While I personally would not want a GM power plant I don't have NEAR the problem with that as I do some of the monstrosities masquerading as replica Cobras. Now some, like that recent thread about the Japanese replica Cobra built on a small car chassis. Hey, kind of cute, interesting little car, I think they got it mostly right!! It's not bad, it's just different. Some replicas I've seen are really bad, there just plain ugly.
Now come on, be a realist, you KNOW that YOU have a "line" you wouldn't cross. That line varies for every type of car, hot rod, replica Cobra, GT-40 or whatever. Sometimes, folks cross that line and dam, you just gotta chuckle.
Shelby wasn't all wrong when he was talking about the replica market and himself wanting to build a better, nicer edition. He has a point...
Old Yeller, Allard, others were in fact "pioneers". Very few to one of a kind, thats in the true hot rod spirit.