With the recent passing of automotive icon Carroll Shelby, it is easy to look at his amazing life through the...
No other American icon of performance rises to the level of the 427 Shelby Cobra. And while the 289 Cobra...
By: Jessica Wendland No shopping allowed While everyone was shopping black Friday deals the Day after Thanksgiving, some of us were on the way to a Norcal Shelby Club (Northern California Region Shelby American Automobile Club- SAAC) Turkey Bowl Track Day at Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey County, CA....
In a chance partnership, Shelby American and the Hertz Corporation devised a plan to provide motorists with the ability to...
Carroll Shelby, renowned for creating the iconic Cobra, conceived the idea of infusing his Shelby touch into Ford’s newly hot...
In 2003, Carroll Shelby and Chris Theodore announced Ford and Shelby’s collaboration to develop high-performance vehicles. Little did people know about the secret project, code-named Daisy, already in motion to create a new Cobra. Unlike a typical concept car, Daisy was a fully functional prototype to test production feasibility, built...
The 1968 GT500 KR featured a 428 cubic inch Cobra Jet V8 engine, which is widely recognized as one of the best...
The Shelby American Automobile Club’s 48th Annual convention (SAAC-48) and Team Shelby East Coast Grand Nationals return to the Pittsburgh...
Combining the power of Ford’s short-stroke V8 with the nimbleness of AC’s sporting chassis, the Cobra was the first largely successful English-American hybrid. The whole project was motivated by legendary driver Carol Shelby, who refined and raced the car with funds from Ford. In what some have called a desperate...
The Ford Mustang® recently celebrated its 58th birthday and in perfect timing, it was recently revealed that for the seventh...
The 1965 Shelby GT350R Prototype driven by Ken Miles sold for $3.75 million at Mecum Auctions’ recent Kissimmee sale. Recognized...
The only Dragonsnake Cobra equipped at the factory with the Stage III quadruple-Weber carburetion system, this 1965 Shelby 289 Cobra, CSX2427, was ordered new by Don Reimer of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, who—with his younger brother Mike—took delivery of the car from Adams County Motors Corporation. Invoiced to that Gettysburg Ford dealer...
In 1965 and 1966, Carroll Shelby produced only one model based on the Ford Mustang – the G.T. 350, albeit...
Fully documented and well known in the Shelby collector community, this 1967 Shelby 427 “Semi Competition” Cobra, CSX3045, has been chronicled...
Just three and a half years after the first Shelby Cobra emerged from a rented shop in Venice, California, Carroll Shelby and his brilliant team of grassroots, high-performance technocrats won the FIA World Manufacturers Championship of Makes for GT cars, the first ever for an American manufacturer. This unprecedented feat,...
One of the crown jewels of Carroll Shelby’s personal collection, this 1965 Shelby 427 Cobra, CSX3178, was owned by Carroll...
Jacques Laffite Graham Hill Hannu Mikkola John Barnard 1 Allan Moffat and Jackie Ickx drive a Ford Falcon Cobra to...
The Shelby American Team car driven by Dan Gurney and Bob Johnson, at the 1964 12 Hours of Sebring. With about an hour left in the race, Bob Johnson smashed the number 11 Cobra into a limping Alfa Romeo TZ near the entry to the pits. The Cobra flipped end-over-end,...
This July 10-18 Dana Mecum’s Original Spring Classic auction will makes its return to the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis....
The awe-inspiring collection of John Atzbach—highlighted most notably by the first 1965 Shelby GT350R Competition Model built, known as the...
“This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny,” said President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the young Americans who grew up during the deprivation of the Great Depression and later served during World War II. The 23 courageous men and women described in this book went on from military service...
Eight featured classes will highlight the 25th Anniversary edition of the renowned Greenwich Concours d’Elegance, including Shelby vs. GM and 100...
Accomplished Trans-Am, SCCA and historic racer Tom Yeager passed away on December 28th, at the age of 83. Yeager had...
A very rare Shelby was profiled in the December 2013 issue of Vintage Roadcar (The Only One – 1967 Shelby GT 500 Convertible). It was the only 1967 G.T. 500 convertible ever built. At the time, it was believed to have been built as a prototype for the upcoming 1968...
On May 20, legendary West Coast Morgan and Cobra racer J. Lewis “Lew” Spencer II passed away from complications associated...
Mecum’s 32nd Original Spring Classic auction was another pronounced success with overall sales totals reaching an all-time Indy-auction high at...
Four extremely rare and unique Shelby Cobras from the Steven Juliano Collection will be sold at Mecum’s May 14–19 Indy Spring Classic sale, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Each of the four Cobras on offer, represent not only a rare or highly desirable variation, but also one restored to the most exacting...
The second Team Shelby Movie Night and 7th Annual Carroll Shelby Tribute Car Show on May 3 – 4, 2019,...
Julian Thomas and Calum Lockie grabbed most of the headlines of a thrilling start to the 2019 Masters Historic Racing...
The one-of-a-kind 1967 Shelby Mustang GT 500 “Super Snake” smashed the existing record for a Mustang, at Mecum’s 2019 Kissimmee auction, when it sold for a staggering $2.2 million. The previous record for the most expensive Mustang was set by the same car, when it was sold by Mecum in...