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Old 03-11-2018, 10:45 AM
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The SAI team Cobras that were entered in the 1964 Sebring race did not utilize the the individual headlight protection screens as the previous years Cobras did. Depending on the SAI race mechanics assigned to each Cobra the tubular "bumper" and the extra screen material attached to it for protection were not all the same. That being said the 1964 SAI teams Cobras were subject to the same irregularities as the previous year. The irregularities also went as far as the auxiliary driving lights that were used on each car. A good study of this irregularity is to look at in period photos of CSX2259 and CSX2301, both used different auxiliary lights. In 1964 both headlight and auxiliary light protection consisted of taping layers of paper over the lights util the lights were needed. The P700 lights were used on the the SAI team Cobras up until the race at Sebring in 1964 and then seem to have been mostly abandoned afterward.
That being said the currently available reproductions of the headlight protection screens are not fabricated in the same way as the originals were, as Jeff had previously stated.

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