[Robert Evans]

I like this particular forum because it seems to have some sort of a built in filter...the waxer guys aren't coming in here to squirt off at the mouth with just a bunch of myths. We seem to be able to talk more sensibly here.

Fez;
One of the neat things about being able to talk with those who were "right there" when this was all coming down, is that they are very unbiased with their opinions. The Shelby guys were VERY glad to see the Cobra program come to a halt so they could get onto more important things like building real racecars, and Rem for one simply finds it fascinating that this piece of crap for a sports car has caught the attention of so many people! He hated the thing, especially when his ideas to improve the new 427 were shot down in flames in favor of budgets and available production capabilities.

Can you imagine how demeaning it must have been for him to have been on top of the sports car world with his work with Reventlow and the Scarabs in real modified racing??...only to find out that now you have to take this flimsy little ****box of a British car that was outdated to begin with, put in some new unproven cast iron small block Ford engine in it and make it work?

Even Dan Gurney, upon his first test of the 260 prototype Cobra said that the Corvette guys had nothing to fear in the Cobra. It was thru his determination that the car became what it was eventually.

You want to know where the Cobra places in Remington's list of his acheivements?? Cal Metal and I are in possession of almost all of his old scrapbooks and old photos of his past. He has photos of his Ford GT's and Daytona Coupes at LeMans and Sebring and Daytona, he has photos of his work with Indy and CART cars, he has photos of his work in GTP, he has photos of his work with Scarabs, he has photos of his days racing on the dry lake beds of So. Cal., he even has photos of his trek around the world for Ford. Nowhere does he have any photos of his work on the Cobras. Does that tell you anything?