Cobra Csx2000 Painted Different Colors
This weekend’s Pod Rods goes upside bottomward a few times with Jay Leno, checks out a animated new Ford and the aboriginal of its affectionate Cobra, and finds out how Jacksonville’s aspirant in aftermost week’s Great Chase concluded up.
Plus there’s the car accident calendar.
-- Ford is alms a new adaptation of its 2017 GT supercar - a limited-edition Heritage affair anniversary the GT40 Mark II apprenticed to achievement by Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon at Le Mans in the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans ability race. The Ford GT ’66 Heritage Edition is done in Shadow Atramentous with appearance or matte finish, additional argent stripes and apparent carbon fiber. The car sports a white No. 2 on the awning and doors, and 20-inch jumpsuit artificial aluminum auto in a gold glassy clearcoat with atramentous lug nuts. Like the 1966 chase car, the council caster is covering wrapped, with bench belts featuring a altered dejected webbing.
-- Speaking of Fords, one of the best important Ford-engine sports cars is activity up for bargain by RM Sotheby’s during its Aug. 19-20 bargain during the Pebble Beach Concours in California – the allegorical CSX2000, aka the aboriginal Shelby Cobra.
Built by a Texas craven agriculturalist and chase car disciplinarian bigger accepted as Carroll Shelby, it’s a bit altered than the AC Cobras that would follow. There’s alone a 260-cubic-inch V-8 beneath that awning instead of a 289 or 427, and it rides on angular cross-ply tires. The dejected 2-seater was endemic by Shelby himself, acclimated for testing and Cobra development and loans to car magazines for reviews, one of which declared it hit 60 mph in 4.2 seconds. It was additionally acclimated for promotions, corrective altered colors to accomplish association accept there was added than one Cobra. Yes, it shows its age, with some accident to the dejected paint, while the autogenous has some broken leather. But that’s the way it has aged, and its original. will bargain off CSX2000 alongside a cardinal of added historically cogent Shelby Cobras
The Carroll Hall Shelby Trust is affairs CSX2000, based on what Ol’ Shel wanted, according to RM Sotheby’s. Here’s an RM Sotheby’s video on the car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2RDT8u4FXY
-- There’s addition supercar out there from Poland, and it took allotment in aftermost weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed’s Michelin Supercar Run up Lord March’s driveway hillclimb. The Arrinera Hussarya GT ancestor was the aboriginal Polish car to circuit its tires on the acclaimed Goodwood Hillclimb. It has a carbon cilia anatomy on a tubular spaceframe/rollcage. That anatomy was advised by Warsaw Technical University assistant Janusz Piechna. The ancestor was congenital to FIA GT blueprint with a 6.2 liter V-8 agent authoritative 420- to 650-hp, depending on accompaniment of tune. The Hussarya GT chase car will be followed in backward 2017 by a road-legal trackday version, again a street-legal Hussarya 33.
-- The Jacksonville aggregation in the 33rd anniversary Hemmings Motor News Great Chase came bottomward with a aperture caster butt in the second-to-last day of the 2,500-mile-long archetypal car assemblage from San Mateo, Calif. to Moline, Ill. aftermost Sunday. And admitting the disability to antecedent the allotment for Jacksonville disciplinarian Kevin Jacobs and his 1971 Datsun 240Z, with co-driver Gordon Garland, they accomplished 81st out of 105 competitors.
Jacobs admits that they accomplished “out of the money,” but they don’t care.
“We finished, which was our goal,” he said via Facebook. “… There were a lot of bodies that spent abundant added than we did who did not finish. Made a lot of friends. Learned a lot. We are already advancing for abutting year. This was one of the best adventures of my life! I am hooked!”
The aggregation aloft money for Broward County’s Bottomward affection program. Abutting year’s accident for archetypal pre-1972 cars and trucks will activate its 34th anniversary cross-country archetypal car assemblage in one year at the Historic Main Artery Cruise in Jacksonville.
-- Porsche apparent its second-gen 2017 Panamera in Berlin on Tuesday, redeveloped from the arena up. Back it launched in 2009, added than 150,000 Panameras accept been sold. The new archetypal gets new engines, a new architecture and new technologies. Porsche said it has a coupé-like roof line, but it is “much ‘faster’, alike added activating and includes a new ancillary window attending that emphasizes the coupe-like ancillary appearance alike more.” Taking a cue from the new turbocharged abject 911s, the new twin-turbo engines of the Panamera are added fuel-efficient - the 550 hp Panamera Turbo and the 440 hp Panamera 4S. Both models will be able with all-wheel drive as standard, additional a new three-chamber air suspension, rear arbor council and cyberbanking 4D Anatomy Control anatomy management.
--0 You can acquisition annihilation on YouTube if you look. How about Canadian artist William Liddiard’s band-aid for drivers who aloof can’t amount out how to alongside park? His acknowledgment was simple - bolt bootleg omnidirectional “Liddiard Auto on his rather backward Toyota Echo, the architecture acceptance the little car to move in any direction, or aloof circuit about on its own axis.
“It works! I had to ad-lib a lot, use the abstracts accessible to me, and assignment on it sparingly back I could acquisition the time,” Liddiard says in his YouTube posting. “I absitively to put them on my car.”
To alongside park, aloof cull up abutting to an abandoned spot, again accelerate sideways. The custom tires cycle to move the car. Here’s his video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-TOV-NBD70.
-- The McLaren P1 LM supercar with disciplinarian Kenny Brack at the captain landed the road-legal car almanac at aftermost weekend’s Goodwood hillclimb, and we accept the video. Brack ran the acropolis in 47.07 abnormal in the ultimate street-legal P1, a GTR chase car adapted for alley use. Goodwood has run alley cars up the acropolis back 2000, but timed runs alone started in 2014, back the almanac was 49.27 abnormal for a Nissan GT-R Nismo. Brack oversteers in the aboriginal bend, and ultimately crosses the accomplishment band abnormal advanced of any added road-legal vehicle’s time. Here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9J0eakk2Kg
-- One of our admired cars is the Ariel Atom, a street-legal open-frame rear-engine two-seater that goes like fetor and handles like a chase car. Now Swiss electric agent specialists Kyburg accept their own open-frame sports car, and its electric, artery acknowledged and accessible in Basic, Fun, and Chase forms. The eRod Basic has a 10-kWh array with up to 43 afar on a 6-hour allegation and 60-hp electric motor application and 103 pound-feet of torque. The eRod Fun juices that up to a 17.3 kWh battery, up to 81 afar of ambit and the aforementioned motor, acceptable for a top end of 75 mph. The Chase eRod is the sports car -a 39 kWh array with a ambit of up to 137 afar with a 201 hp electric motor and up to 81 mph. Here’s a video of what it does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdyObZWFD4o
-- Finally, we are abiding you accept apparent this, or at atomic heard of it. But here’s the Jay Leno’s Garage articulation from this accomplished week’s advertisement that shows the acclaimed actor and car beneficiary as a commuter rolling and abolition in the iconic tail-standing Hemi Beneath Glass dragster. Leno rode with acclaimed disciplinarian Bob Riggle, 80, who looks like he bent a advanced caster in a about-face with the car at California’s Irwindale Speedway. Watch it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabX19ocJZA
The Independence Day anniversary and abutting weekend accept some car contest to remember, and celebrate:
Car Events:
■The Buddy and Valorie Short Canonizing Chase will be captivated at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 9, at Green Cove Dragway at 1010 Worthington Ave. off Florida 16 in the Reynolds Industrial Park.
Welland “Buddy” Robert Short, 55, was a clue artisan at the one-eighth-mile dragstrip. He and babe Valorie Shea Short, 30, forth with Erica Leigh Green Lancaster, 31, were dead on May 3 by Murray Leon Lancaster in Green Cove Springs. Lancaster, Erica’s ex-husband, again attempt himself afterwards the killings, according to police. Clue administrator Maree Moscati said the chase will account the Short Family, a canonizing account to be captivated afore the aboriginal abolishment round.
Spectator acceptance is $15 per person, while racers allotment is $25 to $60 depending on class. Added advice is at www.greencovedragway.com.
Car shows:
■Green Cove Dragway — Run What You Brung at 6 p.m. Saturday at 1010 Worthington Ave. off Florida 16 in the Reynolds Industrial Park. Gates accessible at 5 p.m. Racer’s access fees are $50 for admixture access and $25 for Test ‘n Tune. Assemblage are $12. For added advice and abounding schedule, appointment greencovedragway.com.
■Molly Brown’s Freedom Car Appearance — 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Tony’s Kitchen and Bar, 2467 Faye Alley in Jacksonville. The pre-Independence Day appearance includes a car appearance and alive music. Chargeless for assemblage and $20 per appearance vehicle.
■Outback Steakhouse Car Appearance - 5 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Outback Steakhouse at 1775 Wells Alley in Orange Park. Assemblage are chargeless and appearance cartage are $20 each, gain to account #TeamDevon, an 11-year-old boy diagnosed with a bump on his academician - www.gofundme.com/teamdevon.
■Summer Appearance and Shine - 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 9, at the Jacksonville Automotive and Motorcycle Museum at the Regency Square Mall, 9501 Arlington Expressway. Chargeless for assemblage and $15 per appearance vehicle, gain to account Jacksonville Naval Air Station USO. Presented by the North Florida Subaru Group.
Cruise-ins:
■Informal cruise-in — 7 to 9 a.m. every Saturday at Krispy Kreme, amid at 11117 San Jose Blvd. in Mandarin.
■Jacksonville Beach Cruise-in - 8 to 11 a.m. on Saturday at Fletcher High School at 700 Seagate Ave. in Neptune Beach. Presented by Bigger Jacksonville Beach.
■Sunshine Accompaniment Chevelles - 5 to 8 p.m. on Saturday at the Jacksonville Automotive and Motorcycle Museum at the Regency Square Mall, 9501 Arlington Expressway.
■First Coast Car Council - 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the At Home home adornment abundance at 1919 Wells Alley in Orange Park.
■Clay County Cruzers - 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday at Big Dawgs Family Sports Restaurant, 1330 Blanding Blvd. in Orange Park.
■ Aw Shucks Cruise-in — 4 p.m. every Friday at the restaurant, amid at 9743 Old St. Augustine Road.
Send advice on automotive and motorcycle contest to dan.scanlan@jacksonville.com or Dan Scanlan, Florida Times-Union, 1 Riverside Ave., Jacksonville FL 32202.
