Tire tread tee-shirt part deux.

[Hammer65]

count me in for a couple of shirts when they're available

[Buzz]

I'm a bit crippled graphics wise at the moment - still replacing equipment and rewiring my office after a major electrical fubar. I have enough of my original cobra artwork on the old backup computer though to throw together an idea for the front. The first is an Adobe Illustrator rendering in 2 colors (black and red), followed by a nicer looking full color Photoshop enhanced version. The Cobra can be any color you want, with or without decals, etc.

[Blas]

As I recall, "Big Daddy" Don Roth sold a T-Shirt years ago with a tire tread and a big red splotch in the center. I believe it was called "Victim"

[Dangerous Doug]

my427cobra: Just noticed that you're in Arroyo Grande. I went to Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo (Man, I miss that town!), right over the hill. I keep wanting to get down there with my Cobra.

This shirt design is for a charity? I'm coming into the conversation a bit late. What's the charity?

DD

[my427cobra]

Hi Dangerous Doug. Yeah, this area is paradise. Look forward to seeing you down here some time. I think the Bay Area Cobra Club has a run down here in June.

Thanks for waking me up again on the tee shirts. Been busy on other things. The charity I suggested is Wounded Warriors.

I've talked with a number of tee shirt suppliers and an over the shoulder design would be difficult and expensive. So I'm going to try to take the various suggestions posted and come up with a design proposal.

I've played phone tag with Peter Brock ( to request his approval of the use of his design idea from the early 60's) but will try to reach him again today.

Cheers
Greg

[my427cobra]

Great stuff Buzz. Sounds like we're nearing a final design. I'm still in for doing the grunt work.

Cheers
Greg

[my427cobra]

Hi Doug D. The Registry shows Monza after Sebring but not Oulton Park.

Cheers
Greg

[my427cobra]

An after thought. Since we're listing the races, should the graphic be a Daytona instead of the roadster?

Greg

[MFE III]

my vote would be for the roadster.

[Buzz]

The coupe guys would be happy. Then again there's always the ultra-rare and elusive Daytona 427SC Roadster...

[DougD]

I found this site that appears to have the races, dates and results. It looks like Daytonas won most of the points, with 289 roadsters scoring some, too. But I'll be damned if I can figure out just what the definitive list of events and countries should be. Can anyone else make heads or tails out of this?

World Championship 1965

It looks like if we limit the list to races where the Daytonas finished highest, we get:
Daytona, USA
Sebring, USA
Monza, Italy
Spa, Belguim
Nurburgring, Germany
LeMans, France
Reims, France
Pergusa, Italy

Maybe we should use the Daytona-only list just through Reims, since that was when they reportedly had enough points to ensure the win. Not sure why SA entered a Daytona in the next race - maybe just to ensure the win after what happened in '64?

If we include all the races where Cobras, both 289 roadster and Daytona, scored points, we get:
Daytona, USA
Sebring, USA
Monza, Italy
Oulton Park, England
Spa, Belguim
Nurburgring, Germany
Rossfeld, Germany (Hillclimb)
LeMans, France
Reims, France
Pergusa, Italy
Ollon Villars, Switzerland (Hillclimb)
Bridgehampton, USA

I suppose there's some merit to the above post about using a Daytona on the front of the shirt if we only include the races where it competed.

Then again, we could use a 289 roadster and still be technically accurate. The roadsters did score some points, and the championship went to Shelby-American, not to just the Coupes.

I don't want to get too caught up in all this, but I really like the idea of a list of the races for the championship, and we should at least get the list right.

[fjrgary]

Roadster, roadster, roadster.

[my427cobra]

List all the races and a roadster it is. I'm good with that too.

Cheers
Greg

[Buzz]

Why not all 3? Make everybody happy. I already have a drawing of an FIA/USRRC, but I have to draw a Coupe. Could be done easily enough in a couple of days.

[DougD]

God, I wish I had a skill like that. Anything would do. Please?

[Buzz]

Next question - do we leave the 427 iconic and up front - but driverless - as a nod to the cars that did the actual championship racing?
I can stick a helmeted driver in there, but to me it blocks the roll bar and takes something away from the overall look.



Edit: heading should read - The coupe IS in the house

[DougD]

Buzz, I think it's perfect just the way it is.

[carmine]

Good quality material for shirts is in order

[MaSnaka]

This graphic looks awsome. I like it a lot! I just want to say because we ARE brainstorming ideas here...The graphic with the 3 cars and stuff, as a pocket patch is going to be pretty small compared to the large scale tire tread. It looks good enough to be the main feature on the back of the shirt. I think with the color it will be nicer looking than the tire tread with lettering on the back. Subsequently getting away from the original design. Would you be willing to just embelish the car graphic with some tire tread, scaled down, maybe to frame around it, and add the championships too. Put the whole enchilada in one picture graphic without the front pocket patch being so complex.

John

[Dwight]

I'm always looking for good t-shirts with Cobra themes.

keep me posted and I will let all the guys know. We have about 35 guys in North Ala group and we communicate with the Chattanooga Cobra Club everyday and they have over 40 members.

Dwight algunruner@aol.com