Thread: Book review Brian Leban's book Shelby and AC Cobra
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Old 10-27-2021, 08:41 AM
Trevor Legate Trevor Legate is offline
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I believe Brian was commissioned to write the book many years ago. He wrote about numerous cars even though he had little personal experience of any of them (as with many writers!) so he put together a book using contemporary references. As you do. Thus a lot of the copy focuses on the UK side of the (long long) saga. As an Anglo-American product, the Cobra story varies depending on which side of the Atlantic you live and whether you prefer the Shelby version of events, claiming 'his' car/design as 100% American ("There's no such thing as an AC Cobra" etc). The truth is out there, probably in the middle of the Atlantic....
After all this time, does it really matter any more?
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