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Uncharitable or not, the roadster was never designed with aerodynamics much in mind. AC just copied a Ferrari Barchetta body and went from there. That same chassis was used under the Daytona, which did manage another 40 mph with the same 289. The roadster, 152 tops, Coupe, 190+. No contest. It took the Coupe to win the GT Championship, and it wasn't brute force that did it. It was aerodynamics. Exactly what Shelby American intended and achieved.

The populist notions of the Cobra don't really hold up in the historical record or the track.