Rod Coppins

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Stu, apparently the `optimum' length for each pipe was 30 inches, so with the bends being different radius',etc, this is how the staggered height came about where each pipe finished at that length. The `prototype' pipes in your photo were too small diameter and too long, even though the car went well with them. The chrome pipes and the bonnet scoop were the brainchild of Keith McGregor, who incidently ran one of my father in law Barry Pointons' workshops and did a lot of work on Barrys' Chev V8 Coupe which was also raced previously by Rod Coppins ( Barry bought the coupe less motor/box, as the Tec Mec engine which was in the Chev Coupe went into the Zephyr). Keith and his brother John started Heat Treatments Ltd, and Keith is a well known ex Hydroplane, Flatbottom racer, and as Rod told my father in law at the time, `shit Barry, she goes now!'