[Historybuff]

so I gather inorder to be selected as the author of the
authorized book Mr. Shelby must have decided he was the most accurate.

I happen to be looking at a Rinsey Mills book on Cobra today and i don't have it in front of me but he says something about an aluminum block Indy V8 being on the Cobra option list which I have never read anywhere else. I know the first Indy V8s were not SOHC or DOHC so it's possible they would have bolted right in but I am sure they were very costly to Ford compared to iron block 4.7 liter 289s.

Anyhow when the over 400-page Rinsey Mills bio of shelby comes out in April 2012, we will see what it covers and what it doesn't.

As far as researching facts on the net, I thought that's what forums were for--to fact check rumors of long ago events, for instance just today i asked whether the Vince Gardner designed Mustang fastback two seater built by DST inspired the '65 1/2 Mustang 2 plus 2. It seems like Ford would have had the 2-plus-2 in the pipeline already by the time I saw the DST 2 seater fastback in '64. The answer to that is something probably only 5 or 6 people know and maybe some will read the question on the internet--otherwise I'd have to run classified ads like in the old days before the internet. Not that the internet is the solution to research, the newbies who came along after the net assume that if it's not on the net, it never happened where there can only be some news item posted on the internet if someone somewhere at some time posted it. If no one posted it, it's still in some print form somewhere...by the way before the internet there was something called microfilm (microfisch?) but I don't know if libraries still have that.