, and a write up, see http://magneticbrain.blogspot.com/2010/03/bit-player.html

more at http://5window.tumblr.com/