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Shipped to Shelby in the summer of 1964, this King Cobra was originally assigned to Bob Bondurant. He finished fifth at the LA Times Grand Prix at Riverside and later that year finished third at Laguna Seca. The car was subsequently used for development work, which included the relocation of the front springs and dampers. As Shelby's involvement with Ford's sports car program increased, the King Cobra effort was abandoned. As a result, chassis CM/5/64 was sold to Europe where it was raced by Roy Salvadori, who had been Carroll Shelby's co-driver during the 1959 Le Mans victory for Aston Martin.
Following several outings in England, the car was returned to Shelby and later offered in the famous Shelby garage sale along with several other competition cars. It subsequently passed through various hands before it was acquired by Barry Brown in the early 1980s. For reasons unknown, he had the car restored to the livery of the sister car as used by Parnelli Jones and changed the identity to CM/6/64. A reason for the mistaken identity may have been that this car had been sold in 1964 using the body originally fitted on the Bondurant car. Recent research by Chuck Brandt uncovered the truth, and since the current owners of both cars have reversed the identities of the two cars back. CM/5/64 is seen here during the 2012 Monterey Motorsports Runion, once again sporting the number 96 as used by Bondurant at Laguna Seca back in 1964.
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