Shelby interview in Road & Track

[Jac Mac]

Originally Posted by Ant

Cut that out Jac Mac, you are starting to sound like me and a lot of the guys in the UK, Aussie and NZ who stick GM engines in anything at all.

Having said that CS did the amalgamation with AC/FORD and I know hindsight is a great thing but someone would have stuck a V8 in that chassis sooner or later, but it probably wouldnt have had the backing of a guy like CS, and the timing was right for the SCCA racing etc in the sixties. I think he should be happy the ol skinflint, he is always trying make money sometimes questionable at that. When someone comes up with a good idea there will always be copiers etc and I say he should get over it and be happy that his creation was endorsed the way it has been.

As I pointed out to Lovehammer Ant, if it had been a Chevvy I wouldnt have been as interested!. The other thing is that guys like Nethercutt ( Hope I got that right in spelling ) had been transplanting Buicks/Fords/Chevs in Ferrari TR types since the late fifties and as we know there is more than a passing resemblance between the AC shape & Ferrari and a link with the designers/copiers of that decade, so really its hard to say that they were not all copying a design & principle ( Fit a big V8 in a small chassis) that had been done before. Hell there were even Kiwis fitting Morris Minor bodys on Ferrari single seater chassis etc & calling them All Comer saloons back in those days- perhaps that guy should be claiming royalties off everyone thats draped a saloon body over a formula chassis ever since.