Wyss, Legate, Friedman, Mills.. Where's the 427 book???

[Trevor Legate]

[quote=DTurnbull;853808

(PS - I just noticed the A98 pictures you posted. THANK YOU! God, that is one beautiful car!)[/QUOTE]

...to be joined by two more, one for the road, one for the track, some time soon!

[Woodz428]

Friedman?? Kinky Friedman?? I didn't realize he was a Cobra enthusiast. I bet he could write a great book about Cobras...

[A-Snake]

Originally Posted by Woodz428

Friedman?? Kinky Friedman?? I didn't realize he was a Cobra entusiast. I bet he could write a great book about Cobras...

I wonder if Kinky would put too much of a Texas spin to it?

[DTurnbull]

Originally Posted by Trevor Legate

...to be joined by two more, one for the road, one for the track, some time soon!

It's about time. Where do I order one?

[Jamo]

Trev...seems to me the tough market you describe may be due to folks writing and including glossy pics of the wrong Cobra model.

Ok...Baywatch. Anyone remember the names of any of the females besides Pamela Anderson? Anyone care if they were better swimmers?

[mrmustang]

Originally Posted by Jamo

Ok...Baywatch. Anyone remember the names of any of the females besides Pamela Anderson? Anyone care if they were better swimmers?

I had a thing for Nicole Eggert

[hey,littlecobra]

Yasmin Bleef or something like that.
excellent swimmer i'm sure, as well as some other lovely attributes.

(haha.... nice correlation. )

[Jamo]

Not trying to get off track, and while it does give some creedence to the commentary from Wally World, the fact is that Pam helped create an entire genre of houseboating videos.

I love all of the 289 variants...truth be told I like pre-Cobra ACs (I'd love to have a "moustache")...but the fact remains that an entire generation of folks (most of us here) grew up with the 427 cars firmly implanted in our minds, and it would be a good addition to have a book on them (rather than a chapter or two) on the shelf.

[1ntCobra]

We know that Dave Friedman has plenty of pictures of the small block cobras and gt-40's, but that should be expected as he was the official Shelby American photographer. Since Shelby did not actually race the 427 much (I think 3002 was only raced by the factory a handful of times), that could explain a minimal number of pictures of 427 cars on Dave's part. Perhaps many of the books with historical race pictures rely of getting pictures from Dave as sort of a easy place to get a good variety of pictures. So it might require a lot more work to track down a bunch of different photographers to get a decent enough collection of period 427 cobra pictures.

[Maricopa]

I want another book with just street cars in it. I get tired of leafing past all those beat-up race cars trying to find the pretty ones.

[Power Surge]

Originally Posted by Maricopa

I want another book with just street cars in it. I get tired of leafing past all those beat-up race cars trying to find the pretty ones.

The beat up race cars ARE the pretty ones.

(to me at least)

[computerworks]

Originally Posted by 1ntCobra

.... that could explain a minimal number of pictures of 427 cars on Dave's part.

I believe he left the company after 1965, so he was not really there for the majority of the 427 production run.

[1ntCobra]

Originally Posted by computerworks

I believe he left the company after 1965, so he was not really there for the majority of the 427 production run.

Hmm... Dave's Shelby GT40 book goes thru 1967.

[computerworks]

Originally Posted by 1ntCobra

Hmm... Dave's Shelby GT40 book goes thru 1967.

...it would have to, to make any sense.

[1ntCobra]

I guess I just assumed that Dave continued to be the official Shelby American photographer thru 1967 if his GT40 book ended in 1967.

[Trevor Legate]

There is a market, of course, but just how big a market? You also hit on another 'problem'; one person wants to see lots of yummy pics of beat up race cars, another wants luvverly coffee-table portraits of sexy mint road cars - would they (you) buy a book that had both..? And would they/you buy a book that included modern replicas or would you refuse to buy it if it did (you see the conundrum??) One good bit of news is that I can publish the book - I co-own the publishing business.

(To illustrate the problem - we recently published a very nice - I think - book about VWs (yeah I know) but we included every type. It was only later that we were told that people who buy books on the Beetle will not buy a book that showed pics of the Buses. And, of course, the Buses fans do not buy books that have pics of Beetles. And the Karmann Ghia crowd...well, you get the drift...)

And then of course we have to consider the 'Large Thunderbox Edition' for Jamo. Life is never straightforward.

[Maricopa]

My post demanding a street car book was tongue-in-cheek. Although I would love to have a street car only version I understand the reason it doesn't exist. I'd settle for just more pics of them please.

I own your book and Friedman's but yes I'd buy another that had a decent street car section....Even if it had fakey-doos in it.

Couldn't you just Scotchguard Jamo's book.

[ROSS WEAVER]

Trevor,

You have a PM.

[Trevor Legate]

Hi Ross - for a moment I thought I had a check for $200,000.... :-)

Maybe we could combine the two threads on this topic and produce 'The Pamela Anderson Guide to the Shelby Cobra 427' (subtitle: why the Cobra didn't need twin airbags). Now that's gotta sell.....and I'm up for it.

[DTurnbull]

I'd take anything, really. Regarding Pam, well, as they say: Cobras are like boobs - even the fakes ones are awesome!

As for your VW book, I have an Empi Sportster if you'd like pictures. (o\|/o)