[Historybuff]

I beg to differ on little personal experience. It is a matter of record
that as a newly minted staff member of Motor Trend in the summer of 1965 my first assignment was to go with Mike Lamm the editor to a company called Shelby American at the LAX airport and view the new 427 Cobra. Plus I interviewed Shelby at least twice for my first book Shelby's Wildlife and he graciously wrote the forward. I was taken for a test drive in an S/C by one of his sweethearts, er, female assistants. I interviewed many of the surviving Shelby employees including Al Dowd and Phil Remington and Ford engineer Bob Negstad. So I can say I was writing about Cobras when most of today's Shelby writers were still in the cradle....I think that there will be a new era of finer scholarship where many of the mystery cars (such as two wrecks [put together into one car) and such will be clarified and the result is the surviving correct cars will be worth more. There's other marques that have no such effort and thus are of dubious value , such as Intermeccanica.