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Post by robhart on Mar 12, 2017 16:10:34 GMT -8
It looks good. I wonder why the headlights were over painted.
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Post by afx on Mar 13, 2017 7:38:19 GMT -8
Back in the day they taped over the headlights to retain the broken glass in case of an impact. In lieu of cutting up a bunch of tape strips I just painted over the headlights (black Sharpie) to simulate the tape.
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Post by afx on Mar 13, 2017 7:48:09 GMT -8
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Post by dustymojave on Mar 13, 2017 14:08:30 GMT -8
Taping headlights was required for races that were not to continue into dark of night by most road racing organizations. In the early 60s, many road race cars were still driven to and from races. So tape on the headlights was something I had to check in Tech Inspection. If the car had glass, it had to be taped. Electrical tape was the most common as it was tough. Masking tape would tear apart with the glass so was not acceptable.
Looks kinda like Mr. Ginther in that #197.
The Cobra is looking sweet!
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Post by dustymojave on Mar 13, 2017 14:31:29 GMT -8
Oh...And some club racers would use contact paper (shelf liner paper) as it was often made of vinyl sheet and worked pretty well for the purpose. It was pretty strange to see a car roll in to Tech with (faux) wood headlights.
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Post by dustymojave on Mar 13, 2017 14:52:12 GMT -8
This headlight taping would not have been acceptable for races here. media.fotki.com/1_p,rrbdbtsqrkkwbsrxbbgwgwfkqrft,vi/brwbqgtbbxbsbfrdbrrxbrqsqrkst/4/1755924/13909480/tsinthetargafloriosicilyDH6M98-vi.jpg That masking tape as I said above would tear without doing ANYTHING to hold the glass from falling on a race course in a bump. Wrong tape and not near enough of it. Note that tires these days are pretty damned resistant to cuts from glass shards. But back then, they were VERY susceptible to such cuts. I remember a tire commercial in the late 70s that showed a truck driving in front of a car and somebody in the back of the truck dropping chunks of broken glass on the pavement and the car driving right over the broken glass. An amazing thing in those days. Broken beverage bottles were a pretty common road hazard then as there were no plastic beverage bottles. And other products were often packaged in glass too.
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Post by afx on Mar 13, 2017 15:36:10 GMT -8
I think the photo caption said it was Dave MacDonald. He is not wearing his signature helmet however.
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Post by randyditton on Mar 13, 2017 18:51:40 GMT -8
The black looks so good on a Cobra JC !!! That really nice interior needs that helmet on the seat. Looks like you need to build some more trailers to haul that great looking stable of cars. Randy
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Post by afx on Mar 15, 2017 3:36:36 GMT -8
Thanks Randy. I think I need to get to work on a hauler.
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