daytona

[Guest kurt8394]

Hey does anyone know if they make the cobra daytona coupe kit for a z???? or what other kits are out there

[SpeedRacer]

Here's a yellow one for sale http://adcache.collectorcartraderonline.com/10/7/8/27082578.htm

 

Jim Simpson sold the kit at one time but I don't know what happened to the molds. You might want to ask him http://www.simpsondesign.net/

[John Washington]

I used to have those molds...and hopefully will have them again tomorrow:)

 

However, I think the question was about a Shelby Cobra Daytona. That kit was done by Nalle and I have only seen photos.

 

Dan Campbell of Cybercars references it in his kitcar book, but I don't have a copy or know much beyond that.

 

http://www.cybercars.com/bigbooks/pp/bbpp1.htm

 

I had a prospective customer at one time who had one and I think I got a copy of his installation manual.

 

However, without the molds reproducing the kit would be improbably expensive.

 

You'd be better off financially buying a manufactured Cobra Daytona kit. They are expensive, but making a kit from scratch is too!

[SpeedRacer]

Oooooooooops....my bad. As usual I had Ferrari on my mind.

 

Yeah, I remember seeing a Shelby Cobra coupe kit for the Z but it was a long time ago. Seems like all the current kits use a custom chassis.

 

Good luck John on getting your old business up and running again!

[Z-TARD]

If anyone is interested, there is an ad in the San Diego auto trader from last week for molds and tooling to make cobra daytona and ferrari gto bodies for $10,000. (I dont know if this includes the molds for both, or if they are $10,000 each) The ad specifically says that the bodies are designed for datsun 240, 260, and 280 series cars. The phone number is (619)448-1335. Hope this helps.

[Sleek Z]

It is my understanding that an outfit named Puckett Automotive design in Santee? CA still offers a GT40 or Shelby Daytona Cobra like design for sale, but I never hear of anyone that has dealt with them or seen their kits up close. See Sales Brochure Cover image from that company to get a better idea of what they offer.

 

Personally, I have been searching for traces to the Nalle GT kit and it's history for over 10 years and still can not find out where the maker or the molds are. However, within the past 2 years there has come to my attention, a group of street customizers in Pennsylvania, that supposedly ran into a guy in the Northeastern states within the past 10 years that had over 8 Cobra Daytona body kits for sale designed to fit Z cars. These guys apparently purchsed 3-4 of the kits, but communication with these guys has been so poor that I've been unable to even determine whether any of them still know that seller's name or whereabouts. My gut keeps whispering to me that possibly this seller may have been Tom Nalle, the kit's original designer?

 

SideNote, from some of my research it has come to my attention that possibly Pete Brock, well known Datsun race car driver, may have been involved in the design and development of Carol Shelby's Cobra Daytona car? I have often wondered whether he could have been involved in someway in Tom Nalle's Cobra Daytona kit adaptation to the Z car as well?

[Guest blue73z]

To add on to Eric's sidenote, Pete Brock is credited as being the designer of Shelby's Daytona Coupe. There is an excellent article about the development of the Shelby Daytona in the July 2001 issue of Car and Driver written by Pete Brock.

[Guest Anonymous]

We tend to give Carroll Shelby credit for the Cobra and Daytona when in reality he was nothing more than a broke down former race driver in the right place and time to be showered with Ford race dollars in the Ferarri wars. Here is an web page interesting historical perspective with some of the names of the real people who developed the Cobra and the Daytona Ciupe that Shelby basically was not involved in the developement.. Attention should be paid to Carroll Shelby's questionable "Children's Heart Fund Chairity. This greedy old fart has just made a fool out of himself trying to get Cobra replica manufactures to pay him a royalty on some minor events and occurrenes he turnned his back on and legally abandoned years ago.