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Pm-d you about C3 temp sender

Hi All,  Thanks for you input.  Does anyone have a few photo's of the early hub?  Not on a car, but lose?

Thanks

Cory

my bad, brain of a squirrel... if someone doesnt beat me to it, ill try to rememebr next time im at the building

In my opinion, if you couldn't talk about the man while he was alive, You shouldn't be beating him down Now that he is dead and unable to say anything. As the british say, that's just bad form.
It's just like the people that are now trying to besmirche The memory of Caesar Chavez, 33 years after he died. Not saying he was guilty or not guilty. But why not say something a long time ago?

       Roy

On the one hand, I agree in principle with what you are saying Roy.

On the other hand, I don't think holding someone to account for their actions is "beating them down". It is what it is. Dead or alive, Dave was a flawed human being just like all of us are. Frankly, I have always admired how charitable the person who bought his negatives has been over the years to have never publicly held Dave to account for it all.

Balls and strikes... nothing personal.

Kind regards,
Vern

Looks like an exceptionally honest/nice car.

Kind regards,
Vern

This has been one of those things kept on the "down low" over the years. Now that he has passed, the truth can more freely come out.

Pete Brock and Steele Therkleson took quite a few photographs during their daily activities... somehow the credit for those shots got attributed to Dave 

Kind regards,
Vern

Vern, it was one of your old posts that I used for reference of the inside printing. I was hoping to get a reply from you; you are the man! Thank you so much for your reply, I highly value your expert opinion.

Best,
Steve

Appreciate the kind words and always happy to help!

Kind regards,
Vern

interestingly, i have seen factory dyno sheets for the 325 engine and the particular engine that the sheet recorded made just over 360hp and 360tq. In comparison, a full race, weber'd Cobra engine made 388hp but only 320tq

That is for sure an original first printing. Pretty sure the current owner of it would have gotten it from me.

Kind regards,
Vern

[quote author     =Bob Gaines link=msg=231210 date=1773700370]

Excellent, thank you JD!

I believe I already told you that info .  
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Ya know, now that you mention it,...

I'll get a better pic of the hub on the Group 2 when im at the building (most likely tomorrow)

Here you are! Not the greatest angle but this is the shorter, solid aluminum hub used with the 16 inch wheel. This is 5R002 testing at riverside. I was trying to find a picture of 002 at Green Valley later... I assume that the hub was changed prior to the race since the car was restored to "as race" on that day specifically.

Excellent, thank you JD!

Cory, I believe the no fire order, no S1MS version Dan pictures there is the version of the intake which would have been optioned on mid to late production 289 Cobras on rare occasion. Today tons of small block Cobra run a small letter and 3259 but, as I am sure you already know, very few 289 Cobras actually recieved that intake as a factory option.

It is a very rare version of the S1MS intake for that reason.

Just adding a little color to the thread hopefully.

As an aside, another option for your intake having the "Cobra" wiped could be that another racing outfit wanted to run it but had a reason that they didn't want it to say "Cobra". Just a thought. Lots of possibilities. Neat piece!

Hey guys,

Sorry to resurrect such an old thread... but on a 67 Shelby... completed at SJ late December and completed initially at SAI Jan 17, 1967... would that car be "early" enough to need the "late 66" style sill plate emblem? I assume not?

I have an NOS set of the two line, coil snake version which I planned on using but just wanted to make sure that the CS emblem was only for VERY early cars.

Kind regards,
Vern

Shelby American also ran 325ci cheater engines at certain tracks in the R Models and probably Group 2s as well. These were 289hipo based engines.. different from the DOHC stuff.

I believe they were run at circuits where tech was not as evasive and they put out a bunch more power and torque, obviously.

Interesting to hear that SAI did some testing of this engine in 2196. I have never seen a photograph of the car running that engine but I suppose anything is possible.

Kind regards,
Vern