[Historybuff]

When I was researching original Cobra racing back in the Sixties, I ran across an entry of a Cobra prepared by Holman & Moody back around 1962 and driven by Augie Pabst. I called up Augie and he told me that he had been thinking of buying a Cobra.

On their website Holman & Moody say the Pabst car was one of three Cobras entered in the Nassau Speed Weeks." I think the other two were prepared by Shelby.
At any rate the Pabst car did not win but I think if his would have beat the Shelby cars by a wide margin that Ford, knowing H & M a lot more than they knew Shelby would have given the nod to H & M to build the Cobras.

But in the end maybe they knew that Shelby would make a better spokesman in the ads (and fdon't forget he was even in ads for the Fairlane and in ads selling "Cobra parts") than either Holman or Moody and that's part of what selling cars is all about--the showmanship. And they were right, as proven by the fact that CS is on their payroll marketing cars again some 46 years down the road....