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Many moons ago, when the prairie grasses grew tall and the buffalo would drown out your wife's jabber; I bought what I believed to be an R-Model oil cooler--it had cobra cast in raised letters on the side.  A reputable vendor, lets call CoAu, Inc. sells a complete kit it says is accurate in details.  Should it have the COBRA lettering on the adapter?  Anyone recently buy such a kit, and what was your experience, and satisfaction?

Looks more of a NASCAR application, so I didn't post to SAI racing, but interesting (to me) to post

From this recently compiled descriptions of iterations of intakes versus VIN, I believe I need a S2MS-9424-A intake where the COBRA nameplate was cast as a full rectangle (where-as most have clipped the 'A' for increased distributor clearance). 

The discussion about color changes on a concours participant, ( http://www.saacforum.com/index.php?topic=5278.0 ) brought out the discussion of cars that aren't quite concours.  I believe the current show classes leave a significant number of people from showing their cars, that would otherwise attract a lot of discussion and appreciation for what the cars were, when they were.  Let me throw something out there, along these lines... to attract those cars not otherwise concours correct, but faithful representations of their time and owners... a Period-Correct class.  To prevent it from just being a Concours spill-over, require no less than 2 major and 3 minor visible, owner-performed modifications.  All modifications must be appropriate to within a + - 5 year window of production.  Owners must have documentation of the part/modification being available and practiced within the window.  Anything not documented or outside that window is a deduction, or basis to not be in the class.

While I have thought of benefits to the club, owners, and how to determine definitions for this, I will leave that to further discussion.  Thoughts?

There was a discussion in the 1966 GT350 forum about SAI finned aluminum roadster oil pans that bears relevance to the small block cobras:

Quote from: TJinSA on April 03, 2019, 02:13:46 PM
It would also be useful to note there two configurations touted to be "original".  One fits 260s and 289s; the other will accommodate the longer stroke of the '68 and later 302.  The former, to the best of my knowledge was never reproduced.  The later, by design, is an over-counter piece.  They can be distinguished externally by looking at the fins toward the back of the pan.  Original 260/289 pan fins are consistent in depth and height, front to rear.  Over-counter pans, on the other hand, had an additional wedge area cast into the interior of the pan to clear the 302 crank's counterweights. While only about a 1/4", it is visible from the outside because while the fin heights remained the same, the depth of the grooves between them decreased to virtually zero at the point of the end of the wedge taken from the interior. 

Thus is a basis for discussion: "What does original mean?"  Contemporaneous with and for Cobra roadster production, or marketed by SAI for the mass market?

Here's a BlogSpot with GREAT format on the GT40s and Mirages you have to visit.  Many in this forum may be familiar with Gerard's blog on GT40s and Mirages in 1/43rd, but I just found them.  It breaks down virtually every chassis, race, and year of the cars, including roundel numbers, position at finish, with drivers, augmenting pictures of them in scale with contemporaneous photos and historical discussion of the real cars.  Started on October 2014, I found it a treasure trove of reference material and entertainment.

Hope you are as pleasantly surprised and delighted as was I:
http://fordgt40mirage.blogspot.com/2014/10/coming-soon.html

Stumbled across this Slotcar of 5R539, driven by Chris Tuerlinckx & Claude Dubois in the '67 Le Mans, by Revell.  Look closely at the color photo:

the link: https://lemans.slot-racing.fr/le-mans-1967/ford-mustang-17-revell.html

Each Slotcar on this site have at least a dozen photos of the live cars in action-- from 64 through 69 Fords:
https://lemans.slot-racing.fr/ford.html

And a few Cobra:
https://lemans.slot-racing.fr/cobra.html

A a Sunbeam to boot:
https://lemans.slot-racing.fr/sunbeam.html

Where would I find a List of Judged & un-Judged classes with the requirements as to what is expected in each?

Quote from: Brant on March 14, 2019, 11:03:44 AM

Quote from: TJinSA on March 13, 2019, 11:30:03 AM
It's been my experience the 'L' stands for limited slip, not Locker. While a limited slip will drag the outside wheel if having been parked for a while, they do not have the ratcheting experience of a Locker.

While that may be true, on the early GT350s, Detroit Lockers were offered and installed, rather than Traction Locks.

Who installed the lockers in 65 Shelbys? Did SAI breakdown a rear diff and replace the spool? or did Ford install them when they built the rearend?  If it was an RPO Ford would have done it, if not, SAI did the work.  Chuck Cantwell was pretty clear when describing the coordination of the building of the basic car that Ford fltly refused to do ANYTHING that was't an RPO.

I tried to save a PDF of a Carroll Shelby interview in My Gallery, but kept getting an error message I needed to create a category first, so I'm going to try this to share a PDF of an interview with Car Exchange published in Feb 82. 
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ktXp-jc8Z-hHwmRcJi1csOACuOcmg-Lg

I remember them remaking these things and I never bothered to buy one, but is this one TRUELY an original?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/VERY-RARE-NOS-FORD-SHELBY-G-T-350-COBRA-WORLD-CHAMPION-ADVERTISING-BUTTON-D482/113669412929?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

I'm in an OCD kind of mood, but not NOS mood...

Per the subject; no need to go much further other than for a 65-68 -era C-4 automatic.

While looking through things going to recycling I found this; thought if it's a interest, I could provide the entire article-- a six page how to break-down and rebuild the pesty little buggers

From this recently compiled descriptions of iterations of intakes versus VIN, I believe I need a S2MS-9424-A intake where the COBRA nameplate was cast as a full rectangle (where-as most have clipped the 'A' for increased distributor clearance). 

Have not seen one of these before with the badge in the sweep area

eBay item number:  292938803299

here is a tach that was purchased from ford years ago and installed. the car was wrecked but the owner removed the tach and put it back in the box where it sat in his closet until now. it has the column mount on it but also has the unused dash bracket as well. this has been untested but I can't see why it would not work as it has been inside all these years. look at the pictures of the box because it does have faded writing on it as well as the 6 in the part number has been marked with a marker. C6AZ-17A 326-A

Starting bid:US $800.00

https://www.ebay.com/itm/292938803299

The above 'sticker' (lacking a better description) is said by the vendor to have been used through the '65 and into the early '66 production.  They are generally quite accurate in their products.  If this is true of this radiator cap top, how far into the line was it observed?

$125 SUN-X, SUN VISOR, Dated 7G, Nashville plant Carlite. 51 1/2 years old, no more than 16k miles. I did not clean before picture. Still installed, awaiting buyer.  A couple of stories describing this windshield; take your pick:

1.  A large, loaded Canadian goose had just finished successfully dive bombing the Corvette convertible leading my car down PCH-1, but was unable to pull up soon enough to avoid my car.  Goose down not included in sale.

2. Ray Wolfe, Ray's Hi-Performance (formerly manager of Hi-Performance Motors, yes, THAT Hi-Performance Motors) purchased my car in late Sept 1967.  It's late, initial sale was due to some damage to the '66 to include a damaged windshield. 

Last recorded mileage before Ray's purchase was 22.8k miles; car currently has about 38k miles. No streaks, scratches, rubs, repairs, bulls-eyes, significant chips or flakes; just average wear for windshield with this number of miles.  Looking to put a date-coded windshield in my car-- going repop. 

$125 plus ride and insurance. Tom Kubler San Antonio, TX 160 character text to 80sicks-3too4-30for3 or message tjinsaATyahoodotcom. price will be adjusted as market established, but if I say it's yours; it's yours.  I'm in no rush to remove the glass, I can hold on to it for an extended period of time before I start my own repaint. Will ship in same material my new windshield arrives in.

Okay, I'm a slacker, by not contributing regularly to forums I mine for information, BUT what happened to the HIPO 289 forums?