10-21-2013, 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by LMH
Thanks guys! Anyone know if the base would be blue, gold or black?
Larry
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I would expect a 1963-64 Fairlane assembly for HP289s. Ford called them the "tuned assemblies" when new. People call them 'double hump lid style' today. Base wise what that means to me is a base with the filtered air hose nipple with a rubber cap to close it off since Cobras didn't use filtered air for the choke hot air pull off circuit. Bases were spray painted black on the surface that faces the intake manifold. The only paint anywhere else was over-spray. Sometimes only a faint mist of tiny black droplets found a way to the element side and sometimes a lot of heavy over-spray reached the element side.
If you find an unrestored base painted black over gold I believe that to be an early base originally painted gold for production that didn't get used, that was subsequently resprayed black and put into the service parts channel. Most of the ones I have come across were just dress up parts not associated as coming off a factory installation. Ford advertised the dress up kits widely.
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Dan Case
1964 Cobra owner since 1983, Cobra crazy since I saw my first one in the mid 1960s in Huntsville, AL.
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