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People

# Peter Brock

Shelby American designer of the Daytona Coupe

| Label | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Born | New York, New York, 1936 |
| Nationality | American |

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The record

American designer who, at Shelby American, designed the aerodynamic body of the Daytona Coupe; the Coupes helped Shelby American win the FIA International Manufacturers’ GT Championship in 1965.

Peter Brock was born in New York on 15 November 1936 and grew up near Sausalito in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Art Center and joined General Motors’ styling department in 1956, aged 19. In November 1957 Bill Mitchell selected a Brock sketch that was refined with Chuck Pohlmann, Larry Shinoda and Tony Lapine into the XP-87 Corvette Sting Ray Racer. Brock left GM in 1958.

After leaving GM, Brock returned to California, worked at Max Balchowsky’s Hollywood Motors and prepared a Cooper-Climax for racing. In 1961 Carroll Shelby hired him as Shelby American’s employee No. 1. Brock ran the Carroll Shelby School of High Performance Driving, hired Bob Bondurant as an assistant, and designed the company’s logos, merchandise, advertisements and car liveries, plus Shelby components for the Mustang GT350.

CSX2287, the first Daytona Coupe, was built from October 1963 to January 1964 around Brock’s aerodynamic body. Brock designed the body; Ken Miles handled engineering and testing; John Ohlsen was fabricator and Phil Remington chief engineer. The subsequent five Coupes were partially built in Italy. In CSX2299, Dan Gurney and Bob Bondurant won the 1964 Le Mans GT class; in 1965 Shelby American won the FIA International Manufacturers’ GT Championship.

### Closed body, same chassis

The FIA allowed special bodies on a chassis of which at least 100 examples would be sold; Cobra roadster sales had exceeded 250. CSX2287 retained the Cobra roadster’s chassis, suspension, engine, transmission and other mechanical components.

### Low drag without a tunnel

Lacking a wind tunnel, Brock shaped the Coupe to minimize drag and used a truncated tail. The National Historic Vehicle Register records that his aerodynamic body enabled CSX2287 to exceed 180 mph.

### Body, engineering and construction

Brock designed the body, while Miles handled engineering and testing. Remington’s crew took CSX2287 from drafting table to track in three months without final drawings; Ohlsen was the fabricator and Remington chief engineer.

The stations

1. 1956–1958 General Motors Designer, GM Styling
2. 1961–1965 Shelby American Designer
3. 1965–1972 Brock Racing Enterprises racing team Founder

The house

[![Shelby](https://hiconium.dev/_derived/images/marques/full/shelby.png.w256.q75.webp)](https://hiconium.dev/manufacturers/shelby)

Credited through Shelby American.

In the register

## One file carries this name

- [Shelby Daytona Coupe Designer · Shelby American 1964–1965 €11M 1964–1965 €11M Rating 97.0](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/shelby/daytona-coupe)

The files above are the register's own record of this name. [The people index](https://hiconium.dev/people) holds everyone the register credits.

In their words

> “I designed the body while Miles took on the engineering and testing of the car.”

Peter Brock · Classic Motorsports, 2025

Sources

- [mshf.com](https://www.mshf.com/Peter-Brock-10-1607617.html)
- [autoweek.com](https://www.autoweek.com/news/people/a41069378/why-designer-peter-brock-is-the-master-of-motorsports/)
- [autoweek.com](https://www.autoweek.com/news/people/a1858341/pete-brock-turns-80/)
- [artcenter.edu](https://www.artcenter.edu/connect/events/virtual-car-classic-the-1950s.html)
- [brelegacy.com](https://brelegacy.com/about-us/)
- [brelegacy.com](https://brelegacy.com/the-designs/shelby-american/)
- [scca.com](https://www.scca.com/pages/peter-brock)
- [classicmotorsports.com](https://classicmotorsports.com/articles/peter-brock-drives-shelby-cobra-csx2299/)
- [caranddriver.com](https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a69597234/peter-brock-drives-the-daytona-cobra-coupefinally/)
- [corvettemuseum.org](https://www.corvettemuseum.org/peter-brock/)
- [driversfoundation.org](https://driversfoundation.org/register/4)
- [shelbyamericancollection.org](https://www.shelbyamericancollection.org/cobras-coupes/1964-daytona-coupe-csx2299)
- [simeonemuseum.org](https://simeonemuseum.org/collection/1964-shelby-cobra-daytona-coupe/)
- [thedrive.com](https://www.thedrive.com/news/39140/this-2000-hp-electric-corvette-c2-is-the-handiwork-of-two-car-design-legends)
- [weathertechraceway.com](https://weathertechraceway.com/blogs/news/peter-brock-named-grand-marshall-of-the-2026-rolex-monterey-motorsports-reunion)