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Originally Posted by Tom Kirkham
The Daytona coupes had a 90 inch wheelbase. The 427 Super Coupe did not run until much later. The original design of the 427 cars had a lengthend chassis, but AC Cars had already bought the main rail tubes cut to length so they were stuck with a 90 inch wheelbase.
Where did you find the reference to 3 inches?
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Tom, In the Daytona Cobra Coupes book, Page 190. Bill Eaton was the guy who was told to add 3" to the chassis & fabricate engine mounts to suit both the Alloy 390& SOHC Cammer. This as all done in the USA before the chassis were shipped to Italy for bodywork.
Tinmansunbeam- The car with three vent holes in the front was not the Flip Top, take a close look,it has a conventional hood as per ordinary Cobra. Flip Top did not have that!! I think this was the Sebring 'Teddy Treebagger', first 427 leaf spring car. However the Flip Top did go thru several different vent experiments during its development, look at the two seperate radiator exits of car when first tested versus single louvered panel & opening of car at Nassau.