5 mph crash protection? Fiberglass?
One of the things that bothered Pete Brock about the R models is that he was overruled on them back when.
What the continuation car shows for "bumpers" is what apparently he wanted to do.
This is the difference between what a race mechanic/engineer wants to do and a designer like Brock. He had difficulty explaining esthetics to a bunch of skirt chasers that thought that was a case of beer and the perfumed strippers panties in their back pockets?
They didn't take him seriously with his ascot and probably shot paper clips or threw spitballs at him when his back was turned?
Shelby on the other hand just nixed them because it would have taken money out of his share of the monthly Ford payment. So there wasn't any support anywhere for those bumpers.
I understand both sides. They both have a point. It depends on how much beer I've had and who got the panties as far as who I would side with?