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Originally Posted by Joe's Garage
Factoid, the Shelby 427 was suppose to be the Enzo beater in '65 but not to be and Enzo handed Shelby his ass again at the 24 hours of Le Mans. That's about when Ford tooled up for the GT40 which did succeed where Shelby's bigger, badder Cobra had failed miserably.
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Shelby wasn't focused on winning Le Mans in '65 as much as he was the overall manufacturer's championship, which he won. And the "Shelby 427" you reference - do you mean the 427 Cobra roadster or the Daytona Super Coupe? Because the latter was shelved before it ever got off the ground - not because of being any sort of failure but because in '65 Ford had put a large portion of the GT-40 program under Shelby. Some might even say that Shelby might have focused more on the GT-40 program, as Henry Ford II had basically told him his job was on the line.