Can't Afford a Shelby? Just Build Your Own

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Paul Martin, 48, a commercial set designer from Los Angeles, on his 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe recreation, as told to A.J. Baime.

In the early 1960s, a car designer named Peter Brock, working for Carroll Shelby’s Shelby American racing team, designed the Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe. It became the first car from an American team to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans, in its class, and a year later, it was part of the Shelby American…