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And in case you re wondering, this example, CSX 9114, has received a California smog exempt registration. The current owner purchased it back in 2018 and has since driven it about 4,000 joyful miles. The body is constructed from fiberglass and the doors and windows were aligned a year ago and a clear protection film was applied to the front end last September. There are Plexiglas covers for the headlights and driving lights have also been installed. The sale also includes a personal note from Pete Brock himself detailing the car s modifications.
Some of these include door pulls with etched Carroll Shelby signatures, Peter Brock emblems above the side pipes, and Halibrand-style 18-inch wheels sourced from American Racing. Those wheels are wrapped in staggered-width Michelin Pilot Sport A/S 3+ rubber. There are four-wheel discs and Shelby-branded front calipers.
Remembering Bruce Meyers Courtesy John Dinkel
We lost Bruce Meyers. Yes, the Meyers with the S at the end of his name. The Meyers who designed the legendary Meyers Manx dune buggy, one of the most iconic, most recognizable, most fun and most copied designs in the history of the automobile. The Meyers who was famous for leaping tall sand dunes with a single bound and running through the esses at places like Pikes Peak. Yes, that Meyers. Related Stories
He passed away peacefully and quietly in his sleep, a manner totally contradictory to the way he lived his life. He was 94 years young. I loved him. And I miss him dearly.
For the love of Ford: Carroll Shelby, the muscle behind US muscle cars
Man and machine: Carroll Shelby’s AC Cobra with Ford V8 power helped define the muscle car of the future.
It was a match made in automotive heaven and it was to birth and inspire both a new and subsequent generations of the American ‘muscle car’ as we have come to know and love them.
Internationally credited as “a man whose vision of performance transformed the automobile industry”, race car driver and car manufacturer Carroll Shelby created the best known US sports cars of the 1960s, the AC Cobra and the Shelby Mustang.
Although it’s been nearly four years since the Viper (sold under both the Dodge and SRT brand names during its career) was in production , its shadow still looms large over the American sports car scene. And design student Guillaume Mazerolle has taken a crack at bringing it into the mid ’20s under the name Viper Basilisk.
Mazerolle studies transportation design at Strate, School of Design in Paris. No stranger to supercars, he has had internships at Lamborghini, Honda, and Renault in recent years.
His Viper, as a thoroughly modern take on the thoroughly old school car, adds hybridization to the car. And that’s where the name comes from. The Basilisk, reputed to be the serpent king, was a mythical hybrid beast that can kill with a singly glance