I was just explaining to a co-worker today that repairing a damaged one-of-a-kind racecar is a drop in the bucket for someone that can afford to own and race these vintage cars.
The damage isn't permanent: I'm sure some of you remember the flip-top Cobra getting messed up after #198 blew an
oil line some time back. And, of course, sitting in the Shelby display was a pristine Flip-Top.
The other thing that occurred to me in looking around the Shelby display was that, for all the emphasis all of us here place on trying to replicate the original cars, even the originals sported newer technology---as observed with the Flip-Top Cobra with it's steel-braided lines and red and blue anodized fittings. I noticed many of the originals sporting newer technology.
I thought the mounting of the remote
oil filter on the Flip-Top was pretty cool and clever.
Wow, Ron Walton owns one of the original Daytonas? Very cool!
DD