Originally Posted by
darkjedi
nice cars , americans can built good cars
But it strikes me , when someone calls the GT40 british , everybody seems to forget that the car didnt won anything before Carroll Shelby took over the project, before him the car didnt look very good in the track actually , and they also forget the famous all american victory with all american drivers.
Carrol Shelby did take over the project and create the MkII but the car was penned by a brit from Lola, besides, the shelby super cars like the 289 Cobra and the GT40 can't be called any single nationality simply because his team was involved. Shelby had engineers with Ph.D's from Germany, Australia, Great Britain, some american "backyard mechanics" and many more countries. They are more an example of what can be accomplished by crossing boundaries than by creating them by giving the cars a nationality.
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