Time has a way of distorting history so that, if not corrected by those who lived it, it becomes inaccurate fact. Englishman Rinsey Mills, perhaps more than any automotive historian of the chaotic Shelby era, had a firm grasp on the earliest events of the day by being on site at the AC factory in Thames Ditton almost from the …
I remember as a teenager asking my friend Bob Leitzinger who had Lotus of Pittsburgh if he would ask his friend Ed Hugus to let me look at the "A.C. Cobras" that were being semi or totally assembled at Continental Cars on West Liberty Ave. I was allowed to look at these iconic cars at their first stop in Pittsburgh. As a young gearhead, it was very exciting to see them in the flesh when the auto magazines were first writing about them. For years no one believed my recollection, telling me I was, "full of Baloney," as my mother would say and that eveyone knows they were all made in Venice, CA, period. It's nice to read the verification of this connection to Pittsburgh and Mr. Hugus.
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