It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.
The Cobra is my personal favorite car. The original 289 Cobra is the car I respect the most. I like to drive the 289 better than the 427.
In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He sa...
I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.
I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.
I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.
I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent I had a pretty unhappy home life.
The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-...