If you've been following us for a while, you know that occasionally we come across a really special Coupe that needs a good home or needs help, or both. We've known Superformance Coupe SPC0115 since its first owner bought it in 2006 and had the install done. The car was done right.  

Since that owner, the original carburation was changed out for an 8 stack fuel injection system. Impressive looking but like so many, the fuel injection management system was problematic. Upon procuring the car, we decided to leave the beautiful 8 stack in place but to completely replace the fuel management system and ALL the wiring. We turned to Tom Barnard of Speedway Classic Cars who does many of the Shelby installs. He said the FAST management system is the only way to go. The FAST state-of-the-art system learns over time so it becomes one with any car it's in. An expert in the field, we had Tom do the installation and the re-wiring. It has been well worth it.  

The car runs so well it's easy to focus on how well it drives and forget all of the BRE upgrades and accessories we've installed as well (optically perfect rear window, elegant and useable side mirrors, a full complement of BRE instrumentation and long lasting and clean looking headlight and driving light covers). And as always, whenever we get a Coupe we go end-to-end inspecting and fixing all the issues these cars can be known to have.

We're selling this car to help fund the start-up of Aerovault production. See all the details here and spread the word!

Now that the holiday season is upon us I thought I'd share with you, via video, some of my favorite Cobra memorabilia that we have on the walls at BRE and in books we offer. Watch me talk here about some of the history behind the pieces we have in our shop.

In addition to Cobra items you'll see on the video, we have several great Corvette posters, even the official, original Monterey Historics posters from 2002 when Corvette was the featured marque. Another interesting piece is a quarter mile shot showing a Cobra roadster and a C2 Corvette coming off the line. Add my autograph and with one signature you cover the history of both of these cars!

Three shown here, we offer all Shelby American Museum posters here  

Two at a time Le Mans '65	Stunning GT350	Awesome Sebring '65
Original Monterey Historics Shelby poster	Original Monterey Historics Corvette poster	The first poster I created at Shelby's (repro)

We offer a wide variety of posters and art here

If you want to give art, there's nothing like George Bartell lithographs (we also have many original pieces as well). We've found it very difficult to show the details and colors of these pieces appropriately on the website here but we liked what we saw when we videotaped me talking about how I met George, how I came to hire him to create the illustrations for the Shelby ads, the magic components of his art and showing several of his pieces. View the video here. 

In addition to the numerous lithographs we offer, this is an example of the Original art that's available here

Amazing piece of "The King", Richard Petty	Ferdinand Porsche and his racers	Senna!
Emotions will move you with this Alex Zanardi piece	You'll never find another Mark Martin like this!	Sarah Fisher was a phenom

 

By the way, we had someone get upset with us on ebay because we had a piece listed as having George's signature. Knowing that George had passed away last year, they thought the signature was a reproduction and that our description was misleading. When they found out that signed pieces we have are live signatures signed by George when he was still with us they went from upset to puzzled as to why the art isn't priced at hundreds of dollars. It's a good time to get a deal here. 

 

Books are always a great gift and we always try to make our book offerings special. With John Morton's book on the Shelby Years, the books we offer are autographed by John. Sylvia Wilkinson's book on my BRE team (The Stainless Steel Carrot) is autographed by Sylvia, John (a prominent figure in the book) and myself (team owner and manager).  With the Mustang Fifty Years book we include a reprint of the first GT350 ad, which I created before Ford became more involved in the program.  Also, I'm more than happy to write a personal note into any book for you or whoever you plan to give it to.   

John Morton autographed, John shares his experiences at Shelby's	With Carroll's biography we include a photo of he and I at the driving school	Incredible details and pics
SAAC registries are a must for researching these cars.  Three registries cover: 1) Cobras and GT40s, 2) Shelby Mustangs '65-66 3) Shelby Mustangs '68-'70	Shelby Mustang Fifty Years includes photos never seen before.Great for the coffee table	The inside story of my BRE team, autographed by the author, John Morton and me

   

If you need any help to make something special for you or someone else, just give us a call or e-mail us here  or call 702-558-3374. We always have ideas and are more than happy to help.  We can also ship any item directly to your recipient.  If you respond to the e-mail receipt you receive when ordering that it's a gift, we won't include the receipt in the package.  We can include a note saying who it's from if you tell us what to write.  

Many of us talk about the importance of getting

We love these shirts with one of the last pieces of art our friend Dave "Big" Deal created (Dave also created the concept cars for Pixar's movie "Cars"). Check these fun shirts out here. 

It was a pretty busy SEMA week for us, including the unveiling of our new Aerovault MKII. The new composite roof makes the Aerovault even more aerodynamic (and stylish) than the first breakthrough model. The composite roof and fenders reduce the weight of this already lightweight aluminum 22' trailer down to an estimated 2200 pounds (standard trailers of this size are easily twice as heavy).  

Not only is the Aerovault MKII more aerodynamic and lighter in weight, customers can choose their preferred color. Those concerned about heat can go with a white roof and fenders as seen here. Those that want a more traditional look can choose a silver to blend in with the aluminum components. Ferrari fan? Go red! Cobra Guardsman Blue? Corvette Velocity Yellow?

If you are a member of the SCCA, be sure to check out the story in this December's issue of Sports Car magazine (just out), page 88, by Auto Cross Champion Fred Zust on his experiences with his Aerovault MKI. And then consider that his experiences will only be better with the MKII.

If you run an event and would like me to be part of it, your goal should be to use me to achieve your event goals, which could be to increase attendance, increase publicity, expand your audience, etc. My speaking and appearance rates haven't changed much over the years (not like the increases we've seen in travel expenses). The calendar does fill up quickly however so don't wait to contact us here. Provide details such as dates, audience, size, ideas on what you'd like me to do (e.g. be a speaker, be Grand Marshal, be a judge) and we can send you details on availability and rates.

We currently have videos on topics I speak about on our YouTube Channel.  Go here and select the Peter Brock Speaker Series videos. Take a look to get an idea of what might be of interest to your group. We'll be posting videos on more topics in the future so be sure to "Subscribe" to the channel and you'll be automatically notified when they're posted.

Depending on how long you've been following us, you may or may not be aware that our website started in 2005 with a focus on our archive photographs. Over the years Gayle had been going through and organizing all my files (that's what us packrats call boxes and boxes of stuff that we have no idea what's in them). She kept on saying how much people would really love to see the photographs I had kept all these years (decades), like this image I took of Fantuzzi when I was working in Italy designing this car for Shelby and DeTomaso.  Their relationship ultimately fell through and DeTomaso kept the car and called it the DeTomaso P70 with it being a highlight of the Turin Auto Show that year. 

When setting up the website we wanted to offer something to visitors. With all of our high-end photojournalism equipment, we decided to scan some of our archive photos and offer high quality reprints (these reprints are so good their quality is often better than the originals). Each reprint comes with a certificate on the back saying it's an official BRE archive reprint. This photo is at Le Mans in 1965.  I handed my camera to someone to capture this moment of (l-r) myself, Alan Grant and a French Official standing next to the Daytona Coupes on pit row. 

We've been offering these prints mounted on high quality and sturdy gatorboard.  Mounted photos are a nice way to display photographs as you can place them anywhere and you eliminate the hassle and cost of trying to find frames that look good and fit them.  However, gatorboard is very expensive (foamboard is much cheaper but doesn't hold up and warps easily) and the labor to mount photos on any type of board is extremely intensive. (the photo seen here is of the BRE Hino Samurai I designed for the 1967 Japanese Grand Prix) 

Our prices for mounting photos has been less than our cost for quite a while now and frankly, not many people choose the option. We suspect some of that is because we've offered our archives for so long that we never mention them. Consequently, few people are even aware of them!  We will continue to offer this mounting service (at our current less-than-cost prices) until our current supply of gatorboard is gone and then we will discontinue it.

So that's the Holiday Special... get your archive photos with mounting before the option is gone!  Check out our archive photos here.