I vaguely remember reading several magazine articles back in the 90's highlighting a heated dispute between Shelby and Brian Angliss who was running Autokraft at the time. Angliss was very critical of Shelby's claims about "left over" chassis from AC cars. He said AC never produced or shipped bare chassis's to the US.
Angliss was apparently in possession of the original handwritten chronologic AC records outlining all mfg and shipment dates for cobras destined for the US.
Seemed to be some very bad blood between the two. Never was clear to me if something else precipitated the hard feelings, or just the alledged "fraudulent" claims by Shelby.
I'm sure I still have the old magazines with the articles, maybe I'll dig through them...