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Next Stop, Mecum Auctions. Their catalog did not list estimates. They did not list sold prices online.
2004 Ford Shelby Cobra Concept
SOLD
Engine 6.4L
Trans 6-Speed
Color Tungsten Grey
Interior Blue/Black
HIGHLIGHTS
o Ford Special Project Codename: Daisy
o Built by Ford with full cooperation and participation of Carroll Shelby
o Driven and tested for more than 150 miles by Carroll Shelby at Irwindale Speedway in California
o Carroll Shelby said of Project Daisy, “There are so many things left in the world that I want to do … and building a new Cobra is number one.”
o Chris Theodore, former Ford VP of Product Development, oversaw the design and build of Daisy along with Carroll Shelby and J Mays, GVP Ford Design
Introduced at the 2004 Detroit North American International Auto Show, where it was awarded Best in Show by “Autoweek” magazine
o 1 of 1 fully functioning Project Daisy concept car intended for production
o Prototype engineered welded and bonded space frame, made up of billet aluminum plus castings and extruded aluminum sections sourced from the Ford GT
6.4L/605 HP DOHC 40-valve aluminum V-10 with dry sump lubrication—1 of 4 specialty V-10 engines produced by Ford
o Advanced Powertrain
o Power is transferred through a torque tube to the rear mounted Ricardo 6-speed
o Ford GT manual transaxle
o Currently owned by Chris Theodore, who purchased Daisy in November 2017
o Proceeds of Chris Theodore's purchase were used towards the restoration of the Fair Lane mansion, the home of Henry and Clara Ford
o Restored to running form by Technosports of Livonia, Michigan, assembler of the original Cobra Concept chassis
o Fitted with a new twin-plate clutch, flywheel, wiring harness, spark plugs, mufflers and all fluids
o New output shaft made to original specifications by Livernois Motorsports of Dearborn Heights, Michigan
o Hydraulically operated power hood
o Tungsten Grey Metallic exterior with Silver stripes
o Blue and Black interior with aluminum trim
o Daisy is barely longer than a Mazda Miata, yet thanks to the rear mounted traxsaxle, provides a spacious interior with more legroom than a Ford Crown Victoria
o 2005 Ford GT front and rear suspension, o Power assisted rack-and-pinion steering and Brembo cross-drilled and ventilated disc brakes with 4-piston monoblock calipers
o Includes both original BF Goodrich Racing Slicks (not for road) mounted on BBS Billet show car wheels, and the BBS 3-piece wheels and Goodyear tires fitted during Carroll Shelby's drive at the Irwindale Speedway
o Featured on one hour “Rides” television episode “Codename: Daisy”
o Driven by Jay Leno on “Jay Leno's Garage” Season 6, Episode 1 with Donald Osborn and Chris Theodore
o Hero car driven by Ice Cube in the movie “XXX: State of the Union”
o Appeared at the 2018 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance
o Shown at the 2018 Concours d'Elegance of America in Plymouth, Michigan
o Subject of the award-winning book, “The Last Shelby Cobra” by Chris Theodore
Letter of Authenticity from Ford Motor Company included
o Build book presented to Ford CEO, Nick Scheele, included
o Ford Shelby Cobra Promotional Brochure included
o Extensive photographs taken during design and development with Carroll Shelby included
o Listed in the Shelby Registry
o Sold with Montana title
o Must be sold to an out of state resident or a licensed dealer
It’s fondly known as “Daisy”—a one-of-one, fully functional concept car—and it’s now slated to cross the Mecum auction block in Monterey this August. When Carroll Shelby and Chris Theodore announced at Pebble Beach in August of 2003 that “Ford and Shelby were joining forces to develop high-performance vehicles,” few knew that a secret project, code-named Daisy, was already underway to design and develop a new Cobra. Intended as a follow-on product to the 2005 Ford GT, Daisy was more than a typical concept car. Built by Ford with the full cooperation and participation of Carroll Shelby, Daisy was developed as a fully functional prototype to establish production feasibility. Working with Carroll Shelby, Chris Theodore, former Ford Vice President of Product Development, and J Mays, Group Vice President of Product Design, oversaw the design and build. The entire design and build process was documented on the one hour “Rides” television episode “Codename: Daisy,” during which Shelby stated, “There are so many things left in the world that I want to do … and building a new Cobra is No. 1.”
The 2004 Shelby Cobra Concept is powered by a 6.4L/605 HP 40-valve aluminum V-10 with dry-sump lubrication. It is one of four experimental engines produced by Ford’s Advanced Powertrain group (the other three remain in Ford’s possession). Power is transferred through a torque tube to the rear-mounted Ricardo 6-speed Ford GT manual transaxle.
The all-aluminum space frame chassis was designed by Ford’s Advanced Product Creation team, utilizing Ford GT extrusions and castings, along with a bespoke billet aluminum front structure. The front and rear independent suspensions are from the Ford GT, tuned specifically for Daisy. Steering is power-assisted rack-and-pinion, and stopping power is provided by Brembo cross-drilled and ventilated discs with four-piston monoblock calipers. The show car was fitted with custom BF Goodrich Racing Slicks (not for road use) mounted on unique seven-spoke BBS billet wheels, and it was fitted with BBS three-piece wheels and Michelin tires for Shelby’s drive at the Irwindale Speedway.
To cope with the stresses of a high-performance car, the body is made of a double-wall fiberglass construction with a foam core for rigidity. The one-piece tilting hood is hydraulically operated to show off the unique engine and chassis. Exterior details include billet aluminum A-pillars, bumperettes with carbon fiber splitters, rockers and rear diffuser.
Thanks to the rear-mounted transaxle, weight distribution is approximately 50/50, and Daisy is barely longer than a Mazda Miata, yet the interior provides more legroom than a Ford Crown Victoria. The bespoke interior is all custom, with a billet aluminum dashboard, headrests and novel interior release handles along with carbon fiber details. The custom leather-covered Sparco seats are made of carbon fiber with four-point Sparco seatbelts.
By December of 2003, Daisy was ready for a photo shoot with Carroll Shelby followed by two days of testing at the Irwindale Speedway in California. During those two days, Shelby put more than 150 miles on Daisy doing high speed runs around the oval, taking journalists for rides, and doing a flurry of donuts on the infield. At the end of day two, he said, “It turned out just beautiful, didn’t it? I’m very happy with the car. At 81 years old, how lucky can you get to be part of a continuation of something that happened 40 years ago? It’s going to be a real ass kicker!” Perhaps Matt Stone of Motor Trend summed it up best; after a test ride with Shelby, Stone noted that it was of little concern to Shelby “that he was driving a multimillion-dollar hand-built prototype, as he stabs the gas and takes the racer’s low line through a long, sweeping corner,” and concluded, “There’s one final reason Ford should—no, must—give us the Cobra: to put the final, iconic punctuation mark on Carroll Shelby’s extraordinary life, with a car that’s worthy of the name.”
The Shelby Cobra Concept was introduced at the 2004 North American International Auto Show in Detroit by Bill Ford and Carroll Shelby to great fanfare. Autoweek magazine awarded Daisy Best-in-Show. The Cobra Concept continued on the auto show circuit for many years and starred as the hero car in the movie “XXX: State of the Union,” driven by Ice Cube.
Although Daisy was intended for production in 2007, the looming “Great Recession” precluded progam approval, making this car one of one and “The Last Shelby Cobra.” To Theodore’s delight, he purchased the Shelby Cobra Concept at a charity auction, with proceeds going towards the restoration of the Fair Lane mansion, the home of Henry and Clara Ford. Ford disabled Daisy for liability purposes, so Theodore took her to the very team that had assembled the chassis: Technosports in Livonia, Michigan. It was restored to running condition by fitting a new transmission output shaft manufactured to original specifications by Livernois Motorsports of Dearborn Heights, Michigan, and it was also fitted with a new twin-plate clutch, flywheel, wiring harness, spark plugs and mufflers, and all fluids were replaced as well. The car was shown at the 2018 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance and 2018 Concours d’Elegance of America in Plymouth, Michigan. In 2020, it was featured on “Jay Leno’s Garage” Season 6, Episode 1 with Donald Osborn and Chris Theodore. Daisy is also the subject of the award-winning book, “The Last Shelby Cobra, My Times with Carroll Shelby” by Chris Theodore.
Designed and built by Ford in cooperation with Carroll Shelby, racer, team owner, manufacturer and “The most interesting man in the world,” Daisy received Shelby’s signature of approval after his Irwindale test drive. Appropriately, Daisy is now ready for the next chapter in its storied history as it heads for the Mecum auction block this August at Monterey 2021—the site of the Shelby/Ford announcement 18 years earlier. Accompanying Daisy will be a Letter of Authenticity from Ford Motor Company, a detailed Daisy build book presented to Ford COO Nick Sheele, extensive photographs taken during design and development with Carroll Shelby, and a certificate from the Shelby Registry.
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Had a blast with my auto-enthusiast friend and neighbor, Fred, at Monterey Car Week 2021.
I recently got ahold of a LEGO Education catalog, and I found out several things of interest:
Ridiculous pricing.
-25 pneumatic "T" pieces for $10
-"WeDo" Robotics education set (150 pieces, only one of them being an actual motor) for $129.95. However, the set does include a minifigure wth a lime green cap!
- Acceleration sensor (NXT) for $54.99
"Lego-compatible" system endorsed by Lego.
I encourage you to also check out www.legoeducation.us/store/ .
Como si fuese una obra de orfebrería, desenterrada de un tesoro antiguo por lo tosco y simple de las formas, pero por su rotunda belleza desnuda, se nos muestra Melosira. Es una de las diatomeas más comunes que pueblan las aguas estancadas y por su aspecto filamentoso se podría confundir con algunas algas filamentosas, pero Melosira es especial, sus individuos se reunen para formar estas colonias en forma de collar, collares de cápsulas de cristal en cuyo interior, como si fuesen de oro, brillan algunos pigmentos de una sustancia dorada que les ayuda a realizar la fotosíntesis: la crisolaminarina.
Pero cada cuenta de collar, además de las láminas de oro encierra burbujas de plata, son pequeñas gotitas de lípidos que Melosira almacena como sustancia de reserva, una particularidad de estas diatomeas, que a diferencia de las plantas no almacenan almidón sino este tipo de compuestos.
Cada una de las células de Melosira, cada cuenta de este collar, tiene forma de tambor pero un tambor formado por dos piezas que encjan perfectamente una en la otra, como la base y la tapa de una cajita cilíndrica, en este caso de finísimo cristal. La especie de nuestra galería, corresponde a Melosira varians, una de las más comunes y extendidas por nuestro Planeta.
Las gotitas de aceite ayudan a muchas diatomeas a flotar y situarse a una determinada profundidad, la suficiente para poder captar la luz del sol de la manera más eficaz. De este modo la Naturaleza fabrica estas minúsculas obras de orfebrería que el microscopio nos permite descubrir en cada gota de agua.
La imagen se ha tomado a 400 aumentos con la técnica de contraste de interferencia y procede del arroyo de Sogo, en la comarca zamorana de Sayago.
Con nuestra gratitud para Antonio Martínez Ron por la reseña incluida en su prestigioso blog Fogonazos de nuestra galería...y también a Paul por su referencia en www.dataisnature.com/ y por su magnífica galería
Puedes tener otra infomación en la exposición LA VIDA OCULTA DEL AGUA
Y en este catálogo
También en la galería de Fotolog
Y nuestro granito de arena por la Paz
Catalog #: 10_0016109
Title: Altitude Chamber Test
Date: 1955
Additional Information: From Jack voskamp Collection
Tags: Altitude Chamber Test, From Jack voskamp Collection, 1955
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Public Domain: Priced catalogue of artists' materials ... and drawing materials / F.W. Devoe & C.T. Raynolds Co.
Of course, you can have a catalogs with anything you want on it: graphics, logos, photograph, company details, greetings, etc.
Shot for winter clothing collection for upcoming catalog.
You can see a slightly stretched version here:
This is completely outside of the realm of my normal posts, but I was stoked to see one of my photos on the cover of a catalog and I wanted to share my, uh, stokedness. It's very cool to see your photos in print on such a large scale even though a) I didn't get paid ;-) and b) I had an inside track. (I'm a co-owner of christianaudio.com/.)