intake allowed in the class

Some rude person was asked back in the day to define a "legal manifold": he said "If it says 'Edelbrock' on it".

To me as long as the carbs were in the same configuration has nothing to do with where the carburetors sit, it has everything to do with what they completely changed: do only 4 cylinders (1 4 6 7) share one side of the carburetors, and the other 4 (2 3 5 8) share the opposite side?
No?
How is it the same?
Read my article (for Mopar Action):
http://victorylibrary.com/mopar/intake-tech.htm