Researching any info re: Paul Cunningham, Competition Cobra privateer

[USC_COWBOY]

Originally Posted by Nedsel

To my thinking, there are too many loose ends that have yet to be tied up. USC Cowboy said in one post he was 75, then later that he was going on 78. So I'm accepting of the idea that he allows a little leeway in the details. He said that his mom was inconsolable when Cunningham was killed, yet someone from Shelby American brought her over some things in a cardboard box from the car and they still had them. Yet all he has shown us is a rusty Ace chassis. Is that what was delivered in a cardboard box? Damn big box. And how did a 3 year old chassis from southern CA get so rusty? Why would anyone at Shelby American have had an Ace chassis lying around anyway? Was the chassis kept by his mother in the storage unit? She was inconsolable, but kept this reminder for over 40 years? And if it was stored instead in CA, it took Michael almost 50 years to start asking questions about it? And why does Comp Classics continue to dispute the possibility that Lanse Hasselrig - who owns a respected body shop in LA and has a few Pebble Beach winning paint jobs to his credit - ever owned the car? He is IN several of the photos from 1967 bringing the car to his storage space, but we should simply dismiss that he ever owned the car? Lots of details here simply don't add up.

Where to start???? From the beginning...

My age, I was born November 6, 1944 making me 77.

The chassis pieces were brought to my mom's house where she and my sister lived. Upon my mom's death on September 13, 2001 I was designated the executor of her estate, I had to go through all her things as an estate inventory, that is when I found the chassis parts in her storage. I asked my sister Lynn about it and she was the one that informed me about the delivery of the parts and who the person said they were. I do not even know if my mom ever saw them or even knew they were in her storage as they were simply in a large cardboard carton. The chassis was cut in half, about 4 foot sections.

Why did SAI have the AC Ace chassis? A good question, perhaps used in the early days of chassis development.

[twobjshelbys]

Originally Posted by USC_COWBOY

Where to start???? From the beginning...

My age, I was born November 6, 1944 making me 77.

The chassis pieces were brought to my mom's house where she and my sister lived. Upon my mom's death on September 13, 2001 I was designated the executor of her estate, I had to go through all her things as an estate inventory, that is when I found the chassis parts in her storage. I asked my sister Lynn about it and she was the one that informed me about the delivery of the parts and who the person said they were. I do not even know if my mom ever saw them or even knew they were in her storage as they were simply in a large cardboard carton. The chassis was cut in half, about 4 foot sections.

Why did SAI have the AC Ace chassis? A good question, perhaps used in the early days of chassis development.

Or it wasn't someone from Shelby American. Again, a 40 year second hand memory with nothing to document it. As Perry would say, Hearsay.

[USC_COWBOY]

Originally Posted by twobjshelbys

Or it wasn't someone from Shelby American. Again, a 40 year second hand memory with nothing to document it. As Perry would say, Hearsay.

If not SAI, then who and more importantly why?

The Paul Cunningham story begins at Cotati in July 1963, prior to that Abidin per all the race related documentation and photos.

In my opinion, the CSX2049 Cobra transferred ownership just prior to Cotati.