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Old 11-29-2003, 06:34 PM
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Originally posted by mikiec


Ron,

What book does the best of covering the 427 model?

Mike
Of Friedman's? ..really none of them.
The problem with Friedman is that he clearly felt the company changed in character when they moved to the airport facility and began doing a whole lot of new things.
Friedman quit Shelby American in July of 1965; by that time they had only finished 10 427 Comp cars... so he had taken very few pictures of the 427. I think he referred to them as the "beginning of the end".

"Shelby American Racing History " has the most pics of 427 racing cars. This book is a compilation of pics he never published in earlier books.

Mills' books do have some detail info, as well as Legate... but it's basically a re-hash of the same text that's in the Registry.
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