Shelby History and this Dual Quad 427 Street Cobra! 

@thehawk05 - I could not agree with you more on your statement! I met Peter at Watkins Glen and he is a class guy with much knowledge!

100% This sort of knowledge only comes by a LOT of research, and a LOT of experience. Impressive.

Hey there, this is a different Cobra.

@@legendarymotorcar Oh my, yes you're right. I just noticed the chrome side mirror that the auction car didn't have. My bad. The video car must be the one previously owned by George D. from upstate N.Y.

@@SundudeCAN No worries whatsoever!

So much for the “bad” economy 🇺🇸.

​@@davidcat1455 it's most certainly a bad economy right now, by every matrix. However, the wealthy and the rich are often NOT affected by a bad economy, and often times they get even wealthier in a bad economy.

Klutt, rather

One of the companies that makes the kit cobras had one of their cars with a 225 hp mustang 5.0 engine and they ran it against a new viper at the time. This was 2001-2002 and the kit cobra destroyed the viper

He needed to launch it in second gear rather than first!

I purchased csx3225 in 1968 for $4,995. Over the years I added side pipes, hood scoop Holley carb and rain race tires to the 428. It ran 12.4 in the quarter . It now has a 427 side oiler which doesn't seem any quicker than the 428.

​@rayshepherd2479 I also placed a 427 side oiler in my Cobra, replacing the original 428. The difference is in the Rpm . Also depends how it is tuned .the 427 is MUCH Beefer and can Reach higher RpM safely that the 428 cannot . Low-end performance is about the same . But the 427 will survive high rpm racing that the 428 will not 😊 Cheers

Educational about the Cobras that were sold by Shelby in the US, they existed over a decade before Shelby had ever heard of the car company, were made in Surrey UK and we're not sold as Shelby's in other countries. AC had lost their engine supplier, their own engine was too old, they wanted to buy the small block ford engines, but ford wouldn't sell them any, they re engineered the car for the 440 Chrysler which was what other big GT cars in europe were using, that is the point Shelby stepped in and persuaded Ford to supply engines, he got the right to sell in the US under his name, AC kept the right to sell elsewhere but now had Ford engines to put in them. Shelby was a brilliant marketeer.

Id love to have a 289 just due to the subdued look and build a solid lifter high compression sbf from hell.

Yea, having money to afford one of these doesn't make the owner a better (smarter) driver. But, it does make classic Corvette owners pecker feel alot smaller in theor finger tips. Them classic shitty chevy guys like to brag about pointless crap to make themselves feel "special". Then one of these come.around and suddenly they don't wanna talk no more.

America driver? How about ANY driver. I mean, who else in the world had such power to weight ratios as did American musclecars. Not Ferrari, nor Lamborghini. A 2000 pound rocket on wheels is just asking to be crashed. People can’t comprehend wheel speed versus ground speed. When you’re doing 10mph ground speed and 80mph wheels speed, you are roasting tires, and you are relatively safe. RELATIVELY. But when you shift into second prematurely because your wheels are doing 60-100mph and your ground speed is 30-40mph, something is going to step out of line. Remember that on every American V8 powered vehicle, the drivetrain is literally trying to lift the right rear tire, and squash the left rear tire in equal and opposite amounts of torque, and if it weren’t for the chassis itself, the wheels would just flop around back there under acceleration. So the reality is that regardless of suspension set up, even with IRS, the right rear is going to spin more easily and will be trying to lift the right rear of your car. The left rear resists spinning as it is being driven into the ground as hard as the right rear is being lifted. That creates one helluva torque bias that most people don’t even consider in their heads while driving. Both wheels are turning the axles in opposite directions, which is why the leading end of the leaf springs or the control arms are trying to lift the rear of the car at the pickup points, while the right rear is helping that, and the left rear is doing the opposite, so there are lots of conflicting forces at work. So the rear is going to try to step out, then the driver tries to correct, but when the tires are going 60-80mph faster than the car is, and they either let it all slide out of control, for a spin out, or, the driver feathers the throttle and the tires suddenly gain traction, each rear gaining that traction at different times, and different pressures, the results are nearly impossible to predict. All those Mustang and Corvette, and. 911 videos of them doing a second gear spin, the wheel speeds go WAAAY UP, because it feels great and more is more, right? If they would simply watch the Speedo, and keep wheel speed waiting maybe 20-30mph if the perceived ground speed, there woudont be such unpredictable slides after sudden traction gains where the power being delivered is just too much to control with any predictability. So they do that at just a little too high of speed , because once again, fun is fun and more is more fun, but greedy will get you wrecked. And so it goes.