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Originally Posted by LightNFast
".......I wonder how many people believe Shelby’s race prepped 289’s were actually a 289? It was a lot easier to snow people back then...
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the sore loser Corvette crowd were on the race officials to keep things pretty "honest" in the Cobra/Mustang camp. Once the Cobras tried to race with an
oil cooler. Corvette racers complained, saying it was "modified" and not eligible to run in the stock class. So the Cobra's
oil coolers were disconnected, and still won the race. Using Corvette's logic against them, Shelby has the
oil coolers re-connected, and ran the same cars in the modified class, and won that one as well.
Not to say there wasn't some "creativity" shenanigans goings-on in both camps. And once the Cobra were overseas racing against Ferrari, the scrutiny became even more political.
Z.