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Whatsacobra: Agreed with regard to the apparent opinion distilled from the above post that "no man is an island". But without one man's talent and vision and drive the others who were as you describe just "hirelings" and who no doubt helped make it happen all probably would have been doing other things during the relevant time periods as opposed to making Cobra and GT 40 history.

It was Shelby who brought in the "right" people such as Brock, Remington, Miles, Ohlsen and all the others who made the Cobra, Daytona and GT40 "happen". Without Shelbys success with the Cobra and the fact he made them an icon in their own time and the fact he knew how to "win" I'm sure had something to do with Ford picking Shelby and his band of merry men to make the GT40 a winner.

That man with the vision, talent and drive and chuztpa (to borrow a yiddish phrase) was Shelby. Without him none of it would have happened or happened the way we know it.

I see this as unassailable.