Heh. And?
Shelby built it at a time when Americans were just Americans- and proud to be Americans.
He built it just to see how fast it was- saying it was a Monster that threw belts off on a regular basis!
And?
And no American coach builder made a chassis the size he needed at the time, so he had to source a British one. Shelby was a genius with the AC Cobra, but the British chassis is as iconic as the American ingenuity under it.