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1963 Sebring car #17 Reed / Karas
« on: March 20, 2018, 12:53:31 PM »
What was the CSX number of that cobra.
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Re: 1963 Sebring car #17 Reed / Karas
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2018, 01:00:38 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2018, 01:07:17 PM »
Thank you!
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Re: 1963 Sebring car #17 Reed / Karas
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2018, 04:31:25 PM »
Nice, Weber 48 IDM Weber’s and a Spaulding ignition!

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Re: 1963 Sebring car #17 Reed / Karas
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2018, 05:55:42 PM »
Nice, Weber 48 IDM Weber’s and a Spaulding ignition!

Did you notice the lack of a fuel log in front of the engine? Another view seems to show a metal tubing system going rearward?? I ordered a print like shown in the original post to see what I might learn from it.
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Re: 1963 Sebring car #17 Reed / Karas
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2018, 09:13:25 PM »
There's a nice color photo from the front view with the hood removed in the Revs Digital Library.
The photos are copyrighted & watermarked so here's the link...hope it works.


http://library.revsinstitute.org/digital/collection/p17257coll1/id/153494/rec/2
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Re: 1963 Sebring car #17 Reed / Karas
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2018, 09:27:33 PM »
Yes, both photos are very revealing!
I also like that you can plainly see the Harrison placard on the radiator.
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Re: 1963 Sebring car #17 Reed / Karas
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2018, 12:05:43 PM »
There's a nice color photo from the front view with the hood removed in the Revs Digital Library.
The photos are copyrighted & watermarked so here's the link...hope it works.


http://library.revsinstitute.org/digital/collection/p17257coll1/id/153494/rec/2

Thanks. I have submitted a request to buy a copy. Dan
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Re: 1963 Sebring car #17 Reed / Karas
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2018, 09:24:11 AM »

Hopefully the same photographer has additional pictures of #17.

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Re: 1963 Sebring car #17 Reed / Karas
« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2018, 11:49:33 AM »
There's a nice color photo from the front view with the hood removed in the Revs Digital Library.
The photos are copyrighted & watermarked so here's the link...hope it works.


http://library.revsinstitute.org/digital/collection/p17257coll1/id/153494/rec/2

Thanks. I have submitted a request to buy a copy. Dan


A digital copy was $40. Based on the photo the induction system and ancillaries didn't have the typical of the time period Shelby American details and that made it interesting. Ford offered basic kits for $1,230.70 retail under Ford sale number C4OZ-6B068-C in early 1963. (That was expensive. You might have been able to buy a no option Falcon for about $1,700 at the time.) The picture Ford published of the kit didn’t have a lot of the parts a Shelby American race shop installed system would have. I am use to seeing systems Shelby American installed and for a few years I had the third of three prototype 48 IDM1 based systems Shelby’s works installed on CSX2043.

So far this is the only installation picture from 1963 I have seen that didn’t appear to be a Shelby race shop installed system on a Cobra.  I have often wondered if anybody actually bought a Ford kit or the kit was just “for sale” under a Ford number to make them race legal.  (Probably will never know.)
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