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[935k3]

.according to the new catalogue, Academy is bringing us a new tool Cobra Daytona Coupe this year. You can flip through the catalogue here:

http://www.academy-e...htm/katalog.htm
This was posted at another Forum. I hope it's for real.

[Tom Jackson]

Oh I hope so .

[Len Woodruff]

It doesn't look to me to be the 64/65 Pete Brock designed Cobra Daytona's. What it looks like is the street version manufactured by the company in South Africa. It will probably have a Ford Motorsports engine and different wheels. Here is a picture of the car.

Edited by Len Woodruff, 31 January 2010 - 01:44 PM.

[Zoom Zoom]

It doesn't look to me to be the 64/65 Pete Brock designed Cobra Daytona's. What it looks like is the street version manufactured by the company in South Africa. It will probably have a Ford Motorsports engine and different wheels. Here is a picture of the car.

Pete Brock certainly did design the Superformance Coupe that I think is in that photo (he designed the originals as well). Without the limitations of the original car, the new one has much better proportions. Pete prefers the new car, so do I...and to be perfectly honest, I'd rather have the Superformance Coupe vs. a vintage Daytona coupe...since I already have an expensive resin kit

Either way, good news...I think.

Academy...what a weird company to do the Cobra Daytona...time will tell if it's a decent kit or not.

[bigphoto]

One of the bad things about the originals is that some of the dimensions were off from the first two
as "Luigi and Guido" misinterpreted the blue prints so the last 4 weren't exactly like the first two,
story has it that the first two were the same the second two were identical to each other and the last
two were identical to each other and the there was the John Wilment coupe also.

Just some food for thought

[gbdolfans]

when I went to the link,all it had was aircraft.When I got to the last page of a/c.,it caused my Firefox to crash.
Thanks

[MonoPed]

No way! Superformance Coupe or not, it's cool. After the Accurate Miniatures stunt with the 289 Cobras, I'm not exactly holding my breath though...

[Chuck Kourouklis]

Well I love Academy's birds, and I don't think they're that notorious for announcing projects and pulling them back. A legitimate, somewhat mainstream Daytona kit - original or Superformance - would be most welcome to me.

Based on their aircraft, I'd anticipate something at least on the order of the Accurate Miniatures GS Corvettes (with 15 years of progress in tooling refinement). Time will tell...

[torinobradley]

Drool...

[george 53]

Duhhhh, i DON'T read OR understand German. What I COULD see was a BattleShip, an NO Cobras

[MrObsessive]

Duhhhh, i DON'T read OR understand German. What I COULD see was a BattleShip, an NO Cobras

George, here ya go....................



I did a screen capture of the catalog...........it's certainly there!

[MrObsessive]

Pete Brock certainly did design the Superformance Coupe that I think is in that photo (he designed the originals as well). Without the limitations of the original car, the new one has much better proportions. Pete prefers the new car, so do I...and to be perfectly honest, I'd rather have the Superformance Coupe vs. a vintage Daytona coupe...since I already have an expensive resin kit

Either way, good news...I think.

Academy...what a weird company to do the Cobra Daytona...time will tell if it's a decent kit or not.

I've got Harold Bradford's excellent resin kit of this car as well, and I recently just sold a Gunze one on Feebay. I'd like this one just the same as I'm curious as to how they handle the mechanicals--------will it be full detail or strictly a curbside?

Beautiful car though for a design over 45 years old!

Edited by MrObsessive, 12 February 2010 - 12:04 PM.

[sjordan2]

Here is a weird and, in a way, heartbreaking story about a Cobra Daytona barn find. I can't find the original story that I saw, but unlike the following write-up, it said that the current owner had no plans to restore the car and only wanted to clean it up.

http://jimsgarage.wo...-coupe-mystery/

[philo426]

Looks interesting! Here is a 1/18 diecast version'

[Tommy Kortman]

Here is a weird and, in a way, heartbreaking story about a Cobra Daytona barn find. I can't find the original story that I saw, but unlike the following write-up, it said that the current owner had no plans to restore the car and only wanted to clean it up.

http://jimsgarage.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/the-missing-daytona-coupe-mystery/

That car is currently residing less than 20 minutes from me. It looks fantastic. The lettering is no longer on the drivers side door. I couldn't see the passenger side. It is currently located in the Simeone Automotive Foundation Museum. Here's the link to the Museum.
Simeone Museum

This place is amazing.