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Originally Posted by AdamIsAdam
I was just watching Jay Leno interviewing John Morton who said Shelby only raced the 427 once. All the wins were in 289's. Mostly because by the time the 427 came out they were heavily into the GT40's.
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Actually, the reason is that shelby did not have the 100 required 427 Cobra’s built to satisfy the requirement to qualify the 427 for the production class, so the 427 had to compete in the prototype class along with the gt40. So the 427s were not raced, and the 427 super coupe was never completed, and shelby concentrated on the gt40s. Later on, the 427s were successfully raced by privateers.