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thanks for the ford images link. A person could od on all the images to view and purchase.

Did anyone know that Henry Ford II smoked? Ran accross two head shots of him lighting up. Have never seen a photo of him with cigarettes until now. 

Anyone familiar with JL Henderson. What little I know, he was Shelby's assistant and did a lot of leg work on various projects.

I met him years ago and he was an absolutely nice person.

Any retrospective details around?

Filed under if anyone knows:

Did NASCAR teams (then or now) do manifold flow testing, not that they would reveal what they found, but details might have eventually leaked.

In discussing manifold flow, does reverison into the runner when the intake opens have any flow impact or is it too small to notice.

per Zora Arkus-Duntov: ". . .one man's thinking aloud on the subject."

Two observations.

I suspect that NASCAR Cup teams have been all over intake manifold flow efficiency but I doubt they would ever reveal details.

As for selling magazines, one editor who I would trust to accurately explain flow details would have been Hot Rod's late Marlan Davis. Why he never did will never be known.

Just a reminder that the 63 1/2 Ford Galaxie and Falcon Sprint were introduced in Monaco, where the Falcons were entered in the Monte Carlo Rally.

Good, another Shelby production written by a screen writer who doesn't know cars. Plus painting HFII as some megalomaniac when in fact he green lighted the program. How about Shelby punching out Leo Beebe again. What about Phil Remington, chief engineer? In the movie he was Phil, because it was on his jacket, and was Shelby's assistant. Yet Shelby said he was one of the driving forces behind the team success.

I'll pass.

Car spotting addendum

Once again, spotting background cars can be as interesting as the main image imho.

In reply 181 photo, just to the right of the dude in the red jacket is a Mk 1 Cortina with a black trunk lid. Guess some custom paint accents were added.

Where were the '68 and later 302s built and where were the '82 and later 5.0l built?

believe the article was written by brock yates

FWIW

reminds of the GT40 shots in the French film A Man and A Woman. The Man is a test driver and one of the cars he drives is a GT40. It was released in 1966. Don't know if this could be the same. Nevertheless the film has some of the best car-to-GT40 shots ever imho.

Ford France was a subsidiary before Ford of Europe was formed.

For the french language challenged, ecurie on the door is french for stable

How about defining perfection as doing what the car was designed to do: win races and ultimately a championship.

Not completely sure, but I have stayed in Holiday Inns.

Page layout is similar to Sports Car International formally published by Ross Periodicals.

As woke as Ford has become I'm surprised they just didn't buy out the Formula E series.

If that occurred, I guess that would mean they would use a Mustang Mach E safety car.

File under its a small world after all (give or take a few decades):

I saw the Cobra when it was on display.

Purchase date of 2312 is my birthday. Who knew.

I have no information on the magazine.

However you might be interested in reading about the Intermeccanica Torino/Italia and Frank Reisner, the man behind it, in Automobile Quarterly Vol. IX No. 3 (Spring 1971). Not only that but he was involved with the one-off 1965 Mustang station wagon and John Fitch's Phoenix.