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Sunrise Simeone Demo Days 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe CSX2287 BW (4824) - Simeone Museum Philadelphia, PA 3-25-2017.
The first Cobra Daytona Coupe was always something of a mystery ever since it dropped out of sight in the early 1970s. The combination of its being the first Coupe built in the U.S., the first Coupe to win a race, and the now-famous Daytona pit fire (photos of which were splashed everywhere after it happened in February 1964) has established CSX2287 as arguably the most valuable of the six. The fact that it was hidden away for about 30-odd years by a female owner who was, at times, described by a paranoid, a recluse, an eccentric, and a ‘kook’ by Carroll Shelby himself only added to the car’s mystique.
Sunrise Simeone Demo Days 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe CSX2287 BW (4824) - Simeone Museum Philadelphia, PA 3-25-2017.
The first Cobra Daytona Coupe was always something of a mystery ever since it dropped out of sight in the early 1970s. The combination of its being the first Coupe built in the U.S., the first Coupe to win a race, and the now-famous Daytona pit fire (photos of which were splashed everywhere after it happened in February 1964) has established CSX2287 as arguably the most valuable of the six. The fact that it was hidden away for about 30-odd years by a female owner who was, at times, described by a paranoid, a recluse, an eccentric, and a ‘kook’ by Carroll Shelby himself only added to the car’s mystique.