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Didn't Bob Negstad design the suspension/chassis for the 427 as a FORD employee, not SA?

Wasn't John T paid £3 or so for each car sold as an outside designer for the AC design they purchased?

Didn't the previous FORD Zypher 6 cylinder Ruddspeed Special AC race cars have the complete "cobra" shape, including the new nose shape without the moustache?

Didn't FORD require CS to use the NASCAR 427 lump for the Cobra, when they were initially interested in the car, rather than the all alloy 390 CS wanted if he couldn't get the free chevies?

Didn't AC's Hurlock and Iacocca's FORD give CS FREE credit, shipping and development for their chassis and engines?

Didn't Zora Duntov freeze CS out of 283/327 engines, despite CS's personal preferences to use them?

Didn't Chris Craft create a spectacular two+ seat COBRA speedboat in the late fifties?

Didn't CS take a $mill contract from FORD to bail on all the Cobras in 1967?

Didn't AC do the engineering drawings for the new 427 body shape to envelop the Negstad designed chassis?

Didn't CS see transplanted chevy powered Aston Martin specials (alloy bodies, superleggera steel tube chassis, Salisbury independent rear axles, chevy engines, T-10 transmissions, Girling disc brakes, etc) win races in CA during the late fifties and early sixties and copy the concept with a cheaper fabricator that trusted his credit and enthusiasm?

Didn't Pete Brock's personal design talent bring SA the world championship with the Daytona coupes?

Didn't Pete retain those designs?

No man is an island unto himself, particularly any champion. Many, many people have contributed to the COBRA successes in the past and today. We can look it up in a book somewhere.

Even today CS is quite properly ready to defend Ken Miles' driving/development talent for input on the 427, though not much is said about the Negstad designs and the developmental testing FORD did under him.

Inquiring newbies want to know!

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