« Reply #45 on: April 28, 2020, 01:18:57 AM »
Think this is the one I originally posted on the crashed forum, best version I have...
. Thermactor car eh?California?
Likely but not a forgone conclusion. Thermactor cars ended up in non mandatory states sometimes. It depended on things like color and trans and if the combination was needed to fill a dealer order somewhere else. Most cars were built by SA on speculation to fill dealer "orders".
The man is George Elliott, who at the time was the Editor of Popular Hot Rodding (and my future boss.) Cool guy, knows his stuff, and is a naturally talented driver/racer.
PHR's offices were in West L.A.
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Surprising to see theses valve covers on the car way back when.......
I believe the article was about installing valve covers and the time frame that it occurred in was after Ford bought/took away /what ever the real story is the Cobra trademark in 1967 from SA. Consequently all of the intakes, valve covers,oil pans ,air cleaners etc. that Shelby sold after market could not use the Cobra trademark from that time forward. Instead the items had to have the Shelby name . Shelby made money promoting the Shelby marked items and not the Cobra marked items so you can understand why they showed up in a article about installing aftermarket valve covers.
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