| Dave
MacDonald in #98 leads potent competitors through Turn 7 in one of
Carroll Shelby's Cobra factory entered "King
Cobras". These cars were late-series Cooper Monacos with full-race
Cobra Ford engines.
Roger
Penske follows MacDonald. He won the 1962 "Times Grand Prix"
in the Climax-powered Zerex Special shown here. The car started life
as a Cooper F1 car, and appeared in 1962 with controversial single-seat
bodywork. In 1963 it was a conventional two-seater. Bruce McLaren
bought the "Zerex Special" and installed a B.O.P. aluminum V8; this "Cooper-Olds"
was the first car of the illustrious McLaren lineage.
Bob Holbert follows in
#99 another factory "King Cobra". Dan Gurney in Briggs Cunningham's
Genie-Ford #61 chases the leading
group. |
