Old School muscle

[PlukaDuck]

Here are some pics of Carrol Shelby's Cobra.....Super Snake. 1964
Apparently only 2 ever made, and nearly 50 years later it is unrivalled by any New School Computer cars.
920 BHP
890FT/LB Torque.

[big_landau]

i think he gave one to bill cosby,a good friend of his.lets see a toyota beat this one!

[ohzone]

Found a little more info

http://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/f...-all-time.html

1966 Cobra Super Snake
Sometimes Carroll Shelby just does things because he's Carroll Shelby. The Cobra 427 was already the most vicious car in production anywhere when he decided to get really outrageous. So he took two of the Competition Roadsters that were gathering dust at his shop, bolted twin Paxton superchargers to their 427s, added huge hood scoops and replaced the manual transmissions with beefier three-speed automatics. With somewhere between 800 and 900 hp on tap, these two Cobras are simply the most ludicrous creations ever to come out of Shelby's shop.

Shelby kept one of the Super Snakes for himself and sold the other to his friend Bill Cosby. The sheer insanity of the Super Snake inspired Cosby's famous "200 MPH" comedy routine in which the car scares Cosby to his core doing nothing but idling. Legend says Cosby returned the car to Shelby after just one drive in it. The Cosby Super Snake's second owner, Tony Maxey, lost his life when he lost control of the car, went off a cliff and ended up in the Pacific Ocean.

Shelby's personal Super Snake was sold at the 2007 Barrett-Jackson auction for $5.5 million, then the highest price ever paid for an American car.

[PlukaDuck]

Originally Posted by ohzone

Found a little more info

http://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/f...-all-time.html

1966 Cobra Super Snake
Sometimes Carroll Shelby just does things because he's Carroll Shelby. The Cobra 427 was already the most vicious car in production anywhere when he decided to get really outrageous. So he took two of the Competition Roadsters that were gathering dust at his shop, bolted twin Paxton superchargers to their 427s, added huge hood scoops and replaced the manual transmissions with beefier three-speed automatics. With somewhere between 800 and 900 hp on tap, these two Cobras are simply the most ludicrous creations ever to come out of Shelby's shop.

Shelby kept one of the Super Snakes for himself and sold the other to his friend Bill Cosby. The sheer insanity of the Super Snake inspired Cosby's famous "200 MPH" comedy routine in which the car scares Cosby to his core doing nothing but idling. Legend says Cosby returned the car to Shelby after just one drive in it. The Cosby Super Snake's second owner, Tony Maxey, lost his life when he lost control of the car, went off a cliff and ended up in the Pacific Ocean.

Shelby's personal Super Snake was sold at the 2007 Barrett-Jackson auction for $5.5 million, then the highest price ever paid for an American car.

$ 5,500,000.00 OMG That is a lot of zeros

[mik]

Mr Shelby was a true trend setter and a unique individual, love his art work .

[Ozzyiceman]

"Too much horsepower is just about enough." - Carroll Shelby

[JG34JA]

Not a computer chip in sight ...... Niiiiiiiiiice

[snowcone]

Shelby or not, it probably handled like a piece of cr@p as most of the US muscle cars did when it came to going around corners, hence the other owners demise

[big_landau]

Originally Posted by snowcone

Shelby or not, it probably handled like a piece of cr@p as most of the US muscle cars did when it came to going around corners, hence the other owners demise

someone had to come along and spoil all the fun!

[BPXR6T]

Who said blow thru doesn't work...

[Moby Vic]

Originally Posted by snowcone

Shelby or not, it probably handled like a piece of cr@p as most of the US muscle cars did when it came to going around corners, hence the other owners demise

Racing Cobras beat every car in the world in sportscar racing. And of course the Cobra was based on the English AC Ace (but the 427 cars were a new animal).

The Super Snakes obviously emphasized straight-line and top-end performance, however.

But hey, might as well bash the USA if you have the chance.

[GTB 351]

Yea, a lot of people died in those old Cobra's, but hey, if its too hot in the kitchen - get the ---- out!
At the time they were the most awesome car on the planet and with the GT40 won just about everything on the planet: give respect where its due!

[pottery beige]

Originally Posted by snowcone

Shelby or not, it probably handled like a piece of cr@p as most of the US muscle cars did when it came to going around corners, hence the other owners demise

big cubes.. big hp.. little car.. way tooo much for yooo.....

[noosacuda]

Originally Posted by snowcone

Shelby or not, it probably handled like a piece of cr@p as most of the US muscle cars did when it came to going around corners, hence the other owners demise

Uneducated Gen Y Philestine! Try reading up on them... REAL muscle cars, although they were indeed a Sports Car.

[ebxr8240]

Originally Posted by snowcone

Shelby or not, it probably handled like a piece of cr@p as most of the US muscle cars did when it came to going around corners, hence the other owners demise

Guess it's that nut again ???

[big_landau]

maybe he has smoked one too many snowcones

[PlukaDuck]

Originally Posted by big_landau

maybe he has smoked one too many snowcones

Hahaha.......thats hilarious.
But wouldnt be as funny as watching a snowcone drive around an
ac cobra in a customline/mainline.........

[jpd80]

Originally Posted by snowcone

Shelby or not, it probably handled like a piece of cr@p as most of the US muscle cars did when it came to going around corners, hence the other owners demise

Double the power of the new FPV GT 335 in a car that weighs the same as a Fiesta..

Even with a 351, a replica Cobra is a wicked car to drive, so imagine the original with a blown 427..

The original boast on this car was that it could go 0-160 kph, come to a complete stop
and get to 160 kph again before an E- type jag got there the first time.

[crymoarpls]

Originally Posted by jpd80

The original boast on this car was that it could go 0-160 kph, come to a complete stop
and get to 160 kph again before an E- type jag got there the first time.

if you could keep it straight!

[Polyal]

That shape, those pipes and cubes...damn

About the closest Ill get to that machine is the pretty little die-cast I have of it. A replica would be nice but I think the enviro nerds these days have had their say on that too :(

[TC200six]

Originally Posted by snowcone

Shelby or not, it probably handled like a piece of cr@p as most of the US muscle cars did when it came to going around corners, hence the other owners demise

Those damned stupid American cars, did you hear they don't handle well? Why doesn't the public get together to ban those bad handling pieces of **** and make everyone drive European cars only because they handle better.

If it don't handle, it ain't cool.