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Old 06-08-2013, 02:17 AM
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Originally Posted by xb-60 View Post
"The official name of the car with FIA is Shelby AC Cobra. I gave 'em permission to put AC in there. They were whinin' like babies over there, they wanted their name on it, and Ford talked me into it.
Great quotes Glen.

This one sounds like typical Shelby bull5h1t to me though. The car was an AC and there is no getting away from the fact, no matter how much Shelby claimed otherwise. Shelby came up with the idea, but it wasn't exactly a breakthrough idea as it had been done many times before. Presumably, it was Shelby who registered the car with the FIA so he could probably have used whatever name he wanted and including "AC" was the right thing to do.

Paul
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