[Excaliber]

By the way, I'm still wondering HOW the new Cobra with it's EXTENSIVE use of aluminum (aluminium?) could be as HEAVY as 3000 lbs.??? That seems SO odd.

One thing for sure with the original 289 FIA cars. There EXTREME light weight was by far their biggest advantage. They had about a 1000 pound advantage over the Vettes of that time! Even today if is very difficult to get a Cobras weight down to 2000 or less, which I believe the FIA cars were!

2000lbs\375hp= 5.3 lbs per horse? What DID the well equiped 289 of that era put out for horse power?

Ernie