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I'll bet that the crew learned some new swear words from CS that day.  The old man must have been livid.

No one has mentioned it yet, so I thought I would:  Isn't the ribbed block indicative of a service replacement?

Very sorry to hear of your loss.  Hang in there.

The black paint on mine is glossy.  Also, mine have two holes drilled on the top pad for spark plug wire separators.

Might just have been a matter of a different date/run of manufacture at the valve cover factory.

I don't know.   Are yours polished or chromed?  Mine are chromed.

I never had the pleasure of meeting him, but my condolences and best wishes to his family and friends.

The ones shown above are very similar to the ones on my KR when I bought it in 1982.  (Yes, I realize the finish isn't correct...thanks to Mr. Gaines and others.)

I've posted about these previously, but here they are again. 

Note the different font for the same S7MS6582 part number (my covers compared to Mike James') and its orientation in relation to the mold marks.

Thoughts?

My $0.02 (or 0.018 Euros)...

The color photo of the rear of 5R002 is Turn Nine at RIR...probably after a rainstorm.  I can't ever remember seeing green grass in the infield like that.  Must have been a rare day.

Wayne Thoms and Ralph Poole were Petersen Publishing contributors, or possibly employees, at the time.

The ad for Larry Reed sports cars in the first set of magazine photos Steve posted is interesting.  That Westchester (near LAX) location was later Billy Krause Honda.

Quote from: Szabo on August 02, 2019, 03:30:48 PM
Hello again...

i still do research on all sites, discover magazines and looking for the little breadcrumbs

on an old Car Life Special Edition Magazine i found a pic i never saw befor ...

Unfortuenally no exact Date was on the Cover ... only Copyright on 1965 was standing ...
so i must do some other research and for sure when the Special Editon is from Car Life so maybe do some
advertisment in his own monthly magazine...

i found several Advertisment for the Special Edition, the earlist was described to found the Special Edition
on 18. May 1965 ...

so the Pic was surley made befor ...

but lets have a look on the Pic ...





i found this very interessting ...

when i looked at this upper pic i am suggesting this one on the backside Carter Ave. Parking lot ...
you can see this Parking Edge bricks on the ground ...
the hole Place is a little bit hectic organised

on the foreground i think there are 2 GT350 R, maybe the first one every made ... the back panels are have this
enlarged darker aera which we all now from 5R001 and 5R002 ...

and on the backside we see the hole lot full of GT350 ... i think this should be the first produced in Carter Ave.
and i think are about 30 - 40 GT350´s

What you think about this ?
Do you agree with me or have opposite thoughts ...

Let me just know ...

Steve: I have that magazine...somewhere. I'll do some digging and see if I can locate it.

Cool photo.

Looks like Carroll's saying: "Here you have to take the inside line to set up for the next corner...and what are you doing tonight, honey?"

Hey guys, I've been away on a 35-day road trip and am finally home and getting caught up.

Steve: Great new thread!  Sorry I missed contributing to everything that you and Richstang and others have posted while I have been on holiday.

The Riverside Raceway official publication was produced by Petersen Publishing Company, as Robert E. Petersen owned RIR in those days. Notice that the cover photo says "Petersen Pub photo."

Petersen was also a good friend of Carroll's. I traveled with them both many times when I worked for each of them...(late 1980s thru early 2000s.)
I wish I could've been there in the 1960s, but I was in elementary school.

Another great job of everything, Steve!   The details are wonderful.

As for this photo, in the background, does anyone know why two or three notchbacks were there?  They look like vinyl top cars.  Or are they convertibles with their tops up? 

Agreed with Mr. Gaines. 

This possibly/probably doesn't pertain to Mustang tanks, but I've been told that on Corvette tanks (C2 and C3) if you use a non-vented cap the gas tank itself can implode a bit as the gas gets used up and a vacuum inside is created.

It's all fun and games until the sidecar passenger eats the riders.

Would love to see photos.

In the late '60s, I had a dark red Cobra big-block slot car, with a sidewinder motor.  My dad took it to his work (Hughes Aircraft, where he worked on the Space programs) and had one of the electrical engineers tweak it up.

After that, it was the fastest thing at the big Revell slot car track in my neighborhood until it inevitably spun off the track or went airborne on a banked turn. Was a lot to handle at speed, much like the real thing.   

Good times.