Look how loose, but responsive that thing is......if you have the skill to handle it, so much fun!

@bloqk16

Жыл бұрын

That car would be a handful to drive considering it was mostly mechanical grip, as it only had a front and rear deck lip spoilers.

Nice drifting

The real meaning of " a handful to drive".

best asmr

I saw 1.6G on the meter. That's pretty damn good for 60 year old technology.

The FIRST 100% American built car to win an FIA Sanctioned International road racing series in history. Should've been 1964 but happened a year later in 1965 because Enzo Ferrari got the FIA to cancel the last race in 1964 at Monza to cost Shelby a chance at the championship which he would've more likely won as the Daytona at Monza was almost 10 mph faster than the 250 GTO and there were no chicanes to eff up the fast cars back then. By 1965 Shelby had been asked by Ford to take the prototype GT(40) program over from John Wyer so he turned the Shelby Cobra team over to Alan Mann racing out of England to conquer the GT championship which he did with drivers like Bob Bondurant at Rheims, France so appropriately on July 4, 1965.

@thefastandthedead1769

9 ай бұрын

100% American built? Really? Every Cobra chassis was built by AC Cars in the UK and is an evolution of the AC Ace 2.6 with minor changes. The earliest drawings of what became known as the Cobra were in fact titled Ace 3.6. The 260 cui had not yet been developed as an option. As far as Monza goes, yes Enzo was terrified! He tried to get the 250LM homologated but the FIA was wise to his sharp practises with the 250GTO... As such he was left with only one option to not lose the race and that was get the GT3 class "dropped". He had considerable sway in Italy and managed it and therefore would be highly likely to win the championship. The Auto Club d'Italia replaced the GT3 class with its own special "Italian GT class" which means that the 250GTO's would race and claim points unopposed by the Cobras. Cobras would have to win the top two positions in the Tour de France. This was a tall order over such a grueling set of stages and races all in the same trim. The Shelby team just did not have the man power to cover the Tour sufficiently. They tried but to no avail. It was a tall order with very little time for servicing before scrambling to make it to the next track. The actual track suited the Cobra with high speeds but the roads between didn't... It was very difficult to carry out the servicing and make the event timetable. The last race in Bridgehampton, USA, did not carry enough points as it was shorter. Cobras swept the board there in GT3. Shelby was livid of course and ran a Cobra with the letters (NYFAIM) on the boot lid. It stands for next year ('65) Ferraris ass is mine! And it was. :-) Going back to Monza the 250GTO could only hope to win on reliability as it lost out on acceleration and top speed. Monza then was a very high-speed circuit. At LeMans Cobras had demonstrated their reliability so hopping that they would all break was not going to work. It is also interesting to not the Cobras were sabotaged at least twice. Once at Spa (Shelby Daytona) and ACs own coupe at LeMans. Both times involved a cloth and newspaper being inserted through the filler cap into the fuel tanks respectively. You can see after this point that there was a pad lock on the filler cap of the Shelby cars.

great! I was in dijon and Cobras ruled the game . Daytona 260 KM/h on the finish line faster than BMW m1 Capri Cosworth etc.

Son moteur typique du V8 Américain, un grand moment !!!. 👍👍👍👍

In the words of Jason Plato "it's a fighter"

*Driving home after Taco Bell*

Great Lap👍

She's a dancer, and she has a good partner, like to know what motor your running, doesn't sound like a small block.

@feydespiel.

6 күн бұрын

Probably 427 big block..

Is this a 289, so, no-swaps? Windsor Hi-po?

est ce que les pneu date de 66? on dirait qu'il est sur la neige

@TheRedBaron_01

Жыл бұрын

Je pense que c’est la tenue de route de la voiture elle meme qui est horrible. La cobra est connue pour ça

@patrickGforce

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRedBaron_01 oui mais là c'est pire que pire.