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Old 12-17-2009, 02:46 PM
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Nice work Computerworks, you found one. There is another one taken from a bit further back, a bit higher ariel view, and it really shows the gap between the Flip-Top and the Vettes even more. I think Rich has a photo that he puts on display sometimes in front of the car.

What's not evident in these photos is how low the cars sits and how low you feel when you are sitting in it, and how the "chopped" body sort of hunkers down over the chassis.

This photos was also taken at WSCB by Brent Mills or Dan LePage (they were side by side shooting) but you can see from ground to top of the door how the car is slammed down. You feel more seated down and in between the frame rails than on top of the chassis, as they designed this particular car.



After I drove it, I spoke with Peter Brock about it a bit and described this. He shared some thoughts and comparables around this chassis and how it was more like the Daytona Coupe setup than the Cobra. I may have this goofed up in saying it, sort of indicated this car was more like precusor chassis prototype to the Daytona and shared some of the same ideas. I had a photos poster with me and asked him of all the Cobra cars on the poster, which one was most like the Daytona and he said the "fliptop" and signed his name for me next to the car photo. I still have the actual poster that both he signed for me with the Fliptop photo and Dick Smith signed his car pictured too on the same poster by a stroke of luck. Its hanginng in my office today.
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