Shelby little involvement in creating the Cobra

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Originally Posted by Brooklyn-427

The British sportscar market was alive with other brands that all had ties to other engine manufacturers Bristol and Jenson were not sportscar manfacturers they built luxury gentleman express GT cars, that wasnt what Shelby was looking for.
Healey`s fait had been sealed with the tie in with Austin, unfortunately as history speaks before us Bristish Leyland killed them off otherwise a Rover V8 engined 3000 would of been the future for that car.

Basically without AC, Shelby may of not had the sucess he had overall, remeber he was just a worn out old race driver with health problems and big ideas!!!! It takes 2 too tango.

Now the whole AC Shelby Cobra project is fuelled by legend and big deep pockets that owes its thanks the guys like Arntz and Angliss for the vision they both had seperately.

Completely fallacious. Without Shelby the Ace would have remained a nice little sports car and forgotten by history for the most part. No Carroll Shelby and Shelby American no Cobra. Period. As to the Cobra's success, AC had very little to do with that. Ever heard of Remmington, Brock, Miles, Gurney, Bondurant, McDonald.. ? I could go on for a awhile but won't.

Lets stop re-writing history shall we?