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Old 06-27-2011, 08:37 PM
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Ray:

I worked in that building with the brick wall from 1963 through 1966 while working for Shelby. The portion with the bamboo shade was the machine shop where Malen Lamero worked and the sender block portion to the left was the dyno.

When Peter Brock started designing the Daytona Coupe he had Ken Miles get comfortably situated in a mock up chassis and started taking measurements from there. Ken was much taller than Dan Gurney or Dave MacDonald ( you can see this being done on page 93 of the book Carol Shelby by Dave Friedman).

If you are having a problem welding your aluminum I am teaching welding at my shop in Willits. Two day classes for steel and two day classes for aluminum. I have bin welding aluminum since 1963 with O/A and now use and teach with the Cobra ( Hen-Rob) torch. I spent some time with Ron Covell at the Santa Cruse meet and he is now using my method.

Feel free to give me a call at 1-707-459-2523.
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