Ironic Brockie trivia

noosacuda · 26-09-2006, 09:26 AM

We all know Peter Brock died (tragically) in a Replica Cobra Daytona? Did you know the bloke who first designed the original in 1963, his name was Peter Brock?. a designer for GM in America. Weird eh?

BJ · 26-09-2006, 09:43 AM

Actually it was Pete Brock.

kinksta · 26-09-2006, 09:51 AM

oh my goodness. thats unreal, how'd ya find that out dude???

**ebxr8240** · 26-09-2006, 09:52 AM

Yes he was on Discovery [ Rides ??] when the new Cobra was being designed....
When names where mentioned, it cought my attention also....

Poetic Justice · 26-09-2006, 09:53 AM

Yeah I was reading something about that fella via autoblog.com - and I couldn't quite figure out whether they were talking about Aust's Peter Brock or not

Boss 260 Ute · 26-09-2006, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by noosacuda

We all know Peter Brock died (tragically) in a Replica Cobra Daytona? Did you know the bloke who first designed the original in 1963, his name was Peter Brock?. a designer for GM in America. Weird eh?

Where did you find this? Any proof?

**ebxr8240** · 26-09-2006, 10:13 AM

http://www.datsun.org/fairlady/CobraDaytona.htm
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http://www.datsun.org/fairlady/BRE.htm

LTDHO · 26-09-2006, 10:39 AM

That is amazing.

Gunns · 26-09-2006, 10:41 AM

How that ay. So the rule is never drive a car that is made by someone with the same name as you.

Boss 260 Ute · 26-09-2006, 10:45 AM

WOW totally amazing!

Smoked · 26-09-2006, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Gunns

How that ay. So the rule is never drive a car that is made by someone with the same name as you.

Pays to go change your name to somethin abstract. Its an interesting world, 6 degrees of seperation.

Rev28K · 26-09-2006, 11:58 AM

Yup. I knew that. When the news first came through I was half thinking that maybe they might’ve been referring to PB the yank.

He was an instructor with Carroll Shelby’s driving school as well, he’s worked on Datsuns, ultralight cars and various other things. The new Superperformance Daytona coupes are longer than the originals, which is what he would’ve preferred originally. AC built a low drag Le Mans coupe as well as Shelby. When one of them was being built in Italy they mucked up the height and it was a bit taller than the original plans – Dan Gurney got to drive that one. The Daytona was classed as an evolution of the original 289 Cobra like the Ferrari 250 GTO (Gran Turismo Omoglomato) was an evolution of the original Ferrari 250 SWB GTB (Gran Turismo Berlinetta).

Doctor Sodways · 26-09-2006, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Rev28K

Yup. I knew that. When the news first came through I was half thinking that maybe they might’ve been referring to PB the yank.

He was an instructor with Carroll Shelby’s driving school as well, he’s worked on Datsuns, ultralight cars and various other things. The new Superperformance Daytona coupes are longer than the originals, which is what he would’ve preferred originally. AC built a low drag Le Mans coupe as well as Shelby. When one of them was being built in Italy they mucked up the height and it was a bit taller than the original plans – Dan Gurney got to drive that one. The Daytona was classed as an evolution of the original 289 Cobra like the Ferrari 250 GTO (Gran Turismo Omoglomato) was an evolution of the original Ferrari 250 SWB GTB (Gran Turismo Berlinetta).

When they made the race cars, the people producing them thought that the flat roofline that the cars had was odd, so they rounded it. This is where the higher roofline comes from, and they also managed to reduce the top speed of the car in doing so. The flat roofed ones were faster, but overall, the modified rooflined cars were the more succesful over their liferime

noosacuda · 27-09-2006, 09:33 AM

From a book on the Shelby Fords and Mustangs. He is refered to as "Peter" and also "Pete" Brock. Also designed the rocker panel (sill) stripes for the GT350's.