AC Cobra | The iconic British roadster
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- The AC Cobra - an automotive legend without equal.
Manufactured in England by AC Cars.
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Film production:
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Music Scoring:
Pascal Conza - / pascal-conza
probably the most iconic car ever made… it deserves a rebirth with all the english lineage… my father owned an xk-150 jag but dreamed of an actual cobra… got to drive a mustang shelby 350 but never gave up the lust. make a porsche killer and never look back
Stunning!
Well I think The iconic British roadster needs a better advertisement
Get One! Buy One! And Gooooooo!!!!🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁
No country makes cars quite like the British do!!
AC were useless until an American stepped in though
Umm, not to burst your bubble, but the cobra was developed by an american.
Also, most cars made by the british are garbage.
Yes, we did once!
@@SheluvsMew
The AC Cobra was developed from the AC Ace..ie a British design 👍
very nice
wow amazing
I want All cobra !! 🤩
Where is the dominating orchestra? Under the seat?
since her name is Diana, Hermes had met Artermis's roman counterpart
I really love this car, but why do British Car Manufacturers insist on putting the steering wheel on the wrong side?
Why would you want to change gear with your right hand?
Maybe because we drive on the other side of the road
You Forget : Caroll Shelby , an American guy who creates the Cobra..
Ac cobra is a British manufacturer that was recognised by caroll Shelby
Qué máquina el cobra pero me quedo con el Pantera
A shame there are none being made
Can a "car" look mor randy, more wicked than IT?
Of course not.
RAAAAHHHH 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅
Why the American flag, this is a British 🇬🇧 car
All the Brit has been removed from those, beginning with the very first V8 swapped in by Shelby. Calling those "British" is like calling Bidumb "A Great President"
Let's go Brandon
Only thing American about it is the engine, changing what's under the hood doesn't change what it is, if you live by that logic your wife is probably a man.
no
The shape is such a quintessentially British small sports car design. You can never remove that.
You need to go on the internet and search up ac cobra and where it was originally from
I was going to buy one...
Then I noticed it starts on they Key and does NOT have.
A Big Red Start Button...
Deal Breaker
What a girl 🤣
English company...American engineer...sorry Brits that has more blood here across the pond...
what engineer?
@@mikescott8012 Shelby of course
Not quite true, the car was designed & built by AC & originally for an 8 but they instead dropped a 6 in for their Euro production version. Shelby did a deal with AC asking if they would build him a version modified to accept a V8 engine to go racing. AC agreed as that was what the car was originally designed for. AC modified the car added things such as upgraded steering, a stronger rear differential to handle the increased engine power, upgraded it's brakes & suspension & a rework of the front end bodywork to handle the larger V8 engine. After testing AC removed their V8 engine & transmission & the car was shipped over to Shelby in the US. All Shelby had to do was drop his Ford sourced V8 & transmission in the chassis. Later versions of the Cobra's design involved Shelby however it was still AC engineers doing all the design & build work. The completed cars were then shipped over fully painted & trimmed out. When it came to the engine sure that was all Shelby but the rest of the car was all AC.
The first Cobras were arguably even less Shelby than that. As it wasn’t “his” engine. They were lightly tuned crate SBF’s. The first version received little more than final (re)assembly and tweaking in LA, before being sold. European market Cobras didn’t even get that, being built entirely by AC. Later development was largely attributable to Phil Remington, not Shelby, although he was a Shelby employee. In essence Shelby floated an idea to AC (others like Allard had been doing similar things for years), and AC did it, by themselves, in the UK, with minor changes to a car they already had developed for the Zephyr 6 motor. Being blunt, Shelby’s involvement was mostly sales and marketing. In typical Shelby fashion, he insisted on calling them “Shelby” Cobras, when really they were modded AC Ace’s, mated to a SBF. And they wore AC badges… As much as I liked Carrol Shelby’s public personality, his gift (post driving career), was largely spin and self promotion. Shelby’s labelling of early Cobras is possibly best explained by fellow racer and friend, the late great Dan Gurney, who stated, “Shel wasn’t overly encumbered with honesty”. He wasn’t nicknamed “Billy Sol” by his friends for nothing (a famous Texan con man). RIP Carroll Shelby. An inspiring, likeable and complex man, who whatever he was, can’t honestly be called the “engineer” of the Cobra.
@@whatdaheck32I’m writing this from Dallas, so no limey here. But seriously dude, Shelby wasn’t really the engineer behind the Cobra project, that title goes to AC UK, and later to arguably, to Phil Remington. (assisted by Ken Miles et Al). But the other poster is correct. The first Cobras were not designed or built stateside. AC deserves the credit for those. All Shelby did was give a crate SBF to AC and ask them to make it fit. He wasn’t even in the UK when they did it. It was arguably AC’s product until later versions were modified in the US for the FE engine, and even then, it was still an AC Ace underneath.. We love our local heroes here, but Shelby simply wrapped his persona around the car. He didn’t engineer it.
Well, the Cobra is the iconic American roadster....
The only thing American about it is the motor, The rest is all AC Ace.
To Carroll Shelby
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