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30/03/2026 10:52 am
With the Shelby Cobra roadster aerodynamically limited on the long straights like Mulsanne at Le Mans when Ferrari's 250 GTOs had a 30 mph advantage, designer Peter Brock sat Ken Miles in drivers seat, reworked the steering and dash and then surrounded him with wooden bucks and then the crew hammered out the sheet metal that would become the first of 6 Daytona coupes built between 1964 and 1965. The remaining coupes were assembled in Modena, Italy. Powered by the same 390 HP 289 Windsor as the Cobra, Shelby sought to dominate the over 2.0 liter GT Class. Losing to Ferrari by only 6 points in1964, it crushed the competition in 1965, with class wins at virtually every European event in 1965, winning the International Championship For GT Manufacturers. But Shelby was then re-assigned to the GT40 program and Ford denied the desired upgrade to the 427 FE V8 wishing to concentrate solely on the GT40. Ford's manic desire to crush Ferrari in the prototype class meant that the Daytona Coupe racing days were over. Maybe saw the future for front engine GTs as bleak with the advent and success of new mid-engine cars, or he had Enzo Derangement Syndrome and just couldn't be bothered. Who knows. Here's a pair of Exotos that I found pics of. All my pics were on Google's Picasa platform that they unceremoniously dumped and I'm having a hard time finding a lot of files. I'm glad I at least found the red car of the Swiss Scuderia Filipinetti race team as well as this Standox Chromillusion one.
30/03/2026 11:06 am
"All my pics were on Google's Picasa platform that they unceremoniously dumped....."
OUCH! 😬 😬 😬
Nice post anyway, it's a really cool model. I bought one but gave it away as a gift. I'm surprised I like that "crazy colored one" as much as I do. Perhaps it's your photography skills! 🤔 🤔
Frank's got what.... a hundred of these? 😉 😏 😉
30/03/2026 11:21 am
@chris I know this is a 1/18 section but thought you might enjoy. I just got these two but in 1/64 scale; they are extremely well done; easily the best detail of all my 1/64s. Same model/manufacturer.....different colors.
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30/03/2026 12:15 pm
@chris Released almost 30 years ago (1997), these Exotos still hold up well.... and they were under $100 to boot!
30/03/2026 1:49 pm
Really gorgeous Exoto models of this racing automobile and especially so in this color. One of my friends had an Exoto diecast of this replica and it photographed superbly.
30/03/2026 2:16 pm
@jack-dodds Oh yes thanks, I saw these when posted about 10 days ago; 1/64 continues to excite! 😎 😀
30/03/2026 5:10 pm
Did somebody mention Exoto Daytona Coupes?
31/03/2026 10:11 am
Everybody has to have an obsession, Daytona Coupes are mine. I have at least one example of every livery that the Daytona Coupes carried in every FIA race they competed in during the 1964 & 1965 seasons. Unlike most racing today, the numbers on the cars changed with every race. I used mostly Exoto models to make the car models of all the cars Exoto didn't make themselves - As an example, this is all the different livery that CXS2299 the most honored of the six coupes produced carried in its two years of racing
I do believe I have the most complete collection of these cars in the world - and likely the only one in the world who was interested in collecting it - LOL
31/03/2026 5:28 pm
...as I noted above, "Frank's got a hundred of these!" 😀 😉 😏 😎
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31/03/2026 9:40 pm
@franklemire "48 more?" HA! You'll have that by Labor Day! 😏
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