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Originally Posted by David Kirkham
1ntCobra,
When we first started the company and had our first 289 FIA car here, Peter Brock came by and told us our oil cooler scoops were not correct. (They looked similar to a 427 oil cooler scoop.) We found out when Brian Angliss of AC cars made replacement bodies for the 289 FIA cars through th 70's and 80's he made the oil cooler scoop look like the 427 oil cooler scoop because it looked "better." Somehow, that stuck as what an original car was supposed to look like. No "original" car ever had that scoop...
The 289 FIA cars we made for Shelby, however, had the 427 type scoop in them. That is what they wanted. Interestingly, you know that scoop is not original because the 289 FIA brake duct scoops will not fit on the nose of a car that has the 427 type oil cooler scoop in it.
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We copied a car that had an Angliss FIA body. That is why our first cars had the incorrect oil cooler scoop in them. It wasn't until Peter Brock told us that we knew that we had copied an "updated FIA" version of the car. I was told that Brian hated the original FIA oil cooler scoop and updated it to the "427 style" oil cooler.