[Trevor Legate]

WhatsaCobra

You were correct to castigate me for my assumption about too much power. I really must engage brain before attacking keyboard. Yes - way too much foot. The Cobra just flew around the car park making luvverly noises - I'll settle for that. It was his car and his tyres so who am I to criticise?

I agree regarding comments about the on-off Sprite throttle. I just drove it third (sometimes fourth) and I ignored the brakes and just threw it into corners in the sure and certain knowledge I could sort the mess out half way round. The folly of youth! I thinks thats why I un-nerved any following car as I led them into corners sans brake lights, so they tended to assume the corner was not too severe......ashamed to say I used to play the same trick when I used to leave my "yound ladies" home late-ish at night. I would leave the town observing (almost) the speed limit and usually had some speed-freak up my exhausts by the time we cleared the limit. This led into a wonderful "ninety-left" bend that I could just get round at 60 in my 911 - the smart-arse behind usually did not. Silly game - call me irresponsible.

The Phillipe Hazan book comes up for sale but rarely - last copy I saw was not far off $700 in todays money. The details re CSX2142 can be found in the Shelby registry

The camera car on the Le Mans film was indeed a GT40. Ought to know the chassis number but I've forgotten (again)