It is to be owed to it that from the small English Sports car and the large volume V8 Ford engine the legendary COBRA developed. Shelby was its time running driver and led in the year 1961 with the English automobile company Aston Martin negotiations over the supply with prototypes.

With V8 engine with 228 HP, 5 course handschaltung, chrome Sidepipes with TUEV, heli coil fire of aluminum wheels, overroll bars and genuinly leather Interieur this COBRA is EXCALIBUR above average well equipped a 5,0 litre. Of 1986 COBRA sports car again built in Weybridge, Surrey, England at the company, which was allowed to carry AC COBRA legally world-wide as the only names. Unfortunately also this company had to stop 1995 production. From German and foreign manufacturers there are however some reproductions of this unforgettable COBRA super of sports car.

COBRA a name, which let the hearts of sports car fans strike more highly, because one says that COBRA sports cars are the most malicious, most brutal, strongest over cars, which were ever built. One obtained at that time in the 60's already acceleration values, those today hardly from a F40 to create XJ220 or Bugatti EB110 began everything with the Texaner Carroll Shelby.

Aston Martin had however no capacity free and Shelby experienced that the company Ford had developed a new easy-weighty V8 engine, the Canadian X21. in addition searched one with AC Autocraft a successor machine, in order to replace the old 2.6 l Ford engine.