Based on the Registry, very early Cobras were usually sold as “SHELBY AC COBRA” cars, at least into the CSX208x range. After that most cars were sold as either Cobra-Ford (75% of those documented) or just “Cobra” (10%). Less than 10% of cars documented in the Registry have “Shelby” mentions and most were the very early cars. More @Wikipedia
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