shelby...Just conversation...geezz

[Ron61]

Deacon,

I am not sure just what you are really asking but from what I interpet it to mean is you don't think anything built outside the United States can be a legitimate Shelby. If I am wrong in this interpetation I apoligize now. But the fact is, the first Cobra ever built wasn't built in the United States. From The Shelby American Original Archives 1962-1965. "The prototype Cobra was built at AC Cars in Thames Ditton, Surrey, England in January 1962. The prototype was based on chassis number CSX2000. AC mechanics fitted the prototype with a 221 CI. Ford V-8 Engine for testing and evaluation. After some modifications to the chassis, the prototype chassis-with bodywork but less engine and transmission was air freighted on February 2, 1962, to Caroll Shelby in Los Angles." Once it reached here it was taken to Dean Moon's shop where they put a 260CI engine in it and then they started building them there at first. So if you are going by the fact that to be really Shelby cars they have to be built where the first one was, then all of the Cobras built in L.A. don't qualify either as the first one was built in England. As long as his name is on them legally, it makes no difference where they are built, they are Shelby cars.

Ron