Behold, 3 high-performance sports cars which bear the name of racing legend Carroll Shelby!
On the left: the car that made him famous, a Cobra roadster. The car started out as an English-made car, the AC Cobra. Carroll ripped out the old "four-banger" and put in a 289 cubic inch engine. It was a pretty valiant effort to win, but not successful enough, so he replaced it with a 427...and that was the edge it needed to win races and become a popular street machine.
In the middle: a 1969 Mustang-based Shelby 500KR. (The "KR" meant "King of the Road".) Shelby had been working with Ford ever since they started producing the GT40 for the Le Mans races, and he also applied his race car designing skills to the Mustang line to give it that "special" touch...which included protruding noses and full-width taillights. The '69 was the last year for that particular Shelby Mustang package.
On the right: the 2007 Mustang Shelby Cobra GT500, a tribute to Shelby's racing genius. The package is a little more subtle in this case, with the racing stripes, blackout grille with Cobra emblem, and a turbocharged 5.0 liter enging with 6-speed manual transmission.
All three cars are part of my model car collection. Hope you lie them.
On the left: the car that made him famous, a Cobra roadster. The car started out as an English-made car, the AC Cobra. Carroll ripped out the old "four-banger" and put in a 289 cubic inch engine. It was a pretty valiant effort to win, but not successful enough, so he replaced it with a 427...and that was the edge it needed to win races and become a popular street machine.
In the middle: a 1969 Mustang-based Shelby 500KR. (The "KR" meant "King of the Road".) Shelby had been working with Ford ever since they started producing the GT40 for the Le Mans races, and he also applied his race car designing skills to the Mustang line to give it that "special" touch...which included protruding noses and full-width taillights. The '69 was the last year for that particular Shelby Mustang package.
On the right: the 2007 Mustang Shelby Cobra GT500, a tribute to Shelby's racing genius. The package is a little more subtle in this case, with the racing stripes, blackout grille with Cobra emblem, and a turbocharged 5.0 liter enging with 6-speed manual transmission.
All three cars are part of my model car collection. Hope you lie them.
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