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I'm probably wrong, but I thought the notariety of the Cobra was not that it was a new invention or design but that it was the first successful "American" auto built by an American racecar driver/chicken farmer with a grudge against Enzo F. Plus the fact that you could go down to your local Ford dealer, buy one and drive it around the streets of Anytown,USA. Now I could be wrong because I only speak from what I read. The only thing that I knew for sure in 1964 was that I liked eating applesauce.