11-19-2007, 02:50 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Anglesey,
UK
Cobra Make, Engine: Hawk 289FiA with Le Mans hardtop. AC CS(X)2131,289 (my father owned it from `67-`73)
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Originally Posted by Tom Kirkham
My understanding is that the first two cars had aluminum hardtops and the rest of the cars were fiberglass.
I have been told that the LeMans ops are good for a half second at Goodwood. Due to poor vision out of the car and how hard it is to get in and out of a car with a LeMans hardtop, I suspect that if the tops were worthless no one would run them, and there sure seams to be a lot of them...
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I believe all 3 of the Le Mans hardtops were Ali, but the standard ones are fibreglass.
I don`t recall seeing a Cobra running without a hardtop at the Goodwood Revival... I`m guessing that it`s regulatory, maybe someone who knows could confirm that, but I`m surprised at how little difference it appears to make at a fast circuit like Goodwood.
In 1968 at the Silverstone 6 hour relay race, My Dad went to scrutineering with the hardtop fitted, but because the fuel filler was inside(I don`t know if the pipe from the hardtop-mounted filler cap was fitted), he was told to remove the hardtop.
Was it during a Henri Pescarolo driver change in the RAC TT a few years ago
that the sidescreen got in the way and was unceremoniously torn off by the pit crew? 
Is it just because I`m using Mozilla, or are there no pictures in my post dated 10-14-03? 
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