Shelby little involvement in creating the Cobra

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Originally Posted by LMH

Well, without you being a wise$$, that's pretty much right on. The only thing I would add, and w/o being a wise-a$$ myself, is that AC made changes and improvements as well based on their own testing/racing. Their (AC) involvement in racing wasn't to the extent of SAI for sure but there were improvements made to the cars non the less. Racing improves the breed. (Wish I knew who said that!)
Larry

Well I can live with that but Tony raised a very good point. While I have no doubt AC made some tweaks based on there own use I'm confident that the major production changes making the car a winner and making it a completely different car than an Ace came from SAI.

Also while Shelby was not a mechanic or engineer he was a very talented driver and could drive a car and communicate what the issues were leading to improvements. If memory serves me he was one of the first to drive the prototype at Silverstone immediately revealing some weaknesses. Additionally he was surrounded by a a lot of guys who were talented in both.