nikbj68: Don't get me wrong. AC does have a storied past and I respect that. They also had the missing peice CS was looking for at the right time and the right place. I give AC credit for having the basic chasis and beautiful body shape that we all know and recognize instantly today as a Cobra. I do recognzie their contribution. Without AC the Cobra as we know and love it would not exist. Probably anyway.
AC as I see provided the earthly or physical platform with which CS and his talented crew, engineers, mechanics and drivers worked majic and transformed it beyond, way beyond what it started out as. It was Shelby, in my eyes anyway that transformed a little sports car into an icon.
Kinda like Cinderella.
Same basic girl but WOW! much different after that wave of the wand. But for that wave of the wand we'd be asking "so who the hell is this Cinderella chick? He didn't stop there. He also thought of, created, designed a Cinderella with a Dolly Parton bust line i.e. the 427.
Shelby was that magic wand.
My view. Just seeing what Trevors take is on it.