11-13-2003, 11:32 AM
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Thanks, Ron, for putting that up. I think people have a tendency to want to contrast the Daytona with the Ford GT and that really is not a fair comparison. The Daytona was an incredible car, given the very limited R & D and $$$ that were used to construct it. This was a "shoestring" budget project when compared to the GT program, where Ford spent millions of dollars in trying to perfect the GT. Remington was working with Eric Broadley as early as '63 on that project and it didn't bear fruit until '66.
The Daytona, on the otherhand, was done in-house with virtually no input from Ford (probably to the better) and the panels were either hammered out at Cal Metal Shaping or by Grand Sport in Italy (a deal arranged for Shelby by De Tomaso) and sat on an original roadster chassis with an extra brace. The contrast between the two cars couldn't be more different from a technological standpoint, and yet, the Daytona gave the U.S. the only Manufacturers trophy in its history
Last edited by Cal Metal; 11-13-2003 at 12:03 PM..
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