Shelby Question

[mike2]

In the 60's (when but a wee lad I was) my uncle took me to a race at Green Valley RaceWay, north of Dallas,TX. There was a sports car race going on that Sunday. The featured team and car that day was Carrol Shelby and the "King Cobra"
I was so taken by the Cobras that I have never forgotten that day.
I have since asked, cajoled and threatened people to tell me about the King Cobras. Nobody has been able to help me.
My question: Does anybody know of or remember the King Cobra. I have written Shelby with no response to date.
To the best of my recollection, it was a CanAm (type) car.
It was so much faster than the canam corvettes and others in the race that it lapped the field.
The car was magnificant as I remember it. If anybody has pictures of the car or know where I can find out about it please let me know.
Mike

[JoeC]

There was a CanAm car that Shelby called the King Cobra but I don't think it did very well against the alu Chevy BB cars.

[copo9566aa]

Sheby King Cobra [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img]
Full history in Shelby American Cobra/Mustang Guide.
It's a cooper Monaco 63/64 with a 289 Shelby in them.

[copo9566aa]

Color pic [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

King Cobra

[JoeC]

Roger, did they build a King Cobra with a 429 Ford engine? I remember a 429 Ford powered CanAm car that Mario Andretti blew up.

[copo9566aa]

JoeC I'am not an expert in Can-AM cars.
Really not [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/[/img]

[mike2]

Thanks copo, that is the most info anyone has had on this subject to date.
I do think that the car I am thinking about was a BB. But I will keep trying to find out more.
The pics you attached did have a resemblance to the car but as I recall it looked a little wider and lower with much larger rear tires. Fenders more flared, etc.
It very well could have been a SB car. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[copo9566aa]

This one [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img] ???
One with a 351 and one with a 427
Another Can Am in 67 "Cougar Cobra" resembling King Cobra. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[TimG]

The hard cover book of the Shelby Cobras will provide lots of great pictures in a chapter dedicated to this car.
There is a shot of one with front end damage and it looks like a fish mouth. They just hammered it straight and went on racing.

[mike2]

That's it copo. You are da man. Where in the world do you come up with all those pics.
Thanks again.
I knew it was bigger than the other previous pic. This car was bad to the bone, the day I saw it.