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Showing posts with label Comet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comet. Show all posts
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Some cool drag racing machines, and other cool stuff at the 66 NHRA nationals
0 comments Posted by st at 11:39 AM
The Tameless Tiger
Stone Woods and Cookie, the black car
The gasser passer and on the hauler truck, it says something under that, "worlds wurst wave?"
Don Prudhomme and the B&M Torkmaster
Thursday, April 7, 2011
the El Cajon cruise on every Wednesday night is back on for the summer, here are some of the interesting things I saw
0 comments Posted by st at 10:01 PM
Everytime I see the El Guapo taxi I notice something new, this time I found the rear license plate cool... for the galleries I took of it last year so you can see the interior and the progession : http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/02/another-look-at-el-guapo-paint-has-been.html 
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Shelby Comet. Never heard of that, have you? Did you hear of the Shelby Europa? 14 made
0 comments Posted by st at 2:23 PM
Shelby Europa were just getting started by Claude Dubois, who raced a Ford of Antwerp Shelby Gt 350 in Spa in 1967. They came directly from Ford as semi-finished and completed by Dubois. Now it was not very many, 1971 and 72 made a total of just 14 pieces, including two convertibles.There are eight survivors, three of were in Sweden, then Norway, then to Finland.
Well, so was there a special European-Shelby prototype, GT250, a 1971 Mercury Comet that Claude supplied with a GT40 289 block and heads, that gave the car more than 350 horsepower. It was a couple of years as Claude's own daily driver before being resold.
Claude was in Dearborn when Ford announced the cessation of the Shelby Fords, and so bought the last 34 or 36. He sold them in Belgium, Paris, Istanbul, Geneva and Germany
Read his 2002 interview here: http://www.ponysite.de/sheleur_dubois3.htm
After 1970 Claude proposed a licensing deal, and bought Mustangs from Bob Ford in Detroit, the first was completed in January 1971 and went to the Brussels Motor show. The Shelby parts came from Shelby American. Some had 351's and at least one was a drag pack 429 http://www.ponysite.de/sheleur.htm
Learn about the Mexico Shelby Mustangs here: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/02/shelby-de-mexico-i-finally-learned-of.html
Friday, December 3, 2010
The Rosedale Rocket, from Snoke's Metal Shed, a recently altered wheel base Comet built in just 2 years
0 comments Posted by st at 8:48 PM
awesome hood.
I doubt I'm alone in having one word to describe the way this looks. Dammit. You can see the build process http://public.fotki.com/teddisnoke/the-rosedale-rocket/ or read a thread the owner is a part of discussing 64/65 Comets http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=335534&page=89
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