The pics are appreciated by me John but how about top views?
Aren't the dual Dominators for the 69 B2 factory team car and those are serial numbered?
The Dominator carburetor and intake manifold story is so awesome. There were several series of Dominator intake manifold made up. I have owned several of them over the years. This is actually the first one I ever owned, however I let it go in 1987 trading it for a set of chrome Magnum 500 wheels. I then went through several versions trying to get back to this intake manifold.
Yes each intake had an XE or SK number that told what was different about it.
This intake manifold had two ports that someone had filled with clay to change the shape of the port. This intake is $11 of the final series. I was talking with Larry Ofria who I worked for way back and showed him the intake. He asked me about the clay, when I told him I took it out, he told me that Shelby paid him to put it in to improve the intake manifold ports. Oh, Well,
I think that I have shots from above of the intake manifolds from that same series. I'll check, if not I can get them out of the storage facility and shoot new ones.
The Dominator (Not Yet named that yet - BTW) was technically doomed at this point, However unbeknownst to FoMoCo and Holley an insider friend of Ronnie Kaplan told him about the new carburetor and he arranged to liberate two pair out the back door and secretly developed an intake manifold for them. Not knowing that AMC had any FoMoCo showed up to the first race of the season. The SCCA tech people started to explain to the FoMoCo teams that the carburetors would not be allowed when a Ford executive noticed while passing the AMC pits that AMC also had the new monster carburetors. Originally he was quite upset that someone else had the new trick carburetors, however once he got back to their team cars and was told SCCA was not happy. He told the SCCA tech person "Anybody who wanted to get them could, go look at the AMC cars they have them.
John