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Biggie, if it pre-dates both the '68 KR and the Terlingua logo, we may have a problem...

Quote from: honker on December 01, 2018, 03:09:45 PM
I searched for Ski Country Specials, and this popped up, I first thought it was a spelling error !

"She Country Specials"   

Photo of one in the show room at Goodro Ford in Denver also.

Mike

Dang, we coulda met Buzz and Barney!

Agreed with Biggie. There's not a lot of selection in our stock sizes anymore, unless you go for the pricier bias-ply-look radials that Coker and others sell. 

For average driving, T/As are a good value and hold up well.  Not like the 1970s' versions of T/As that would hydroplane if there was more than 50% humidity in the air.   

Yep, I still use the vacuum hose method on my KR and other vintage cars. 

Great write-ups, and thanks for the additional info, everyone.

Unfortunately, not many average owners had that kind of patience, or tools, back in the day. 

Explains why more than a few of these cars had a crude hole torched in the inner fenders for direct access to the back plugs.

Kiwi knew his stuff. I shredded many a Goodyear with him, during our 25 years of working together and testing/building/thrashing/writing about cars.

IMO: That buildup he did is a great affordable setup for a small-block street car that occasionally sees a racetrack.  I hope someone has it saved from Forum 1.0.

Yes, that's what I think too.

The best shot might just be to approach the Westways magazine editor and suggest an article along those lines...how to find an owner of a vintage car.

I doubt AAA will divulge any insurance records/info.

Quote from: Coralsnake on November 28, 2018, 02:10:48 PM
It probably sat in AO Smiths lot, until it was shipped to KK Brighton. The reason it was renumbered is because it was unsold. Ford or a dealer is not in this equation.

Imagine that same photo location, but with snow covering the cars, as it most certainly would have looked a few weeks before or after. 
Cold & lonely '69s awaiting someone to love them.   

You might try reaching one of the writers/editors at their Westways magazine. 

Have a pitch for Westways or one of the seven ACE Publications?
Send pitches to: Harryman.elizabeth@aaa-calif.com or pitch directly to the Editor-in-Chief of
Westways: Leslie Mieko Yap:  yap.leslie@aaa-calif.com

Yes, it's very much still around.  I've been a member since the '70s, although have never attempted to trace any vehicle there.  Good luck and let us know. 

https://www.calif.aaa.com/

Randy,
I believe you're correct on that being Day Street in the background. I had the order of my RIR streets jumbled. Pigeon Pass was one more road further east than Day. 

Pigeon Pass was also a back way out of the track, but wasn't used for ingress, IIHC.

Yes, the RIR sign was in back of Turn 6. 

Speaking of the sign:  After the track was sold, but before it was completely bulldozed into the shopping mall, I snagged two pieces of the RIR sign's orange geometric shapes that formed the tail of the arrows.  (My avatar shows them.) But where they are today is anybody's guess.  Lost in some house move I made, over the years.

Is your right foot wider from all those years of standing on the throttle real hard?

If so, bravo!

Thanks for that pix. It's RIR.  The hills give it away.

Must be off Pigeon Pass Road, which was kind of a back way into the track. The main way in from Highway 60 was Day Street (and the big RIR sign would be visible in the pix.) 

You could also get in from Hwy 395, but that wouldn't have given this same viewpoint, IMO.

Randy, of those two, I'd guess Santa Barbara. Trees are correct, hills look to be too. 

I first thought RIR because of the trees, and similarity of the hills, but it would have to be at a far out part of the facility for those trees...not near the road course itself.

Also: Very rarely was the sky at RIR that clear and blue...it was mostly smoggy!
Van

Quote from: CSX2259 on November 27, 2018, 11:06:03 AM
There is far more room in an original 289 Cobra than a 427 Cobra and the seating position itself is more normal than in a 427 Cobra that has you twisted to the left to make room for the larger engine next to your feet. As a matter of fact the 289 Cobra has so much more room that there is a dead pedal fitted in the foot box to rest your left foot on.
I have converted both the aluminum and fiberglass bodied 289 based Continuation Series Cobras to the correct 289 foot boxes, it's not an easy conversion but it very worthwhile once done.

I was able to have a dead pedal built for my Kirkham 427.  Still have to dance on your toes for the pedals, but it's nice to have a foot rest.