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Old 06-10-2008, 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Jac Mac View Post
Tom, In the Daytona Cobra Coupes book, Page 190. 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.
I believe the thought that there was more than one 427 leaf spring proto has been disproved.

The Sebring car with the 3 cooling holes was the chassis that was converted into the fliptop bodied car.
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