[DougD]

Evan has taken quite a bit of ribbing on this subject, and deservedly so. But I can't help but wonder if this is like so many other things with Shelby American. Some mechanic probably hurriedly pop-riveted a bunch of rivets in place during some race somewhere. No Pete Brock sketch was prepared ahead of time. No careful measurement. Merely a response to fix a problem the best way they knew how. The rivets were an afterthought to prevent the hood skin from ripping off on the comp cars.

Now fast forward to 2001. Some original car somewhere gets measured by someone, and all of a sudden there's a "correct" way to put the rivets in. I'll bet that if you could even find two original comp cars that had somehow escaped the restoration shop all these years, the rivets would not be placed in exactly the same location or even be of the same material. When cars are hand built, and constantly being modified during the racing season, the idea that any two being alike or "correct" becomes pretty remote. So the issue then becomes whether you are replicating all Cobras, or just one. My opinion. Feel free to disagree.