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In 1967, Bill Cosby bought a Shelby Cobra Super Snake CSX 3303 from his friend, company founder Carroll Shelby. The car was a 1965 Cobra Competition roadster, retained by Shelby American as a PR car and then modified with the addition of two superchargers and a Ford C-6 automatic gearbox. [2] Only two such cars were built; one was retained by ...
In an effort to improve top speed along the legendary Mulsanne Straight at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race, a number of enclosed, coupé variations were constructed using the leafspring chassis and running gear of the AC/Shelby Cobra Mark II. The most famous and numerous of these were the official works Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupés.
Shelby Cobra blueprint, drawing by Igor Križanovskij, March 2005 This file is from the Open Clip Art Library , which released it explicitly into the public domain ( see here ) . To the uploader: Please provide as parameter the link to the page where this image appears.
The New 2013 Shelby GT500 Super Snake Breaks the Mid-Tens in the Quarter Mile LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Shelby American, a wholly owned subsidiary of Carroll Shelby International Inc., (Pink ...
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Richard Symons's documentary recounts the origins and rise to racing history of the AC Cobra, the car requested by Carroll Shelby.The film details the history of the Cobra and Carroll Shelby's racing career from its humble beginnings to the 1959 victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Roy Salvadori at the wheel of an Aston Martin DBR1.
Shelby American revealed the 2024 Super Snake based on the new S650 Mustang, with production limited to 250 units. The 5.0-liter V-8 powering the Super Snake offers 480 and 830-hp versions, the ...
Having developed the AC Cobra/Shelby Cobra into a successful GT race car, he realised that the weakness of the open-cockpit sports cars at Le Mans was the aerodynamic drag which limited top speed on the 3.7 miles (6.0 km) long Mulsanne Straight to around 157 miles per hour (253 km/h), nearly 30 miles per hour (48 km/h) less than the Ferrari 250 ...