Thread: Stunning engines from USA after-market

I was born at Gosford,2 hours north of Sydney so no I'm not British.I do like to give credit were credit is due though and that goes to Britain not America. Pat

so AC came up with the concept of a 2 door convertable sports car???

when do you give him credit for coming up with the idea of putting a v8 into the Ac and what about the credit for the redesign for that change.....

Carroll Shelby did achieve alot and contribute alot. there is no denying that

You've missed the point by a mile.The original question was the GT40 and Cobra are American cars,they aren't,there British.The GT was desgined and built for the Yanks by the British and Shelby wanted a sleek bodied car to make into a V8 roadster similar to a corvette and AC Ace had what he wanted.Ford payed a European company to build a vehicle to beat the Europeans,Shelby built a vehicle to meet a market they he rightly saw was there. Pat

Perceptional history isn’t it fun.
You can brake the GT40 cars into 3 groups. The pommy built ones the yank built ones and the kiwi built ones.

It was the pommy ones that broke and never won anything. The kiwi tub aluminum chassis that owes more to the lotus europa/ espri ( 007) / Colin Chapman folded bit of paper concept one, was the first ( small block) to win anything before Lemans, this car as I already posted was crushed by the yanks possibly to remove any claim that Lotus could cream off of there success.

The Yank built cars, these are the 1-2-3 cars that made them famous. Yank built chassis, yank built motors and gearboxes, imported pommy body panels.

In short, the GT40 was a yank car,

Unlike the AC cobra which was a built car imported to America ( less motor and traz) to be fitted with the ford iron. As successful as the AC was. It was and is still a Dog of a car to drive. Epileptic spring’s front and rear didn’t help much. Hence the quick move to the super cobra which was much more successful on the track for it limited numbers.