OCD wrote:Roger King wrote:An original Cobra, with its first lucky owner, and lower tube that looks, well, kinda straight to me...
He never owned that car Roger! It was loaned to him. Shelby was way ahead of his time (and the field) when it came to product placement!!!
Colin
Still got a straight nudge bar, though!
COB6029, the Haynes car, has a properly wonky job that actually appears slightly convex in the lower tube:
...but given the bends in the top curve, shows what later damage can do!
However, Colin's extensive research clearly shows that most cars do, and probably did, have a concave curve in this lower tube. I can't believe it was designed that way - the 'McQueen' car, still new at the showrooms, above, shows that it almost certainly wasn't. But like dictionaries, which only reflect usage of words, not absolute definitions, original cars now often (probably more often than not) show this curve. It may be due to poor manufacture, fitting issues or later damage, but they're there and that's that. I'm not sure I'd go so far as to bend a new bar to copy this for my reasons already stated, and it's hardly a diagnostic clincher for an original car. But either straight or curved is acceptable as far as I'm concerned.
just a note - stainless steel is right out...
