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Originally Posted by Cobra #3170

Just a bit of history, my 1965 purchase order specifically says 1966 427 Cobra it does not say Shelby Cobra. We never called them Shelby Cobras ever, there were however, Shelby Mustangs. None of the Cobra owners I knew wanted to call his car a Shelby anything because we did not want people to think we had Mustangs. This situation has been repeated with the Ford GT, if you tell someone you have a Ford GT they automatically think Mustang.
I have made this point before but could not resist bringing it up again, we also called them AC Cobras but again, never Shelby Cobras. I lived in California from the time I purchased the car till 1968 when I moved to Michigan and none of the owners I met there called their cars Shelby Cobras either.

This is how it has been told to me a number of times by owners from back in the day. AC wasn't a dirty word and Shelby built Mustangs.
Larry