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Saw an original 427 Cobra with a retrofitted SOHC
..thought it was that car. That back at the first SAAC convention. That car was driven from Colorado so it must have been set up to be pretty reliable.
I remember seeing a picture in a book of a SOHC 427 lying on the floor in some shop in the Sixties with Cobras being fabricated in the background. Could that have been the engine they were going to put in the Daytona coupe being built in Italy for the big block? I don't have the book I saw the picture in, and maybe it was some Stateside shop after all. I never read any quotes of Shelby saying it was a great engine or had potential beyond the regular 427 FE side oiler. Maybe they were exceedingly hard to get in the Sixties unless you were a drag racer.
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