The First Three Shelby Cobras, The sports cars that changed the game, book

The First Three Shelby Cobras, The sports cars that changed the game, book

The story of three cars, the first AC Cobras created by the legendary Carroll Shelby in 1962.
The prototype Shelby Cobra CSX2000 is probably the most important modern American car. Although the Shelby Cobra was built on a British AC Ace chassis with an American Ford V8 engine. However, it started a new era in American racing. CSX2001 was the first production Cobra and CSX2002 the first to race. Subsequently leading to a series of competition successes that made Shelby’s Cobras famous and a favourite of sports-car enthusiasts throughout the world. Therefore The First Three Shelby Cobras, The sports cars that changed the game, book about those first three Shelby Cobras is a must have for every petrolhead.

The author – Gordon Bruce

A qualified mechanical engineer, Gordon Bruce was the Road Test Editor of Motor magazine. After that Gordon was a Ford PR manager before founding the eponymous marketing consultancy. He still operates this consultancy 35 years later. His first book concerned the Ford GT40, for which he was awarded a prize by the Guild of Motoring Writers. Bruce’s associations with the AC/Shelby Cobra date from 1983, when he won the Intermarque Championship in a 405bhp example.