[bitzman]

I met a guy witha 427 powered Shelby, either '67 or '68 who told me he bought it from a doctor in SF who had Shelby build it special for him when it was new.
This made sense to me because in '67 Shelby was still building Shelby Mutangs in Los Angeles in 1967 and could make one "special" for a special friend. If the special friend was a heart doctor I could see why Shelby would go a little further in keeping him happy as back then he knew he had a bad heart (I guess the transplants were still far in the future).

But once production moved to Michigan, it was harder to make a special car, so I am thinking it was probably a '67.

Years later, I also met a doctor at a concours with a Cobra replica and he said he was Carroll Shelby's heart doctor and had obtained the car through Shelby. I believe he was with Cedars of Sinai hospital which is either in BH or nearby