02-21-2008, 07:34 PM
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I meant as an owner he had them restored
I stand corrected. My excuse is, generally, unless you are going into a big article when you say in passing reference "and then Carroll Shelby had his Daytona restored" you don't mean he did it himself, but he consigned it to someone, a specialist. The big movers and shakers don't pick up hammers and tongs and do it themselves. My question about the Falcon Challengers though is:
1.)the finish at Sebring wasn't that far down (in fact better than when the first Cobras raced at Sebring) so why didn't Holman & Moody get the go-ahead to mass produce them?
2. The bodywork in the only picture I saw of a H & M Challenger looks a bit crude. Who did it?
Andy Hotten's shop? Dearborn Steel Tubing (which might be another name for Hotten's shop?) or some good ol' boys in North Carolina?
3. One explanation on the net said the Falcon Sprint program came out of the Falcon Challengers but I wonder if pretty much the mechanical layout was the same or the Falcon Challengers had major differences and beefing of the frame so that only the same size engine and gearbox were the same.
When I go to Fabulous Fords Forever in Buena Park, I will give the Falcon Sprints a new look. I spent many hours cruising Woodward in one in the Sixties
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