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Originally Posted by Thor maine
So I am looking at ""Cobras & Replicas 1962-1993" a Brooklands Books publication. In it is a two page picture of a car called the "Mongoose". A car built by Jerry Scheberies which is a 1958 AC ACE with a F85 Olds V8 transplanted in it. It looks like it was done before Carroll Shelby and the Cobra. So my question is this the true father of the Cobra , with a GM engine and not Shelby and Ford???
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Pretty interesting stuff. I found this post on the ACE forums. Looks like Shelby got his idea from the Mongoose:
AC Owners Club - Walt Petersen "Mongoose"
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