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I will try to buy the ad next time it comes up for sale to see if, in real small print, it gives the actual supplier's name. I have a feeling real Cobra owners wouldn't have wanted them as the Goodyear brand was known worldwide in tires,whereas the Shelby brand tire, well, who wants to take the chance in a car as fast as the Cobra with an unknown brand? On the other hand, Mickey Thompson was a racer who sold tires under his own brand name and I guess they were pretty good in drag racing. Even car companies like Ferrari prefer to buy tires from outside rather than develop their own because tire technology takes world class experts and they don't want to tie up their own engineers learning what tiremakers already know. (Actually what a car company does now is "imbed" the tire company engineers in on a project like Ford did with Goodyear engineers on the Ford GT so that they are developing tires specifically for the car with the tire company's engineers)