Began everything with the Texaner Carroll Shelby. 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 this vehicle it concerns itself around a qualitative high-quality reproduction of Everett Morrison, ex-factory price approx.. DM 168,000, - net, as drive a compressor serves
more loaded 5.8 l V8 with approx. 420 HP, which together with briefly gradated 5 the course sport transmission provides for breath-robbing road performances. The vehicle possesses an extensive special equipment such as power steering, overroll bar, Sidepipes, oil cooler, radio cassette 200W u.v.m.

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 auto, which was ever built. One obtained at that time in the 60's already acceleration values, which are hardly to be created today from a F40, a XJ220 or a Bugatti EB110.

Of 1986 Cobra sports car again built in Weybridge, Surrey (England) at the company, which was allowed to carry AC " 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 super of sports car.