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Awesome find.  I like the color combination. 

I'll be there both days, looking forward to it!

Yes

http://www.saacforum.com/index.php?topic=9789.new;topicseen#new

I know but if we do many posts, maybe it will get here faster!

A watched pot never boils. Let it be, like Mr Becker said.

It's been a few months so I thought I'd bring it up again.

Believe it was brought up again recently in another thread. "It's in the hands of the printers". That is all.

In my opinion, Carlisle has turned into a largely Friday and Saturday show. Most people bug out after Saturday and crowds are light on Sunday and a lot of vendors have already packed up and left. I would say Friday is the best day if you're looking for things before they get picked over. Saturday draws the highest crowd.

I always look forward to the next update of The Coralsnake website, almost as much as I look forward to an email from SAAC HQ announcing the availability of the next volume of SAAC Registries.   

I enjoy learning new and interesting things about these cars, especially the early ones. Thanks for the information!

^^^^^^^ Excuse my ignorance on two items in the above pix.^^^^^^^ But I'd appreciate knowing...

1. Magneto?  Didn't know the Cobra race cars ran those in 1962.

2. Intake manifold.  Aluminum or cast iron?   Why paint an aluminum intake?

Believe that would be the Spalding Flamethrower ignition system perhaps?

Can't comment on the intake manifold

My friend, Chris Layton has recalled the story to me on when Herbie bought the car out I believe Manhattan. Said he walked in to the dealership and told him he wanted to car. they did not believe him. He left went to the bank got cash came back and paid them!  I have not watched the Jay Leno interview yet. So hopefully I'm not reiterating on what happened with the car. 

Chris

True story.  Salesman barely gave him the time of day, stated something like, "Do you know how much this car costs?", basically blew him off.  Herbie came back with cash and bought the car.  He has stated something along the lines of, "The car would never mean as much to anyone else as it does to me", as it was his first big purchase after he started making money as a musician.  Gross oversimplification of the story, but basically that is what happened.   

Beautiful car and nice article. Digging the hubcaps!   

IIRC, the 260 cars were rated 260 horsepower with a 4V carburetor.  I was under the impression that the 260 engine as used in early Cobras came with a mechanical cam as well as a higher compression ratio than the garden variety 260 of the day.

What's great about Holleys is that there is such a variety and you can keep trying different combo until you find the right one. What you like someone else may not.

+1. Well said.

This might be apples to oranges, but many years ago I owned a 1974 Mustang II that the PO had installed a 351W into. I tried many different carburetors on it back then, being a teenager working at a local speed shop in the DC area. Finally happened upon a Holley 600 DP that a local fellow had been using on a small block Vega that he drag raced. The choke had been removed, including the air horn, it was painted orange and just looked ratty.  That carburetor was just RIGHT. I bolted it on, set the idle speed and never fiddled with it again.   

I'll go out on a limb here and predict we'll see it by 12/31/21. 

Nice!  Maybe the value of the Autolite C8ZF-D that's been sitting in a box in my basement just went up a few bucks.