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67BoB,
You may want to take a look at BBM.
http://bearblockmotors.com/

A Mercury K code is a 289/210hp whereas a Ford K code is a 289/271hp.

Here is my engine block:

Blair Patrick is active on the FE Power forum: CaptCobraJet.

15" x 6.00"

C5ZX-1007A

Paul,
Is that a 1962 Buick color? 😮 Ouch!
It looks great though!!
Steve

That is how I found mine some 45+ yrs ago (I'm second owner).
This really highlights the problem of: 'words once written take on a life of their own' which has been so problematic for the accurate restoration of these first year cars.
If only we had something like the NCRS.

Now if only the myth of the 15" x  5 1/2" wheels could finally be dispelled....

champagne beige

This is all pretty good, but perhaps needlessly made complicated. A valve can't get any more 'closed' than when on it's base circle.
The C7FE is a basic Sullivan symmetrical lobe.
I always put 4 paint daubs at each 90 on my damper, but that's not even necessary. Similar to the Mopar gouge posted, two complete engine turns in quarters with both covers off will catch all of the lobes at their nadir wherein they can gapped (remember they can't get any more closed). A couple of minutes!

Of course shoptalk of esoteric lobe assymetries, reverse radius inverse flanking, 'unique' accel/decel ramping etc etc preventing access to the base circle really do not relate except in the most rarified of arcane automotive circles.

Another poster alluded to the use of a jamb nut atop the crimped nut (like A Boss 302). For me this always worked best, usually using another 'crimped locking nut' flipped over. 1920's technology but simple and effective short of shaft mounts I found.
Many use poly locks successfully (and God bless em), sometimes though if not exactingly torqued/ or sometimes guys add and 'extra' 1/8th turn or so to perfect the clearance---stress can be placed upon the top threads of the stud and result in stress/strain breakage of the stud tip threads within the poly lock.
Again this shouldn't happen in theory if done exactingly but it can induce a problem.
Many ways to skin a cat!

Steve Saleen is a very credible guy, but the pics used don't line up. It appears as if there are three GT-350s.
The white/ black /green 65 is NQR 390. That is a High Performance Motors CA plate number for us 65 trivia buffs (mine NQR 842 like it's HPM contemporaries).
The red car (perhaps a 66?) is ZNT 976. It was wrecked in Turnbull Canyon which gave rise to the purchase if 'SFM 417' in 1971 which is shown as the subsequent white race car.

Dan,
Thank you (as always) for your substantive postings.
My interests are historical accuracy (which is always evolving!)
I am familiar w 'Cobra Pilote' and was piqued by its seeming speciousness. It picks up at CSX 2001 and would leave one to believe that the Shelby Cobra was conceived and built in Pennsylvania. This may not be untrue.
Where I disconnect is CSX 2000. There is a timeworn belief by many that the Shelby Cobra was initially created in Dean Moon's shop and that Hugus' story, while not untue, picks up from that minimized point. In candor: I don't know.
I was a bit hesitant to make this posting for fear of appearing snarky which is certainly not my intent. As a researcher though, the adage of success 'having a thousand fathers' is a constant  point of vigilance.
Respectfully,
Steve

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I'll presume this is a serious question.
The Cobra's progenitor was Auto Carriers LTD est 1901.
The first Shelby Cobra was built at 10820 Norwalk Blvd Santa Fe Springs California.
There is a lot of accessible basic research out there.

The 'Playboy' DC-9 was not parked at SAI but at the adjoining former 'West Imperial Terminal' now the 'Flight Path' museum.
The rampage between, while not part of SAI, was used for cargo offload for SAI though:

North American Aviation at one time had manufacturing along the entire length of 25L, the 6501 hangers were the last remaining.
Specifically the 6501s were where T-39s were last manufactured. Note the 'Product Development Sabreliner' sign still hanging in the upper RH photo.

The parked 707s are due to the Pan Am-TWU labor action September 1967.

A small sub-note: that TWA 707 in the pic went down at JFK in 1969. Killed all on board.