Cool video on the ‘63 Tempest SD that ran Daytona instead of the dragstrip

[tom406]

That car was purpose built for THAT race weekend, and with no real series to race in had an even more limited future than the drag cars. I bet MB bought it fairly cheaply on a whim, intrigued by the engineering solutions with the transaxle and such. It was probably anyalyzed, dissected, discussed and scrapped within a few weeks. IIRC, Shelby almost left the Cobra Daytona Coupes in Europe rather than deal with the import/export costs of cars he knew wouldn’t be fielded competitively by his team again.