Thanks. I didn’t know that Tojeiro did the coachwork design. So all Shelby did was take a British chassis with British coachwork design and drop in a big block V8?
Technically, the British chassis (with its traverse leaf springs) was found in the early small-block Cobras, but not the big-block cars. Those wore the AC coachwork (modified) but had Ford/Shelby designed frames and suspensions. There were still a lot of European-sourced parts on the 427 cars, though: Girling brakes, Koni shocks, etc.