[Trevor Legate]

It was definately Phil Remington who got the tin snips and club hammer out and made the GT40 work, as Mr.Shelby will confirm. The GT40 was also given to Holman Moody to make sure each team concentrated on the task in hand but no HM car even won a championship round as they insisted on using drivers who had little knowledge of European road circuits.

To hark back to an earlier post - I really think AC did just a little bit more than just wheel out an Ace chassis and then bu..er off to build invalid carriages. The cars arrived at SA requiring only engine, box, battery and wheels to be fitted, so they built quite a lot of the car. Lets call it 50/50......the first Cobra to be entered in a race outside the USA was the AC entry for the 63 Le Mans. Carroll Shelby "observed" but kept away from the project. It finished 7th, won its class and was only headed by Ferraris. They also sold AC Cobra road cars to all markets outside the USA, with full approval from their 2 other partners. The first Shelby advertising literature pay full credit to the "union" of British craftsmanship and American power. The second lot of advertising did not. Strange.......

I dare not mention the fact that the "World Championship" was won by the Alan Mann team (apart from Daytona & Sebring) and that CS never attended a race, not even when they won the title in Rheims. (There was a reason for that). Nor shall we discuss how it was a class win against only privateers, with Ferrari being equally dominant in the Protoype category.
Anyhow, I am always delighted to confirm that the Cobra was a successful joint effort.