1963 Shelby 260 Cobra
Few sports cars are as celebrated and well-known as the Shelby Cobra. Carroll Shelby may not have been the first entrepreneur to install a large-bore American engine into a European body, but his creation was certainly the most famous and effective. The onetime Texan chicken farmer who had won Le Mans as a driver in 1959 was catapulted to a new phase of his career when he contracted with Ford to install Detroit’s V-8 engine into the AC Ace roadster. The resulting Cobra was a smash success, winning SCCA titles with incredible ease.
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Few sports cars are as celebrated and well-known as the Shelby Cobra. Carroll Shelby may not have been the first entrepreneur to install a large-bore American engine into a European body, but his creation was certainly the most famous and effective. The onetime Texan chicken farmer who had won Le Mans as a driver in 1959 was catapulted to a new phase of his career when he contracted with Ford to install Detroit’s V-8 engine into the AC Ace roadster. The resulting Cobra was a smash success, winning SCCA titles with incredible ease.
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