RE: P-47 PYLON RACER???
I just checked my Raceplane Tech book, (Bearcats and Corsairs) and it shows a photo of a P-47 back in 1947. Bill Odom entered it in the Bendix race and it sprung a fuel leak just before the event. So there went the chance to race it! Checkerboard cowling and wing tanks, it would have been cool.