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Old 09-20-2010, 02:00 PM
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Default Found a new "old" model, mistaken label methinks

On someone else's photos of the Shelby american collection museum I saw a nice model car box pictured (proably 1/24th scale) with the cover of a blue DeTomaso 70P show car. Ironically the box /model is labeled "King Cobra."
On the box it is shown the dark blue of 1965 Cobra livery.

I can only conclude that the japanese heard that Shelby was making a Can-Am style car in conjunction with DeTomaso and the Japanese model maker saw pictures of it, and figured he was already running some mid-engined Coopers with Cobra V8s called King Cobras so that this was going to be the next body style.

Either that or Shelby or Pete Brock told them it was going to be the King Cobra back when Shelby was still planning on taking delivery. As it turned out, Shelby pulled out his funds and DeTomaso introduced it as the 70P.

I always thought there was only one but now heard there may be as many as three, though which ones are original era and which ones built later on is a mystery yet to be solved.

Anyhow, in the model car world I figure this must be like one of those
upside down airplane stamps--the mistakes are worth keeping.

If anyone can post a picture of the box cover, this will help
solve the mystery of how a model maker got it wrong...
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