Shelby little involvement in creating the Cobra

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Originally Posted by Russ Dickey

Shelby wasn't focused on winning Le Mans in '65 as much as he was the overall manufacturer's championship, which he won. And the "Shelby 427" you reference - do you mean the 427 Cobra roadster or the Daytona Super Coupe? Because the latter was shelved before it ever got off the ground - not because of being any sort of failure but because in '65 Ford had put a large portion of the GT-40 program under Shelby. Some might even say that Shelby might have focused more on the GT-40 program, as Henry Ford II had basically told him his job was on the line.

All of the chronology of this can be found in AJ Baime's book "Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans".