AC & Cobra

Read the title of the book carefully. It thoughtfully combines the names of AC Cars of Thames Ditton, down the river west from the centre of London, and Carroll Shelby, the wily Texan 'snake charmer', garage owner and ex-racing driver, with the name of 'Cobra’: the time-honoured story is that the Co..

Simon Taylor takes you through the varied manufacturing output of AC’s history from delivery tricycles to the GT World Championship winning, Ferrari eating, Cobra! The longevity of this marquee is extraordinary. More than ninety years of production have seen various crises a number of personalities...

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The exquisite AC Ace-Bristol roadster was a true thoroughbred amongst the classic high performance automobiles of that golden age which opened in the early 1950s. Built in tiny numbers by highly skilled craftsmen and powered by a powerplant engineered to the highest aircraft industry quality standar..

This is the story of one of the strangest matches ever made; a good ‘ole boy from Texas, the gentlemen at Thames Ditton, England and the simple businessmen of Dearborn, Michigan. John Christy probably describes the Cobra best having seen it debut at the New York Auto show in 1962, ‘everyone who saw ..

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This is the true story of Carroll Shelby's war against Enzo Ferrari, the cars and the men who made racing history. In Carroll Shelby’s own words: “I didn't do it to make history. You do something that you want to do or feel you have to do, because you like it and love it. And if it turns out to be h..

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