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Quote from: rhjanes on November 29, 2023, 10:23:52 AM

The SHELBY factory never completed the SUPER COUPE.  They went bankrupt before that happened. 

History repeats itself........ Both prototypes both completed after sale into private hands.

It happens a LOT.   Toss in the designs that do reach some level of completeness and then stop due to any number of reasons.  Racing rules changed, no development funds, new ideas prove to be BAD ideas (dangerous). 

Thank you to Bob and J for their willingness to share their knowledge!

I don't think I've seen a 1967 GT500 with the Thermactor in person. 
The Concourse photo's are great. 

The car pictured in the magazine article above is not CSX 3054, which was the big-block "Super Coupe." If you look closely, you'll see it looks like one of the original small-block Daytona Coupes. How can that be? Maybe the car in the article is CSX 2286, which was the last of the coupes to be finished even though it was the lowest chassis number. Its completion was delayed by a request by Carroll Shelby to lengthen the chassis by 3 inches and install a Ford 390 cubic-inch engine rather than a 289. Aha. A 7-litre Cobra Coupe. Except that it never got built. It was determined that the standard 289 version was what was needed, and the 390 car was cancelled. But it appears that's the car that was written up in that German article.

AH.  Good eyes.  I agree. 

This is for daily drivers and other non-original cars.  I've been using Fumoto valves for years. 
https://www.fumotousa.com

Their latest are an improved design where you can rotate the valve prior to the final tightening on initial installation.  After that, a clip, flip the valve open and the oil drains.  It does drain slower than the plug because the Fumoto valve restricts the flow.  No more removing the plug.  I rotate tires when I change the oil on the daily drivers so I loosen all wheel nuts, jack up the front corner, start draining, jack stand that front end and go about rotating all four tires.  When I'm half done, the oil has drained, flip the valve shut, wipe up, reposition the drain pan and remove the oil filter.  Continue the last two tires and then install the new filter, one last check before lowering the car and filling with oil.  I can do it all in an hour (except maybe the F250) and have not removed a drain plug in years on the drivers.  The two classic Mustangs still have drain plugs but the 2008 GT convertible has a valve on it.

If you go Fumoto, get the locking clip with it. 

Check this for component ID first.
https://www.428cobrajet.org/id-starter

You used to be able to purchase a kit for rebuilding starters.  Not sure you still can.  they are fairly easy to rebuild.

Check this link.  Component guide from the 428cobrajet web site.

https://www.428cobrajet.org/id-carb-68

IF her estate actually includes some classic cars, I suspect they were purchased for investment purposes only.
Remember the crash in 1988.  Lots of Wall Street types were suddenly in classic car markets, art markets, having a wine cooler built at their estate which would store their 50,000 bottles of wine....they one's they were buying like a 4 year old in front of the Brach's candy bins at the Piggly Wiggly. 

Carefully go in and check each step in those pasted views above.  Then type in the forum/screen name of the person you wish to "mute".  It should autofill as you type it in.  Then read that screen carefully.  I don't have a way to "do over" right now but there was a step to doing it.  I then backed up to my "Profile" and went back in and the person I'd put in, did show up in the list of Ignore.
Now when I go to "recent posts", the threads/topics do show up.  However each of the people on the "Ignore" list, their posts shows up but it's simply a hot link that they are Muted and "Click here to see it". 
So you still see the post in lists and such, just not the actual post the muted person posted, unless you click to view.
Hope that helps.