It’s not often a 50-year-old sports car can smoke everything from Corvettes and Ferraris, to Audis and Aston Martins. Then again, it’s not often a car like the Shelby Cobra comes along and rewrites ...

The year was 1963 and American cars were by and large massive metal V-8-powered machines. Even America's only sports car up until that time, the Corvette, was big and heavy. Produced with a thick ...

One of the greatest sports cars to ever bear the Shelby name is about to go up for grabs. Mecum Auctions will take bids for the 1965 289 Cobra Dragonsnake next week during its annual Kissimmee sale.

Viknesh Vijayenthiran January 20, 2014 Comment Now! It was 50 years ago that Shelby American introduced the FIA version of the small block Cobra, the 289 FIA Cobra, which would eventually go to ...

Chassis number CSX2532 left the AC Cars factory in the UK in 1964, before it was shipped stateside to be finished off by Shelby in California. As the supply of five-bolt block V-8s had actually run ...

On May 2nd, RM Sotheby’s will auction one of the most revered machines to be built on American soil. The 1962 Shelby 289 Competition Cobra is the focal point of this story, and the official estimates ...

Scott Richey has loved fast cars since childhoodhis father got him involved in the hobbyso its no surprise that when he chose to go the kit car route, his projects were of the Snake persuasion. Scott, ...

View post: This ‘Very Handy’ Black+Decker Tool Set Is Only $35 at Walmart Last month RM Auctions offered up the 427 Cobra prototype at its annual auction in Phoenix, and although it failed to meet ...

A rare Shelby Cobra, one of just six like it, sold over the weekend at Mecum's auction in Kissimmee, Florida, for $1.375 million, including the buyer's commission. The car is a 1965 Shelby Cobra ...

The power: 271 horsepower and 312 pound-feet of torque from a 289-cubic-inch V-8 (about 4.7 liters). Power is routed to the rear wheels via four-speed manual transmission. The speed: Motor Trend ...