BTW, Sal and Bruce...
I've about had it with folks digging up Smith's 198 speed and their slamming doubts. It was officially recorded, Ford folks said it was over 200mph with their own clocks. A few of Shelby's folks doubted it (just happened to be 289/Daytona lovers), but they were the only ones...and it was pretty clear they didn't like the idea that a privateer did it.
We've heard the pros and cons here for the past decade. A few of us have seen the documents on Dick's wall and detailed discussions about taller tires, swept back windshields, partially blocked front opening and redline busting revs when someone's in the last few laps for the championship pretty well indicate that the clocks didn't seem to be off.
Now it's been 40 years since then, and not one person from that day at the track (which did not include naysayers like Shelby or Remington, BTW...they weren't there) has come forward to dispel the official mark, despite Dick walking around with "198" on the damn car for three decades, and showing up and facing folks at numerous SAAC events. And now we have the likes of you two claiming some ability to have an effect on determining what happened 40 years ago. I think not...neither of you have a hundreth of the right stuff to comment on an event in his life.
He's dead...he passed without anyone disproving his mark. And that's the burden naysayers have and have never met...disprove the documentation. He never had to prove it, nor can he now.
On these pages, he went 198 and that's it. And I WILL phuking enforce it. He was a personal friend of mine for 30 phuking years, well before I gave a sh!t about Cobras, and I've had enough. Don't like it...tough. Go blab away your thoughts on it at a Lightening or Cheetah forum.
And don't respond or you'll be taking time off...it's like that.