One of the crown jewels of Carroll Shelby’s personal collection, this 1965 Shelby 427 Cobra, CSX3178, was owned by Carroll...
Following victories for AC Cobra drivers at Donington and on the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit earlier in the season, lithe...
On July 4, 1965, Bob Bondurant drove the Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe CSX2601 to victory at Reims, France, to clinch the first and only World Manufacturer’s Championship for the United States. “Winning that World Championship was the crowning achievement of my career,” offered Bondurant. “I think it’s wonderful that the...
Charlie Kemp was born in Mississippi, and his inimitable southern drawl once led Carroll Shelby to say that had Charlie...
• The 12th annual Winter Park Concours d’Elegance, will be held Sunday, November 10, 2013, on Winter Park, Florida’s scenic...
Six cars from the Ford Performance Collection of megadealer Jim Click will be offered for sale by RM Sotheby’s at the Portola Hotel & Spa and Monterey Conference Center this August 19-20 during Monterey Classic Car week. Click began vintage racing with these cars a quarter-century ago and has decided...
VR: How did you start writing? CC: My wife had a job with the local police department working nights doing...
This is the official site of the Shelby American Collection in Boulder, Colorado, which houses many examples of significant Shelby Cobras and various other cars built and campaigned by Shelby American. Clicking on any one of a list of destinations arranged across the top of the home page will take...
Daytona Cobra coupe of Jo Schlesser/Allen Grant at speed. Photo: Ford Motor Company The prototype Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe (CSX2287) designed...
As part of its annual time-warp journey through the past, this weekend’s Goodwood Revival will feature a 50th Anniversary Reunion...
By 1963, Cobras were doing very well in Sports Car Club of America races. Cars driven by Shelby American drivers won the SCCA A Production National Championship. In addition, they won the SCCA Production-Class U.S. Road Racing Championship. Carroll Shelby, however, wanted to enter and win the unlimited USAC Sports...
The best investment you will ever make just could be the $10 you spend on a ticket for the New...
The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) at Watkins Glen International has announced it will once again offer a Cobra replica as its annual raffle car. “The selection of a Cobra for 2010 was an easy one based on the popularity of similar vehicles that were offered in 2005 and...
You may recall that last year we brought you the bizarre saga of the lost Daytona Coupe, CSX2287. One of...
Russo and Steele Collector Automobile Auctions will offer another historically important Shelby factory Cobra racecar at its August 20 auction...
Ken Miles in the Shelby Cobra, with Shelby’s personal racing number, leads Jim Hall in the Corvette Grand Sport. Ken Miles won the GT class and finished 2nd overall, as the Grand Sport driven by Hall, Roger Penske and Hap Sharp finished 3rd overall behind the winning Ferrari 250LM with...
Photo: Casey Annis History is a curious thing, we tend to think of it as fixed and absolute, when in...
As the 39th annual vintage racecar festival on California’s Monterey Peninsula, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, unfolded this past August,...
During the FIA World Championship of 1965, the Ford Cobra Coupes competed in the Monza 1000 Km. The two-car team, run by Alan Mann, finished 1st and 2nd in class. Although not an overall win, the team was focused on the World GT Championship, which the team succeeded in winning...
As the 38th annual vintage racecar weekend at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca rolled to a close, the circuit’s general manager,...
In 1963, three Willment-run cars were taken to South Africa for the South African season—a Lotus Cortina, a Ford Galaxie...
A general homage to artist Wagger’s favorite Cobras, the USRRC 289s, in no particular race or at any particular track, just loud and messy, as they tended to be. And with Ken Miles at the wheel, naturally. Wagger’s message is straight and simple, hopefully leaving the same impact on those...
Dan Gerber started racing in midwest SCCA events in an Austin-Healey in 1961, while in 1962 he also started racing...
David Purley was a hero you have probably never even heard of, but a hero he most certainly was. If...
Quintessential designs of the 20th century are all around us. These items are so familiar we often take their shape, color and ease of use for granted. Some of the best examples of design quintessence include the Coke bottle, the Monte Blanc fat black pen, the VW Beetle and the GE...
A pair of 1966 Ferrari 275 GTBs topped last week’s collector car auctions in conjunction with Florida’s Amelia Island Concours...
Edmund Rahal, who though mainly unknown was the first of the racing Rahals, passed away last December 16 at the...
On May 20, legendary West Coast Morgan and Cobra racer J. Lewis “Lew” Spencer II passed away from complications associated with Alzheimer’s Disease. Spencer began his racing career in 1954 racing a Morgan +4 at an SCCA race in Bakersfield, California. Spencer would go on to race a series of...