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AC Cobra 427 - Shelby's seven-liter powerhouse

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Created in 1982

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Max Nötzli

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AC Cobra 427 (1966) - breitspurig und kraftvoll auftretend

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AC Cobra 427 (1966) - in voller Fahrt

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AC Cobra 427 (1966) - die 427-Modelle kommen deutlich breiter daher als die Cobra 289

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AC Cobra 427 (1966) - das Cockpit der schnellsten Cobra

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AC Cobra 427 (1966) - das riesige Kraftwerk der Klapperschlange

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AC Cobra 427 (1966) - kraftvolle Statur

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Summary

The recipe used by former Le Mans winner Carroll Shelby almost 50 years ago was as simple as it was effective: he took a lightweight, two-seater roadster of the old English school and fitted it with a powerful V8 engine instead of the traditional six-cylinder engine. The result was breathtaking in the truest sense of the word. The Cobra 289 and 427 are among the fastest sports cars ever and the 1000 or so original examples are considered sought-after rarities. Even today, the acceleration capacity is still impressive.

This article contains the following chapters

More Shelby than AC
100 km/h in first gear
A "real one"

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The recipe used by former Le Mans winner Carroll Shelby almost 50 years ago was as simple as it was effective: he took a lightweight, two-seater roadster of the old English school and fitted it with a powerful V8 engine instead of the traditional six-cylinder engine. The result was breathtaking in the truest sense of the word. The American Shelby's career as a sports car manufacturer began in 1962, when he equipped a series of British AC two-liter sports cars with a Ford V8 engine with a displacement of initially 4.3 and later 4.7 liters. The AC Cobra, as Shelby called his Anglo-American creation, was not only one of the most powerful road cars ever built, it also formed the basis for a competition version that dominated countless races in the 1960s.

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