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Originally Posted by Dan Case;1****32
Before the first coil spring chassis was created (to become what the world calls a 427 Cobra) all cars in the AC Cars/Shelby/Ford arrangement were leaf spring chassis. The one car Ken Miles at al. stuffed a Ford FE engine into was a leaf spring chassis car. The racing coupe (a 'Daytona Coupe') stretched for a FE engine and then cut back down was a leaf spring chassis.
Leaf spring cars and coil spring cars are very different vehicles that share lots of parts. What is true in one series may or may not be true in the other just as leaf spring chassis before CSX2126 and those CSX2126 and higher have many differences.
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To add to Dan's post about CSX2286 chassis being lengthened to try and fit a BB but then completed as a 289 Daytona. CSX2196 was a leaf spring chassis fitted with a 427. It was the only 427 Cobra prototype, that became known as the "Turd" or the "Fliptop"