[Rickd]

The Shelby team had a lot to do with the recommended / requested chassis modifications to accept the American V-8 motors as well. Shelby put the program together .. got the initial car to test .. got the 260 V8 from Ford. That initial series of "road tests" by the automotive press was pure Shelby marketing. He had ONE car .. but repainted it for each magazine that tested the car so when the July car mags hit the stands there were pictures of a yellow cobra, a red one, white one and a black one .. i believe. Gave the impression that the Shelby Cobra was in production .. and they got orders. No Carroll Shelby and the "cobra" never would have existed. AC would have never had the international brand awareness that Shelby gave the company .. by using their "donor" body on a beefed up chassis, with an American V8.