Not Ranked
Then you know, in the corner on the start of the Cobra series ledger, it says, Carol Shelby, CS! I got schooled on that also, when I thought A, B, and C, stood for 1,2,3. But that leaves the father of the Cobra RS, for RuddSpeed, which if your correct, should have been C, then the Cobra D for small block and E for big block cars. A is for the early AC engine, B for Bristol. I would still love to see who, and why, wrote Carol instead of Carrol! In the AC Chassis, book MKII means coil spring car, but in the leaf spring cars in the AC drawings office and stores! As you know AC was a hobby for Derek Hurlock and his nephew Dennis, so things were pretty loose, after all, they had at least 20 other firms, many with government contracts, which as E Wilson McComb said in his book, AC (Shelby) Cobra, "their fingers in so many pies ---- some of them positively oozing gravy!"
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