Thread: [Dangerous poll #2] Who played the most important role in the Cobra?
View Single Post
  #46 (permalink)  
Old 10-03-2010, 06:14 PM
Historybuff Historybuff is offline
CC Member
Visit my Photo Gallery

 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Riverside CA, ca
Cobra Make, Engine:
Posts: 601
Not Ranked     
Default Lee Iacocca was the man who said "yes" first
When Shelby brought the first prototype to Dearborn
and presented it to a few Ford brass, it was Lee Iacocca
who was impressed with his zeal and said "yes" and got him the first
$25,000 which allowed Shelby to order car no. 2. So although all the other people were important, without Ford's backing the Cobra would have been a one off car. Iacocca eventually got so much publicity re the Mustang success (cover of TIME magazine, etc.) that Henry Ford II summoned him to his office and fired him on the spot
Reply With Quote