03-27-2002, 08:47 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: San Antonio,
TX
Cobra Make, Engine: Former owner: JCF 289 slabside, ERA #329 and 424, GTD "Essex Wire" GT40; currently enjoying Hi-Tech 427 #147
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Not so unusual an occurrence back then. At the 1963 Road America 500, Augie Pabst and Don Wester took an under-2 Liter Elva Porsche to an overall victory against the mighty Shelby factory Cobras of Ken Miles, et al.
Miles had a reputation as a giant-killer in both his R1 and R2 specials and various Porsches. When the Porsche factory would not give him the latest updates for his 550 Spyder, Miles and his patrone--I think it was John von Neumann--built a Porsche-powered Cooper, quickly dubbed a "Pooper". They rapidly dispatched most of the Porsche Spyders, to the dismay of Stuttgart, who soon had them the sought-after updates--
Bob
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