[Trevor Legate]

Just a thought......

CSX 3019 completed a full season in Europe in 1966, racing at the Nurburgring 1000K (against the GT40s - I have photos to prove my claim - see next book!) and also at Spa and the Targa Florio where it naturally crashed. Whip out your Shelby Registry at once. Driver was the American lawyer Ed Freutel, so anyone connected with his crazy effort must have, or seen, copies of some kind of FIA papers?

(It was one of the 2, 427s he took to Europe, one as a spare and sold to John Woolfe via John Tojeiro and it was the spare, 3167, that set the acceleration records made famous in the Guiness Book of World Records. 3019 ended up in the hands of Brian Angliss.....)

Thomas:
We have been debating the merits of the over-looked AC289 Sports that was a very desirable Cobra. I encountered one of the very few Shelby 427S/C's in the UK yesterday and I know why the AC289 is the best of the bunch....in my humble etc