Assembling the First Shelby Cobra at Dean Moon's Hot Rod Shop in Santa Fe Springs, California, February 1962
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Artifact Overview
Carroll Shelby took the auto enthusiast world by storm when he pulled the straight-6 engine from a lightweight British AC Ace roadster, replaced it with a Ford V-8, and created the Shelby Cobra. Between the 1962 and 1967 model years, Shelby American produced just under 1,000 Cobras variously equipped with 260-, 289- and 427-cubic-inch Ford engines.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Negative (Photograph)
Date Made
February 1962
Subject Date
February 1962
Creators
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2009.158.6208.1.7
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 2.375 in
Width: 2.375 in
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