Hi Steve,
Have you seen "American Hotrod" on the Discovery Channel? After watching the
show one is left with the impression Boyd Coddington's contribution to
building his cars is generally limited to riling up his employees and
signing the paychecks.
In architecture school the running joke was that the goal is to become the
'concept man'. This is the person that has the big ideas first and therefore
gets to watch other people work hard to make them happen.
Bob
> Before we diminish the roll Shelby had in creating (as opposed to
> engineering) the Tiger by comparison with the Cobra, I'll toss out a
> question about what we think George Boskoff and his fellow Shelby
> employees did prior to the Tiger project. I'd guess it was Cobra
> development. I may be wrong, but I don't recall ever reading that
> Shelby was actually an acredited engineer himself, as much as a racer
> and hot rodder. I'd even go out on a limb to suggest that real
> engineernig (from my perspective as an automotive BSME from Purdue
> University) didn't really take hold at Shelby automotive until the 427
> program was underway.
>
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