Hey, Little Cobra
Shelby Cobra at the 2010 Keels & Wheels expo in Seabrook, Texas
The Cobra was produced by Carroll Shelby, a race car driver and entrepreneur, who took a smallish English two-seat sports car, the AC Ace, and put a Ford V-8 engine in it. The car evolved to have larger engines until Shelby eventually put the big-block Ford 427 c.i. (7 liter) V-8 in it. According to one story, Shelby tried to give one to comedian Bill Cosby, but when Cosby started it and drove it around the block, he said it terrified him. So, he decided to stick with his tamer Ferrari.
Whatever the truth of the story, the later iterations of the Cobra were all-out, screaming, brutal machines, capable of speeds of 185 mph (300 kph).
silodrome.com/history-shelby-cobra/
Reprocessed photo from the archives
Hey, Little Cobra
Shelby Cobra at the 2010 Keels & Wheels expo in Seabrook, Texas
The Cobra was produced by Carroll Shelby, a race car driver and entrepreneur, who took a smallish English two-seat sports car, the AC Ace, and put a Ford V-8 engine in it. The car evolved to have larger engines until Shelby eventually put the big-block Ford 427 c.i. (7 liter) V-8 in it. According to one story, Shelby tried to give one to comedian Bill Cosby, but when Cosby started it and drove it around the block, he said it terrified him. So, he decided to stick with his tamer Ferrari.
Whatever the truth of the story, the later iterations of the Cobra were all-out, screaming, brutal machines, capable of speeds of 185 mph (300 kph).
silodrome.com/history-shelby-cobra/
Reprocessed photo from the archives