{"id":493791,"date":"2014-05-01T00:03:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T07:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=10591"},"modified":"2024-10-31T13:48:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T13:48:02","slug":"cobra-coupe-congressional-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/cobra-coupe-congressional-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Cobra Coupe Congressional Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_715281\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-715281\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n2-201405-p1-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-715281 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n2-201405-p1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n2-201405-p1-2.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n2-201405-p1-2-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n2-201405-p1-2-1024x964.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n2-201405-p1-2-100x94.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n2-201405-p1-2-770x725.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/n2-201405-p1-2-293x276.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-715281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daytona Cobra coupe of Jo Schlesser\/Allen Grant at speed. Photo: Ford Motor Company<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prototype Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe (CSX2287) designed and developed by Carroll Shelby\u2019s racing team, Shelby American, in 1964 is the first automobile to be recorded under the Secretary of \u00a0 the Interior\u2019s Standards for Heritage Documentation. The Historical Vehicle Association announced that honor recently, unveiling the car in its \u201csurvivor\u201d state at a press conference in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe\u2019re honored that a Shelby car is the first vehicle to attain the same status as American icons like the Golden Gate Bridge, the spacecraft \u2018Enterprise\u2019 and Mount Vernon,\u201d said Neil Cummings of the Carroll Hall Shelby Trust and Carroll Shelby International. \u201cThis Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe represents the hopes, dreams and monumental effort of a group of hot rodders who changed the way the world perceived American cars. Conceived by Carroll Shelby and created by his team, it captured the public\u2019s hearts when it captured the World Championship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">HVA chose CSX2287\u2014the first of the six Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupes that helped Shelby American win the FIA World Manufacturers Championship in 1965\u2014to be the first car in its groundbreaking program because it is among the most historically significant automobiles in America, based on its association with important persons and events; its construction and aerodynamic design; and informational value as one of the few racecars from the period that has not been completely restored. The Shelby is part of the collection at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in\u00a0Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prototype Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe (CSX2287) designed and developed by Carroll Shelby\u2019s racing team, Shelby American, in 1964 is the first automobile to be recorded under the Secretary of \u00a0 the Interior\u2019s Standards for Heritage Documentation. The Historical Vehicle Association announced that honor recently, unveiling the car in its \u201csurvivor\u201d state at a press conference in Washington, D.C. \u201cWe\u2019re honored that a Shelby car is the first vehicle to attain the same status as American icons like the Golden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":715280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,1306],"tags":[429,1307,1308],"class_list":["post-493791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-shelby","tag-news","tag-shelby","tag-shelby-cobra"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cobra Coupe Congressional Honor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cobra Coupe Congressional Honor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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