The Shelby Cobra is a common sight at car shows thanks to a burgeoning replica business, but original cars are exceedingly rare—and the 1965 Shelby 427 Competition Cobra headed to auction next month ...
Yasser is a car enthusiast with an eye for detail and an ear to the ground. His enthusiasm and car expertise is matched only by his talent for writing - combining these two passions allows him to help ...
The famed Essex Wire 1965 427 Competition Cobra Roadster, numbered CSX3009, was the lead element in Ford’s max-effort racing efforts of the day, which included a Shelby GT350R and two GT40s. They ...
Introduced in the 1960s, the Cobra was the vision of a single man. Carroll Shelby asked British automaker AC Cars if they would be interested in a Ford-sourced V8 for the AC Ace, and the rest, as they ...
The formula was not necessarily a new one. Hot-rodders had been stuffing big engines in 1932 Deuce Coupes long before Carroll Shelby shoehorned a Ford small-block V-8 into a lightweight British sports ...