2020 SHELBY COBRA FIA

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Shelby CSX2770 FIA Bondurant Tribute is a historically accurate Shelby roadster based on the cars piloted by world-champion and accomplished Shelby driver Bob Bondurant from the 1964 and 1965 race seasons. A limited number of these historically accurate Shelby CSX2000 FIA Bondurant Tributes will be built and include a day of training at the Arizona Bondurant Racing School. Each handcrafted Cobra will have a CSX2000 Shelby serial number to be documented in the Shelby Registry. The Bondurant Tributes are based on CSX2345. CSX2770 is the first Bondurant Tribute Built. It was completed in 1964 Shelby Viking Blue in #3 Spa livery, when Bob Bondurant finished in first place. The reason behind choosing this specific color over the many others that Bob raced and won in 1964, is that only CSX2345 raced in both the 1964 season and the 1965 championship season. With Bob winning first place both Spa races. CSX2770 includes a period correct laid-back windscreen, period-correct gauges, 14-gallon fuel tank, 16-inch original-style wood rim steering wheel, leaf spring suspension, driver's door knee-pad, high-beam activation switch, diagonal roll bar and Shelby American CSX2000 serial-numbered dash plaque, and original-style engine bay chassis number plate. These tributes are built to exacting standards with period-correct frame, suspension, and even the interior and exterior trim is exact to the original cars as they raced. On the outside it features front air dam, bug deflector,

painted quick jacks and country of origin plate. On the interior mirror position, driver race seat, dash layout, gauges, switches, Shelby dash plaque and even Bob Bondurant's physical signature on the dash. When it came to decide on an engine, there was only one choice. Shelby Engine Company is back and make brand-new 289ci V8 engines on matching-numbers aluminum blocks, instead of the old heavy and hot cast-iron blocks. These engines are then punched out to 364ci. Trimmed in Shelby's modern black-finned valve cover package and period-correct Harrison coolant tank. The engine is mated to a TREMEC TKO600 5-speed manual transmission.