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The Ken Miles Shelby Tiger Design??

To: "Tiger's Den" <tigers@autox.team.net>
Subject: The Ken Miles Shelby Tiger Design??
From: Steve Laifman <SLaifman@SoCal.RR.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 11:54:44 -0700
Paul Burr just referred us to an "interesting car site"

  http://www.shelbyamerican.com/tours/index.html

Which has a fantastic, guide able, moving panorama of the Shelby Museum
(and a Mk II Tiger).

While checking out the "links" I found a "timeline" on Carroll's life. I
was amazed to read:

"January 1963 - Dave MacDonald and Ken Miles sign to drive Cobras for
Shelby-American and place first and second at Riverside, beating the
Corvette Stingrays. Miles is so confident, he pits for a drink of water
and re-laps the Corvettes to finish behind MacDonald. Ian Garrad, an
Englishman living Southern California, feels he could imitate the Cobra
with a 260 Ford version of the little four cylinder
British Sunbeam Alpine roadster. Ken Miles is first hired to build a
prototype "Tiger," a job that is handed over to Shelby-American."

This is on http://www.carrollshelby.com/timeline.htm

Now isn't that a different twist? The original contract was with Ken
Miles? If he "handed over" the job, is that like a subcontract?  Can it
be, then, that the Ken Miles prototype is, after all, the very first
"Tiger" produced by the ORIGINAL contracted designer?

Have no idea who wrote this bit, but it certainly is a different slant
on the story.

BTW: This is the ONLY mention of the Tiger on the page of Shelby's life!

Puzzled!

Steve 
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