Interesting, the few Cobra kits from US manufactures

[vamach1]

5 minutes ago, Greg Myers said:

Must be a really popular car to be kitted so many times and covered in so many threads and sections, WOW!

Yes but JC and Cobraman start half of them.  Just kidding guys - any Cobra is a good Cobra.

[Greg Myers]

Rex, what are you showing us in your picture ? Super detail. Looks better than my Exoto 1/18th diecast. https://www.exoto.com/s/1/ProductOverview.aspx?Language=en&CategoryId=158

Edited August 21, 2018 by Greg Myers

[Dave Van]

If Accurate Miniatures had made it longer than it did......we would have gotten a full range of Cobras.....they had done the design work for a number of high end die cast so info was in house.

[The Junkman]

About 4 years ago Academy promised a Daytona Coupe, even had it illustrated in the future release file and then "poof",  gone like vapor.  A modern 289 in the street, USRRC, and FIA bodies would be like printing money.  A 427 with bulged rear fenders as most all the race versions had should be pretty easy.  I have to believe that licensing was/is the bugaboo.  Carroll Shelby never met a dollar that he didn't want a piece of and it seems the company continues that tradition.

[SfanGoch]

49 minutes ago, Greg Myers said:

Rex, what are you showing us in your picture ? Super detail. Looks better than my Exoto 1/18th diecast. 

It's a 1/18 scale model by Michel Stassart. More info here. It looks like a 1/18 Shelby Collect diecast, which is really detailed and goes for 67 bucks.

Edited August 21, 2018 by SfanGoch

[vamach1]

23 minutes ago, Greg Myers said:

Rex, what are you showing us in your picture ? Super detail. Looks better than my Exoto 1/18th diecast. https://www.exoto.com/s/1/ProductOverview.aspx?Language=en&CategoryId=158

What SfanGoch said.  I forgot where the picture came from.

[SfanGoch]

Checked the Shelby Store and this is available for $59.95. Lots of other nice 1/18 diecasts listed, all of which are superbly detailed.

[cobraman]

Found another Daytona .

[cobraman]

Monogram cobra’s I have.

[cobraman]

The Revell kits I have .

[Gramps46]

K&B did two hard plastic Daytona slot bodies and they are different.  They are small but will fit on an AMT chassis I believe.  Unfortunately the clear glass is molded into the bodies.  Here along with my Gunze and Lindberg kits.

 

[Greg Myers]

Thanks Ray

[Greg Myers]

and aside from the metal kits these are just reissues of the Monogram kits. (Just ?) Yeah, they're still great kits. 

[Greg Myers]

"They are small but will fit on an AMT chassis I believe." on my list of thins to do.  Thanks Gary.

[Gramps46]

This is the only slab side in 1/24th scale that I have or am aware of.  Of course it is a diecast and the wire wheels are not so great.

[Greg Myers]

Other, as in NOT the same as earlier discussed.

The GUNZE SANGYO being the first super kit with all the bells and whistles.

[Greg Myers]

and the infamous Sunny  Basically the AMT 289 kit with a 427 body.

Edited August 21, 2018 by Greg Myers

[Greg Myers]

Stillborn  

[Greg Myers]

Not a kit, but interesting just the same, from EXOTO, the Shelby Daytona Cobra wooden buck. in 1/18th scale, Thanks Peter Brock.

[Matt Bacon]

Don't forget this one:

Monogram kit but with a whole load of white metal parts cast by Fine Molds... and very nice they are too:

best,

M.

[Greg Myers]

Just love the photo on this Hiroboy kit

[cobraman]

I have not been able to snag that one. I bid on a couple that popped up on the bay but they went for more than I was willing to spend.

[cobraman]

Kyosho also does a Daytona body that is pretty nice. I put one on a Monogram chassis.

[cobraman]

You are correct.

[cobraman]

Oops ! A couple more I forgot I had .