Phil Spectors cobra daytona
 

Can anyone post a picture of the cobra daytona when Phil Spector owned it.

It was in 'Car & Driver' magazine, within the last year or so... will see if I can find it tonight/post tomorrow. I think the article was titled 'Found - the last Daytona Coupe' or something like that.

Found some pictures at

http://www3.telus.net/public/flucas/daytona3.htm

I thought the C&D issue had a picture of him standing by the car.


Dan

Thanks Dan, for the response.

PDHse,

Check the link I added to my earlier post above

Dan

I did and i am, lots to look at there, thanks Dan.

Here is the "Car and Driver" photo...

http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...822spector.jpg

Do a search here on CC for CSX2287. This is the 'lost Daytona' that has been written about over the last year here on CC.

Great picture Dan, i,ve never seen a picture of the coupe with street exhausts,good find.
John, i did a search and i agree with a lot of club cobra members it would be great to leave the body as found.I wonder whats happening to it now as regards to restoration?

Thanks, I'll take that as a compliment :D (the links to my page). I would love to see 2287 stay "as is" too, be a shame to wash/polish away all it's history. Bet there's still bonneville salt stuck in the fender wells.

Francis "Turbo II"

There was a documentry about Phil Spector on TV a couple of weeks ago,they did show a photo of Phil with The Daytona in the background

snicker......

Where are the bullet holes?

Scott S

Money Is No Indication Of Having Taste!:JEKYLHYDE

Anybody know the outcome of Phill's trial?

Hung Jury. Going to retrial.

I'm going to throw a rock here.....makes for interesting conversation.
Why leave the car like it is? From memory ( I don't have a SAAC Bible at work) the car was re-painted and had the motor swapped before it went to Spector. Why preserve the car from a time period when it was owned by a wack-job(sorry Phil)? I agree it is really, really cool to have a little of that "barn find" patina, be come on folks, this is a $10 million dollar car. Give it a paint job for god sakes!!!

Really, it is neat but it does not reflect the car's livery from it's time at Bonneville I don't believe.

Just my two cents...
They are only original once and this one is beyond that period....

MC

There was a posting here recently about 2287 being restored by a shop that restored GT40s and Corvette Grand Sports. The restoration shop was eventually going to show their work on 2287 on their website.

Anyone know any details about what was done?

I think it's fine to leave it just the way it was when Phil owned it. It STILL had the Bonnevile speed records listed on the side of the car when it was 'abandoned'. It STILL had the original tires. It STILL had original 'dirt'. As I understand it the car is not going through a 'restoration' it's more of a 'freshen up' to the condition it was in at the time of it's storage. Phil quit driving it largely because it was still a 'race car', loud, stinky exhaust, hot, uncomfortable, barely street legal. You can see the sidepipes were left mostly intact and modified to exit the rear of the car.

Many of the Cobras and other cars went through various 'periods', different paint, different numbers, etc. You need to pick a time frame and work toward a restoration/freshen up that fits a particular time frame.

http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...0csx2287_2.jpg

Hi Turbo II...Sorry to disposses you of your personal feelings about the condition of Daytona Coupe CSX2287's exterior "authenticity" and "history", "complete with salt residue from Bonneville", but nothing on the car's exterior surface is actually "real" from the Shelby area. After it estabished that amazing set of FIA speed records on the salt the car was returned to SAI where Carroll Shelby was appalled at it's condition. (He'd sent it to Bonneville in Concour's form, having just taken it off the Ford "Total Performance" show tour. He actually offered the car to anyone in the shop who might want it, for a paltry $800! Everyone turned the deal down! So over the next few weeks it was rebuilt and placed on the market. The car was eventually purchased by slot car magnate Jim Russel of Russkit, who drove it on the street daily for about two years. He then sold it to Phil Spector who then totally screwed it up with a "new" paint job of the wrong color with wrong dimension stripes and false signage on the door proclaiming it had a 427 engine and some other malarky. He also added the bogus exhaust. So when the car was rediscovered after all these years everybody assumed it was somehow "original", just as it might have been if purchased from Shelby. The truth is Shelby's crew would NEVER have let a car leave the shop looking as it did. So all the so-called "patina" of it's present condition is wrong. Badger