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06-10-2008, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Jac Mac

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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