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Originally Posted by REAL 1

How to you draw this conclusion when history is documented that between 1958 and 1960 CS had already conceived the idea and had the desire to build an economical V8 powered sports car using American muscle and had contacted the Hurlocks as of 1961 with his idea and already had the 260 ci Ford V8 on line for his project?.

This Mongoose couldn't have existed prior to 1962 since it used '62 parts. Furthermore, where is your evidence he even knew of the guys who created this one off "mongoose" or that it even existed? Further, the fact that mongooses kill cobras also gives us a hint as to which came first.

Digging a little deeper on that thread ...
When I bought Ace BEX1073,with V8 Buick a copy of the Rod and Track article came with the car, infering it was the Mongoose and one of three. Indeed the register at the time confirmed this! However during a sustained digging for the cars history, Mongoose/Scheberries never came up. Eventually I managed to contact Jerry Scheberries by phone in July 2003. He told me that he had only converted one car to V8 spec (Olds)for concours events, it was a 1958 AC engined one. Unfortunately he coud not remember where he got it or the chassis number only that it wsa entered in Pebble Beach in 1961 and that he sold it to a man called "Chuck Hallam" who somtimes acted with Burt Lancaster. Jerry sent me a collage of photos copied onto an A4 sheet depicting his red Ace registration ACA 237 (California plate) original AC engine and later Olds taken in the 60s. The car also has a single thin blade front bumper, flat screen and disc front brakes. Another photo of the car in the Nevada desert shows it with a racing number 44.