In 1949, a poultry farmer surveyed a disaster. His face was tanned from hard work in the sun, rugged and creased. Carroll Shelby had the appearance of a man unafraid to get his hands dirty doing ...

One in particular became one of the most-recognized sports cars of the 20th century: the AC Cobra. After he retired from racing in 1959, Shelby quickly scanned the industry to find a business ...

Classic Ferrari race cars often steal the show at the world’s most prestigious car auctions, but not this year at Pebble Beach. The very first Cobra built by Carroll Shelby, which was used as ...

That car won more races in the '60s than any other Cobra," Gary Patterson, president of Shelby American, told the Detroit Free Press. "This was one of the winningest in the world. That's pretty ...

Carroll Shelby is one of the most iconic names in the world of fast American cars. Born in East Texas in 1923, Shelby was an accomplished racing driver, piloting Ferraris and Maseratis in competition.

dubbed his new car the Shelby Cobra and created a legend. As the engine displacement rose from 260 cubic inches to 289 and finally 427, Mr. Shelby almost single-handedly defined the modern muscle ...

Carroll Shelby, the legendary car designer and champion auto racer who built the fabled Shelby Cobra sports car and injected testosterone into Ford's Mustang and Chrysler's Viper, has died.

Perhaps most importantly, the car comes exclusively powered by a choice of two honking Ford V-8 engines. Carroll Shelby's AC Cobra Is Unmatched The 1965 Shelby Cobra Is Driving at Its Brightest ...

The race that clinched the tittle was Reims where Bob Bondurant won in CSX2601, the exact car to be auctioned this weekend. Development of the Daytona Cobra ceased after that success as both Ford and ...

Interested in buying a legend? The original Shelby Cobra, the very first car that Carroll Shelby hand-built, the one that kicked off the Shelby legacy that still carries on today, is going up for ...

From the August 2020 issue of Car and Driver. In the summer of 2018, David Karpik of Kenai, Alaska, nosed Shelby Cobra chassis CSX2060 out of his garage and onto the road. The drive was a short ...