#SHELBY COBRA MOD FOR GT LEGENDS DRIVER#

This is the Porsche 917K chassis #917010 as it raced in the 1971 Circuito Internacional de Vila Real in the hands of MГЎrio de AraГєjo 'Nicha' Cabral (said to have been the greatest Portuguese driver in history). The colour was just a quick dashing, also tried to make the flippers blacker like the tires, in all it is just a rough sketch, possibly in the future I'll try to draw a more detailed and life-like piece. Maybe I associated with the V12 engine, which I think is quite poetic! Why six flippers? That's the most Pliosaur-like feature, who had only 4, but I remember clearly in the dream that it had 6. Gave it gills where the doors should be, turned the top vent into a big scute followed by smaller ones and the tail was pretty straight-forward (I mean, it is called a tail in motorsport for a reason! and it could have been in any of the shapes the car sported throw its career). I gave it small eyes in the middle of dark patches in the shape of the headlights like Killer-whales or Pandas, a mouth like a Whale-shark (they do look very alike), with similar barbs dividing the side openings and tried to make the small openings around pose as sensory organs. Notice that the above drawing has a spoiler like the prototypes and the beginning of the production of the car, before they were 'tamed' with more stabilizing rear-ends (another analogy, since this 'animal' never had contact with humans and still needs to be tamed). The bellow picture was made from a 917 picture to what I imagine this animal would look like, later added colour in the computer as a quick experiment. I really love the way my dreaming mind mixed these two so different worlds together!ДЄbout the drawings, the above drawing is exactly how it came to me in the dream, like as if in a video report recorded in a deep sea dive. And since it is such a rare living-fossil species of a car, the only way to find more is if there is an unknown population living in an unexplored part of the world. It really makes sense: the 917 is such an organic looking machine, mistaking it for an animal (and of course, it had to be a legendary prehistoric great predator, since it is a classic racing beast) is an easy step, particularly since I deal so much with Mesozoic animals.

To my woken up mind it meant 'Wow, did I just mixture quite logically to of my greatest passions?' To my unconscious mind it meant 'Good, maybe the prices will drop down if they find more unknown to exist individuals/chassis.'. Later I dreamt that I was watching a News program and it came up that 'New undiscovered 917 specimen was just found swimming at great depth.' (as if they had just found a new individual/population of a very rare living-fossil species until then unknown to inhabit that part of the ocean, like a Coelacanth).

I think this came up because in the night before I saw the news that a 917 had just been sold for some 1.7 Million dollars, and I though 'well, that's one dream car that I'll never own'. What you are looking at is a mixture between a Porsche 917, a Pliosaur and a Whale-shark.ДЇirstly, I must point out that I'm a Paleontology student, passionate about my work, as well as Nature on a whole and classic racing cars - to witness the moment when my unconsciousness mixes them all is rather interesting. I came to me in a dream a short while ago and then I had to draw it. How did this come into life, you ask? Well, rather logically, actually. And now for something completely different: a 917 with flippers.

Shelby cobra mod for gt legends