Mystery solved. Shelby Trust to sell Real Cobras

[Trevor Legate]

I think the grids might be a bit sparse if they refuse the 'replicas' (Continuations etc etc) since how many owners, no matter how wealthy, decide not to risk their multi-million dollar investments ended up tangled in the armco? Every crash devalues the car a little. Thankfully there are owners prepared to take the risk, such as Shaun Lynn for example, with 2130. He drives it very very hard but takes proper care of it. He does it just to beat the new cars with their roller-rocker motors and 5-speed boxes (count the gear-changes!), sleeved chassis, trick suspension and so on.

The organisers know roughly what's fake and what's not. The joke that we had a TV programme here about the (new) E-types and when Lord March was asked if they would be allowed to race, he was standing in the Goodwood paddock just yards from that famous green and yellow 1965 Daytona (such history!) and that has to be the funniest thing I've seen. And he kept a straight face. (Maybe don't play poker with him)

At Goodwood you will see 'replacement' E-types, Astons, GT40s, mucho Cobra and even one very famous Ferrari GTO that was replicated many years ago - but you don't know about that so burn this posting after reading.....! And as for the six Daytonas - we could see at least ten of them in one race, possibly! They are coming! Unless somebody does the math.