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It's amazing what you can do if you just think outside the box a little bit. That's what Carroll Shelby did when used a hefty dose of American ingenuity to transform a little British roadster ...
Shelby Cobra's Through History Go ... how much improvement could be made with racing tires that would nullify some of the tre­mendous wheel spin? The 427 Cobra does accelerate and decelerate ...
The Shelby Cobra is one of the quintessential ... a hood scoop, a racing windshield, side pipes, and a race-tuned 427 V-8 engine. The bodywork would also be repaired by hand in 2003, when the ...
"Everyone at Shelby is more than candid about admitting that the handling of the original Cobra was ... Ford's official race-car contractor, Holman Moody, was tapped for a built 427-cubic-inch ...
No tapestry of Shelby, Cobra or Ford racing history is complete without the thread of CSX 2196, the prototype 427 Cobra.
The First Shelby Cobra Sold for $13.75 Million Last Shelby ... He has a taste for high-mileage, rusted-out projects and amateur endurance racing.
with race car driver Steve Park, Lynn's son. Then veteran racer Lynn, as a first-time passenger in his 1965 Shelby Cobra 427, experiences a new perspective as Nicole pilots his original 500 ...
modified a Shelby Cobra into a Dragonsnake and found success racing it. Harr Ford bought a factory Dragonsnake two years later, this one with a side-oiler, 12.5:1-compression Ford 427 engine ...
Carroll Shelby was not only an iconic automotive ... It started as a full-blown 427 Cobra Competition racing car. In 1967, it underwent a mild transformation to being a road-legal semi-competition ...
The conflicts between Carroll Shelby and various kit car makers are well known and sometimes seem never-ending. Massachusetts-based Factory Five Racing ... using the terms “Cobra, 427 S/C ...
Shelby planned to create a racing version of the Cobra 427. It was dubbed the Competition model. To get it ready for the track, Shelby and his team needed to produce 100 cars for homologation ...