Nice start. To answer the question not all of the 427 Cobra had the scoop. I was doing some rearch and found cobra csx3102 did not have the scoop. My guess is the car that MPC used to measure was one of those cars.
Love the new rusted version. Love that you made the lok abandonedbecuse you aabandoned the project. Hope you do another shiny black version later as I thught it looked good.
Looking good. One thing I've found to help with detail painting is to use a lacquer for the base and then water based acrylics over that. If you don't like how it looks you can use a qtip with water and redo it.