Shelby Legendary Cars will make only 10 examples of the Shelby Cobra CSX2000 Tribute Series Roadster, and we drove the ...

Carroll Shelby is undoubtedly the father of the Shelby Cobra, but Lynn Park might be the ... Instead, he built his own by fitting a Ford engine into an AC body and took it drag racing.

But the most remarkable thing is just how much of the AC Ace is still ... because that's what Shelby the man dictated before he died. "Carroll and Rob Myers discussed Cobra #1 many times, and ...

It’s tempting to say there’s nothing quite like the awesome AC Cobra from 1962 ... was first suggested by US racing driver Carroll Shelby. His initial idea was to use Chevy engines, but ...

Here, he found the AC Ace chassis ripe for transformation ... proving its capability to outperform even Carroll Shelby's own King Cobra. The car's racing debut, though fiery (quite literally ...

The Cobra's story is an Anglo-American one. In 1961, Carroll Shelby contacted British firm AC Cars with the intention of fitting a V8 engine into the chassis of the Ace sports car. After failing ...

Carroll Shelby will no doubt be rotating in his grave at 7000rpm at the very notion of a new all-electric AC Cobra. But that’s exactly what AC has done: a limited run of 58 ‘flat sided’ 289 ...

American car designer and racing driver Carroll Shelby was at the heart of the AC Cobra, despite the British badge on the bonnet. Shelby saw the opportunity for the beautiful AC Ace, which had ...

The Shelby Cobra CSX2000 Tribute Series Roadster from Shelby Legendary Cars. The Tribute Series Roadster features a cockpit ...

Today it builds continuation models of the AC Cobras, as well as the Shelby ... Cobra Daytona Coupe, as penned by the vehicle ...

The KR replaced the GT500, produced in 1,542 examples, before the Cobra Jet unit found its way into Carroll Shelby's hands.

and anything we might call a mechanical flaw actually provides a throughline from the almost primitive AC Ace to the gobsmacking Cobra that made Carroll Shelby a household name in the first place.