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What Carroll Shelby accomplished is really understated.
He had the 289 (AC) Cobra, the GT350 (mustang fastback) the 427 (AC) Cobra and the Cobra Daytona SC. All within 3 yrs!!!! And totally dominated every race or level he was at.
I have a coffee table book on sports cars that I bought in the mid 80s. Page after page, beautiful fast sportcars. The last car listed is the 427 w/ 6 webbers. THe author said it was listed last because you had to forget everything you had just read! the 427completely redefined the parameters. when the book was published The 427 was the only car in the world to go from 0 to 100 to 0 in 13 seconds.
I often wondered how much 'manufaturer' money Ford funnelled to ol' Carroll under the table.
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