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Old 05-07-2010, 02:52 PM   #1
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Default Highest amount EVER paid for a car in USA

http://www.mecum.com/news/news_detail.cfm?NEWS_ID=2102

Something strange though...

Shelby Daytona coupe.... designer is Peter Brock....

Wasn't the car that (our) brocky crashed fatally a Shelby Daytona Coupe??

That is weird... strange co-incidence...

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Old 05-07-2010, 02:55 PM   #2
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Geez, that article is like a year old.
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Old 05-07-2010, 02:58 PM   #3
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You're right... I didn't realise...

Its straight off the front page of
http://www.mecum.com/

So i figured it was new news... (I obviously didn't read it as thoroughly as I thought I did)...
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Old 05-07-2010, 11:38 PM   #4
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Yeah I remember reading it a while. When I read the designer's name was Peter Brock I got chills up my spine.
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Old 06-07-2010, 06:52 PM   #5
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different Peter Brock
that daytona is a genuine shelby

our Brockies one was a replica version
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Old 06-07-2010, 09:59 PM   #6
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And I thought that the US version was usually called "Pete". He was a hero of mine for a long time.
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