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Peter Brock is a former racing car designer from the
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. In the early 1960s he worked with
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at Shelby American where he was the designer for the iconic
Shelby DaytonaThe Shelby Daytona Coupe was a coupé based loosely on the AC Cobra roadster chassis and drive-train. It was built for auto racing, specifically to take on Ferrari in the GT class. Just six Daytona original coupes were built between 1964 and 1965...
Cobra coupe.FIA World GT Champion 1965
In 1966 Brock started his own motor racing team,
Brock Racing Enterprises (BRE) which worked with
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and Toyota and competed in SCCA DP class with Datsun 2000 roadsters and CP class with the 240Z (SCCA National Champions '70-'71) and 510 in the 2.5
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races in the early 1970s (National Champions '71-'72). The company was disbanded in 1972.
Brock now lives in the Seattle area, working as freelance automotive writer and is a racing photographer.
He was involved with the
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, a modern version of Daytona Cobra Coupe and other similar high performance cars. Over 120 Brock Coupes have been produced in South Africa and sold by
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(Superformance Replicars). He owns an example of the coupe (chassis #0073) painted Amulet Red with a Wimbledon White half-cove.
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