The timing of my first few yards in AC’s ‘new’ Cobra MkII 347 is ... this factory continuation car that even hints at the Cobra 427’s transamerica thrash in the 1976 film The Gumball ...
Few race cars look at utterly menacing as a mid-1960s Shelby Cobra 289, and this example available with Grand Prix Classics has spent much of its glory days battling it out across America’s finest ...
The Cobra is a car built on myth and legend. Rightly so, given so much about its creation and development was a bit... underhand. But the basics were as follows. It started life as a British ...
The Cobra proved successful enough that AC Cars — the British company building ... So while it's not a crazy, tire-spinning beast like the Shelby 427 Cobra or a Nürburgring monster like the ...
Carroll Shelby had the bright idea of taking a sleek British AC Ace sports car and adding ... 480 lb-ft of torque to deal with. Called the Cobra 427, it is one of the scariest cars to ever result ...
Iconic European performance cars from the 20th century, like the De Tomaso Pantera and AC Cobra, were powered by legendary ...
Based on the AC Ace, a lightweight British ... it was available with Ford's legendary 427-ci (7.0-liter) rated at 425 hp. Nevertheless, any Shelby Cobra is a prized collector's item and the ...
Its supplier eventually stopped production of the Bristol engine and Shelby learned that ... 289', as well as the 7.0-liter '427'. Cars were sold as the AC Cobra in Europe too.
The 1964 Shelby Cobra 427 Flip-Top Prototype was a groundbreaking car developed in response to the growing competition posed by the Corvette Grand Sport. Ken Miles played a key role in the preparation ...
AC Cars's new Cobra made its U.S. debut in early March in Miami. Just don't call it a Shelby.
Remember the AC Cobra? Yup, the iconic car that pays homage to the Shelby Cobra of the 1960s. It’s set to make its North ...
ultimately creating the Shelby Cobra we know and cherish today. AC sold the V-8-swapped machines overseas in-period as the AC Cobra, which is the car you see re-imagined here today. The Cobra GT ...