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Old 08-03-2015, 01:37 PM
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Default New Book on Cobras from MBI

The cover has sort of a jeans look and color. Hope to see some new art. Here's the publisher's description. I'll be writing a book review if I get one before it's in every store....
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Shelby Cobra
The Snake that Conquered the World
Colin Comer, Carroll Shelby

In the early 1960s, Carroll Shelby, a Texas chicken farmer turned champion race driver, had the audacity to think
he could start his own car manufacturing company. To further emphasize the gargantuan proportions of his
confidence, Shelby decided his company would manufacture nothing but ultrahighperformance
sports cars,
beginning with the landmark Cobra, introduced in 1962. To the amazement of everyone except Ol' Shel' himself,
Shelby Automobiles succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations, building cars that would provide
benchmarks for performance that stand to this day and winning world championships in the process.
Shelby Cobra is a complete history of Shelby's Cobra sports cars. It begins with the events that led up to
Shelby's decision to build a highperformance
sports car, continues with the story of the production Cobra street
cars and racecars, and wraps up with Shelby's continuation cars.
This special collector's edition includes new and updated material, with tributes to the late Carroll Shelby,
postersized
gatefolds with artwork by Hector Cadametori, and framable gar...
Summary
Contributor Bio
Colin Comer, respected authority on collector cars, is editoratlarge
for Sports Car Market and American Car
Collector magazines and a contributing editor for Road & Track magazine. Colin also regularly appears in such
diverse publications as the New York Times, Business Week, USA Today, among others. Comer is the author of
the bestselling and critically acclaimed books MillionDollar
Muscle Cars, The Complete Book of Shelby
Automobiles, and Shelby Cobra Fifty Years. When not writing about cars, Colin is an avid vintage racer and pilot.
He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with wife Cana, daughter Remington, and a herd of dogs. Official Website:
www.colincomer.com
Early in his career, Carroll Shelby's accomplishments as a race car driver included breaking landspeed
records
at Bonneville and winning Le Mans in 1959 with teammate Roy Salvadori. As a team manager, Carroll was part of
the FIA World Grand Touring Championship as well as the Ford GT victories at Le Mans. When his health forced
him to give up racing in 1960, Carroll turned his attention to design. The result is what is consid...

(on the publisher's website they cut it off there..sorry)
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