1965 Cobra Daytona Coupe: Overview

Getting started on the Model Factory Hiro kit (the old kit in 1/24 scale, not the new monster in 1/12) of the 1965 Cobra Daytona Coupe.

 

   

Sexiest car on the planet in my view, just edging out the GTO.

 

I'm going for CSX 2601, the 7th place finisher (first in the 3.0+ class) at Nurburgring, driven by Bob Bondurant and Jochen Neerpasch. 

 

Neither CSX 2601 or CSX 2286 managed to finish at Le Mans that year, although Jack Sears and Dick Thompson managed 8th overall (first in the 5-litre class) in the AC Cars entry. Of the Shelby American cars, one suffered a broken crankshaft, the other a blown head gasket -- sounds like someone got a little over-enthusiastic on the compression ratio. 

 

 

This was also the year that Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart finished 10th in the Rover-BRM turbine car, a car that I would dearly love to build a model of, if there were such a thing, which there isn't. I once owned a Rover 2000 TC, the piston-engined version of one of the later Rover turbine car prototypes; and McGill Mechanical Engineering had a functioning Rover turbine engine upon which students such as myself ran a heat and mass balance as part of the undergraduate thermodynamics labs. But I digress.