Carroll Shelby, Venice, California, 1963

THF705857 / Carroll Shelby, Venice, California, 1963
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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

Photographic print

Subject Date

February - April 1963

Collection Title

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2009.158.7026

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in