Shelby Cobra

The Shelby Cobra is a sports car created by Carroll Shelby in the sixties based on the AC Ace. His intention was to be more competitive by placing a large Ford engine in a small sports car. He was successful, creating one of the most competitive grand tourers of all time. A coupe version known as the Shelby Daytona was also created. Because of its legendary and iconic status the Cobra is the most replicated car of all time with 99% of all Cobras being fake. The Cobra and Daytona were the inspiration for the Dodge Viper, which would go on to be competitive in GT racing itself. The Ford Mustang received a special Cobra package after the Shelby sports car. After the turn of the millennium special concept cars in tribute to the original models were created, but not produced. The Cobra's fiftieth anniversary was tributed at the Monterey Historic Automobile Races at Laguna Seca Raceway.