COBRA REPLICAS 1980-2011. THE ESSENTIAL BUYER'S GUIDE

COBRA REPLICAS 1980-2011. THE ESSENTIAL BUYER'S GUIDE

IAIN AYRE

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21380
Idioma:
INGLES
Editorial:
VELOCE PUBLISHING PLC
Nº edición:
1
Año de edición:
2011
Materia
Cobra ac
ISBN:
978-1-84584-395-3
Páginas:
64
Encuadernación:
PORTADA EN RUSTICA
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195 mm x 139 mm
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Features

• Benefit from the author’s decades of reviewing, building and designing Cobra replicas
• The real facts you need when deciding whether a Cobra replica is for you
• Coverage of all UK models
• Where and how to buy a Cobra replica – whether to build or buy secondhand
• Advice on choosing the right type for your needs and your budget
• Key checks – how to spot a bad car quickly
• Comprehensive inspection guide
• In-depth analysis of strengths and weaknesses
• Discussion of upgrades as well as donor packages to avoid
• Details of club backup and support organizations
Description

STOP! Don’t buy a Cobra Replica without first buying this book!

Having this book in your pocket is just like having a real marque expert by your side. Benefit from the author’s years of real ownership experience, learn how to spot a bad car quickly, and how to assess a promising one like a true professional. Get the right car at the right price!
Synopsis

You might think a Cobra is an unattainable dream, and you’d be right. However, a replica that looks just like one and works rather better is not only attainable – it costs about the same as a Toyota.
Iain Ayre has been reviewing, building and designing Cobra replicas for decades: there’s nobody better to have in your pocket when you stop dreaming and start checking out buying or building one for real. This book condenses all you need to know into 64 packed pages covering Cobra types; low, medium and high budgets; buying pitfalls; engine and donor recommendations; good and bad points – pretty much everything you need to know to start scaring BMWs with budget V8 thunder.
Additional Information

Period Covered: 1980 to 2011

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• The real facts you need when deciding whether a Cobra replica is for you
• Coverage of all UK models
• Where and how to buy a Cobra replica – whether to build or buy secondhand
• Advice on choosing the right type for your needs and your budget
• Key checks – how to spot a bad car quickly
• Comprehensive inspection guide
• In-depth analysis of strengths and weaknesses
• Discussion of upgrades as well as donor packages to avoid
• Details of club backup and support organizations
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Having this book in your pocket is just like having a real marque expert by your side. Benefit from the author’s years of real ownership experience, learn how to spot a bad car quickly, and how to assess a promising one like a true professional. Get the right car at the right price!
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The 1959 Le Mans winner held an ambition to build such a car, and was seeking out opportunities. In 1961 the Chevrolet Corvette gave GM a distinct sporting image and Ford were looking to do likewise, through what became the Total Performance racing programme. This included getting track success with their new thin-wall lightweight V8 as well as their Indy engine programme, barely underway, and the later Cosworth F1 engine. What Ford needed, and quickly, was an agile chassis and race support. In England, AC had a great handling car that had swept all before it in the USA. When Carroll Shelby called Thames Ditton in 1961, he had already secured promises of the Ford V8s and finance for racing. AC, Shelby and Ford were soon in business.
Driven by racing, the Cobra's development was rapid. The model was homologated by the FIA as Shelby American, the engine was soon increased to 4.7 litres and the steering modified to rack and pinion. On the track, three US National Championships were secured in 1963, but success at International level did not come so easily. High-speed aerodynamics were poor even with a streamlined hard top, the handling something of a challenge, and there were the inevitable teething problems. By the start of the 1964 season Pete Brock's Shelby Daytona Coupé, then allowed by the regulations, had resolved the aerodynamic issue for racing. Shelby mounted a serious attempt at the FIA World Championship, with strong support from UK teams including Willment Racing and AC Cars. But, success again eluded the Cobra, with an SCCA Class Championship as consolation. Sadly, AC's superb A98 Le Mans Coupé was ill-fated, but not before AC had achieved a great deal of publicity and some notoriety by testing the car on the London – Birmingham Motorway one quiet Sunday morning at 185 mph!

AC car production had been at a virtual standstill for ten years, and the Company were totally reliant on other products to fund new car development. The main income stream was from invalid carriages, the first versions of which dated back to 1948. But, these were now subject to public criticism. In 1976 AC were surprised to be informed by the Department of Health that production would cease in March 1978. With the Town Car project discontinued by the Company, profitable production of the 3-Litre suddenly became crucial to AC Cars survival. The Company persevered, and after a number of changes to the model name, the first AC 3000ME was delivered towards the end of 1978, a LHD car destined for the Belgian agent.

The Company celebrated its centenary in 2001 with great hopes for the future. But demand did not take off as hoped. Whilst the Cobra Mk IV CRS was well received and found a steady line of customers, the much higher priced Superblower sold slowly. The revised Ace received mixed reviews, and the Aceca, Lotus-engined cars and Mamba did not reach production despite considerable effort and expenditure on development. By 2004, production of the Ace had ceased. Production of bare body/chassis units for a number of aluminium continuation cars, being made under contract to Shelby, was transferred to a small industrial unit near Guildford, and the equipment for manufacturing carbon fibre cars was moved to Malta. Establishing production there with a new workforce was a difficult undertaking. Only a handful of AC Mk Vs were made before that factory was closed, and was superseded by the AC MK VI announced in 2009 and before it went into production was updated in April 2011.
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Le livre fait un retour aux sources de cette belle "Success Story" américaine, depuis le lancement de l’AC Cobra en 1962, en passant par les Shelby GT 350, la Shelby GT 500, la Shelby Cobra 427, la Cobra Daytona et en arrivant à la version rééditée de la Shelby FIA Cobra en 2013.

Le livre porte une attention particulière sur la contribution précieuse de la brillante équipe de la marque Shelby, comprenant Phil Remington, Ken Miles, Peter Brock et de nombreux autres génies automobiles.

Éleveur de poulets texan puis pilote de course automobile, Carroll Shelby, l’inventeur de l’AC Cobra, se résilie, suite à ses problèmes de santé répétitifs, à lancer sa propre société de construction automobile, qui produira des voitures sportives ultra-performantes, devenues des références mondiales.

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