Shelby little involvement in creating the Cobra

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Originally Posted by Joe's Garage

So now we're back to this ...



Fortunately we have that black and white print in the chassis manual to fall back on ...

See that's the problem. The statements in AC's manual leave out the rest of the story as Paul Harvey would say and to borrow a phrase from LMH is intentionally deceiving leaving the reader to believe the cars design genesis sprang from AC testing and development.

While the changes to the Ace to bring the prototype Cobra to the production stage Cobra were designed by AC for the most part their manual is deafening in it's silence on where the etiology of directed changes came from. They came from Shelby American. That's crucial to bringing the Cobra into existence. The designing of the changes to carry out the desired modifications could have been done by any competent engineer or fabricator such as Remington but AC was the logical place to design the changes SAI wanted as the changes had to be incorporated into the production car.

The production body and chassis was constructed and changed per changes directed by SAI with wiring and then shipped to SAI for installation of drive train. The original "kit car" or the Superformance of it's day.