Dave MacDonald, ever the mechanic, works with the crew to build the new King Cobra-Lang Cooper. That's Olympia Brewery heir
Craig Lang (L) who purchased the car to run under the Shelby American banner. Dave is second from right. Photo Dave Friedman

Dave - on the left in this photo and Craig on the right - do a little engine work. Photo courtesy of Dave Friedman

Photo courtesy of Dave Friedman

The finished product. This is how the just completed King Cobra Lang-Cooper looked for its maiden race at Phoenix International
Raceway in April 1964. In this race Dave beat out Skip Hudson, Bobby Unser, Chuck Parsons, Ken Miles, Lothar Motschenbacher,
George Folmer, Jerry Titus, Ed Leslie & many other great drivers to score the Lang Cooper's first-ever victory. Chief mechanic Wally
Peat (R) and car owner Craig Lang (L) button the car up before heading to the starting grid. Photo Dave Friedman

Unfortunately this is how the King Cobra Lang Cooper looked a week later after Bob Holbert lost it in the rain during pre-race testing
for the May 10, 1964 USRRC Championships at Kent Washington. Dave MacDonald was scheduled to drive the car at Kent but
while he was at Indy qualifying for the 500, Shelby had Holbert out performing tire tests. With the Lang now totaled, Carroll had Dave
step into Bob's King Cobra and Dave won the Kent race. This would be Dave's last race, and win, before losing his life at Indy.

Photo Dave Friedman

Photo Dave Friedman

The Lang Cooper's remains went back to Carroll's California shop and then ... looks like discarded in the trash. Photo Dave Friedman

And there goes the CM/1/64 chassis into the trash! Photo Dave Friedman

Shelby reassembled a new car using salvaged parts and a new chassis flown in from England. Pete Brock designed a new body and
they hired fabricator Don Edmunds to shape it. This how the new Lang Cooper II looked for is debut race at the 1964 LA Times Grand
Prix at Riverside. By this time Shelby American had lost its #1 driver as Dave MacDonald perished in the Indy 500 so Shelby selected
team driver Ed Leslie to pilot the new car in the Times Grand Prix. Leslie ran a strong race and finished 4th. Photo Dave Friedman

Same 1964 LA Times GP race shows a trio of King Cobras surounding Jim Clark's Lotus. Richie Ginther in #92, Jim Clark in #15,
Ronnie Bucknum in #95 & Ed Leslie in the King Cobra Lang Cooper II. Photo Dave Friedman

This is how the car looks today. Current owner Claude Nahum hired Pete Brock to do a throrough restoration and the King Cobra
Lang Cooper looks as stunning today as it did in its glory days. Photo courtesy of Vintage MotorSport

Photo courtesy of Vintage MotorSport

Photo courtesy of Vintage MotorSport

And yes, the Lang Cooper King Cobra does a little vintage racing these days. Courtesy of Vintage MotorSport

Slot car models of the Shelby King Cobra-Lang Cooper