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Old 08-22-2012, 01:25 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Old 08-22-2012, 01:44 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 08-22-2012, 03:21 PM   #3 (permalink)
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That stinks... Any more pics?? hehe
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I'll bet there won't be many additional photos or news as the owner doesn't want the bad publicity. Anyone know who owns # 2286?
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Old 08-22-2012, 03:35 PM   #5 (permalink)
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That sucks! These cars become almost priceless and to race them is shear lunacy!
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Old 08-22-2012, 03:42 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Found some more photos
Monterey 2012, Daytona CSX 2286 crash - Club Cobra

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This is old, post from 2010,but the owner may be Rob Walton

I have been trying to figure out where the 6 Daytona Coupes are located: Does anybody have the information to fill in the blanks:

1. CSX 2286 - Owned by Rob Walton of Wal Mart. I believe it is in the USA, but I have no idea where.
2. CSX 2287 - Simeone Collection in Philadelphia
3. CSX 2299 - Shelby Ameriican Collection in Boulder Colorado
4. CSX 2300 - Owned by Jim Spiro in New Orleans, LA
5. CSX 2601 - Just sold at Mecum for $7.25M. No idea to whom or where it went in the world
6. CSX 2602 - The last article I could find said it was in Japan.
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Old 08-22-2012, 03:53 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I admire the hell out of the guys who own original vehicles and race them.

I'm guessing they have the resources to fix them if they get dinged up.
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If you can afford a $4M car, you can afford to have it rebuilt. Even if you have to buy an entire new body from Kirkham, it'd be in the $50K range.

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Old 08-22-2012, 04:39 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Last I heard there were 4 in the USA, one in Japan and the other in Germany.

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I'm guessing they have the resources to fix them if they get dinged up.
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Old 08-22-2012, 05:28 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Awesome to see them race them hard in lieu of being hidden away. Sad to see it crash though.

Maybe he can build a factory five and have a bumper sticker, "I crashed my real one"!!

I like that one picture on the other forum showing the green tarp on it to try and cover it up.

Based on the one article they said the last one sold for over $7.25m. Priceless either way. At least he has the means to fix it perfect.
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It is Rob Waltons and it is kept in Scottsdale AZ.
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I'll bet Mike McCluskey has already been called...
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Old 08-23-2012, 12:52 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Here are some pictures of the other cars. Great shots and some of #9 before the wreck. pic #38, 58, 60

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Rob Walton is a very good driver, and the car is very well sorted and was running a strong third (out of about 40 Cobras) when this happened. He races at the Historics a lot, and I've seen him win against a big field of Cobra roadsters and Corvettes. So, as someone said before, more power to him for bringing it out. It'll be back.
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Love this story! That's what race cars do...race and crash. Makes for an interesting story. The good news is no one was seriously hurt. Fix the thing and get it back on the track!!! Money is just money. Have fun in THIS life!!!
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Almost all the Cobra's entered in Saturdays race, were not pussyfooting around the track, which you might expect for such rare cars. They were running them hard out.
The Coupe was running third at the time of the crash, and had already run several laps at speed, (on Thursday and Friday as well). I think it was a mechanical failure, and not driver error. Really a shame, but fortunately he didn't collect anyone else during the off.
Entering Turn 5, they were braking from speeds of 120+, so a brake failure at that point could be catastrophic..
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Rob Walton is worth 18.3 Billion dollars!!!! Drop in the bucket to fix the car for him..
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Thank God for guys like Walton or we'd only see these things behind velvet ropes under flo lights.
They are steel and aluminum, it can all be beat back into shape. Unless it's a full out fire (unlikely with today's fire systems) it would be pretty hard to wreck 'em beyond the ability to be fixed.
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