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1970 Ford Motor Company prototype "Quarter Horse". I believe there were two of them, I have seen one in person....
High Performance 289 engine wise, the last regular production five bolt engines known so far were made (engine assembly date) July 11, 1964. The...
First 75 Cobras and 260 c.i.d. engines, the myth that will not go away. CSX2018 (18th production Cobra) received a High Performance 289 (HP289)...
These are not all great references but they cover the high points. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tojeiro...
[IMG] I like to use a 1969-70 Boss 302 PCV spacer with Ford 4100 series carburetors on COBRA high rise intake manifolds and the spacers would...
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Ford Motor Company over the counter accessory systems. There was a set of carburetors specific to 260 c.i.d. engines and another set specific to...
Educated guess. Someone took bolt on wheels and modified them to work with five "pin drive" hubs or hub adpaters, something done for many years....
American Racing Equipment made multiple designs of magnesium racing wheels for sports cars. They included steel adapters front and rear to work...
+1 Cobra CSX2427, the only Stage III Dragon Snake factory prepared drag race Cobra. The original owner used his yellow Thunderbird as his tow vehicle.
If you subscribe to Bob Mannel's online book on 1962-69 small block Ford engines, check out pages 4 and 5 in Appendix H. Sketches of several...
The SHELBY lettered (circa mid 1967 introduction) box ram 4V and 2-4V came out long after Shelby American stopped doing anything with Cobras....
Bob Mannel had access to Ford engineering files while working on his book. He gave me a rather lengthy explanation of why the six bolt design was...
Ak Miller started off with an A.C. ACE (pre-Cobra product of A.C. Cars). A thread in the AC Owners Club Forum indicates the ACE was powered by an...
Bob Mannel, I highly recommend his book, indicates that the 289 2V engine started production very late in 1962 which means it was a 1963½ model...
Just in case anyone is wondering, there was not "a" Cobra 4-2V induction system but family of systems. This one was developed on Shelby race 260...
QUOTE="cabong, post: 14285945, member: 9977"] It is made by Buddy Bar Castings, and is one of a limited number made. As I understand, Shelby had...
Shelby American started racing 260 powered Cobras with Ford iron 4V prototype intakes and a Holley carburetor. One of the period modifications...
You are welcome. As far as I know buyers are happy with Branda's products. I have purchased carburetor rebuild kits from the company. The founder...
The original condition unrestored XHP-260 ex-Cobra engine Bob analyzed had standard production main bearing caps. The bearing inserts were marked...
There were two different Ford engineering specials in the 260 c.i.d. size. Shelby American was not the only company to get these engines from Ford...
Note the extremely rare Ford-Weber 58 DSF two choke down draft carburetors created for the Ford 255 "INDY" aluminum engine program that got...
Hello from Bozeman.
Sounds pretty close through a desk top computer speaker :).
You are welcome. In very basic terms every customer race car was a one off; for any kind of racing the buyer had in mind at any level of...
Regarding custom colors of street and race cars from Shelby American. In general if you bought and applied any company’s factory mix for AC or...
The first drag car CSX2019 has only been completely painted twice as of the last time I examined it this century, by AC Cars (seen that way in...
CSX2427 was just painted custom ordered yellow as delivered. The owner came up with his own graphics and had them painted on. Most people will...
Correct. Sold new as a street car.
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