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Sonoma Classic Motorcars

30 MIll St. B Healdsburg California 95448 USA

1964 Shelby AC Cobra All Original Fully Restored For Sale

Sonoma Classic Motorcars and our new world wide brokerage Riviera MotorSports located in the Marina de Cascais is proud to present the fully restored all original 1964 Shelby AC Cobra CSX23xx delivered new in 1964. The last two numbers in the vin are omitted to protect the identity of the owner. The image included in the advert is for representation purpose only and is not the actual vehicle. Images and supporting documents will be provided upon request.
  Carroll Shelby’s 1962 Cobra represents the pinnacle of the Anglo-American sports car, which combined a classic aluminum roadster body (in this case cribbed from a 1950s Ferrari Barchetta) with a tube space frame and lightweight American V-8 engine.
  Shelby Cobra’s donor chassis came from AC. The AC Ace heretofore had utilized the pre-war BMW 2-liter, 6-cylinder engine, which was going out of production. Understanding that AC needed a replacement motor, Shelby tapped into his Ford connections to user their lightweight 260ci V-8. In the process, Shelby managed to get both sides to agree that the resultant sports car would be manufactured under the Shelby name.
  The overall package was dynamite, weighing only 2, 100 lbs, with a 260-hp engine mated to a four-speed transmission. Top speed was about 140 mph and 75 were built in 1962 and 1963 before the engine was replaced by Ford’s 271-hp, 289-cid V-8. In race-prepped guise, the engine generated up to 370 hp, and the cars were quite successful on the track. Between 1963 and 1965, 580 Shelby 289 Cobras were sold in the CSX 2000 series. All this power stretched the chassis capabilities, motivating Shelby to refine it with rack-and-pinion steering in place of the ancient worm and sector design.
  Both 289 and 427 Shelby Cobras are the apogee of bare-bone sports racers, and demand is fierce for these cars. They are one of the few blue-chip collectible American cars, with eager buyers residing the world over, so provenance is vital. Luckily, Shelby records are remarkably complete and correct cars will be accurately documented. Enthusiasts debate whether the sheer brute force of the 427 cars is preferable over the 289’s superior livability, but either way there is a Cobra to suit any taste (provided the taste is towards hair-raising motoring in one form or another).

1964 Shelby Cobra 289 R&P Fully Restored Matching Numbers
Steering - Rack and Pinion
Body Style 2dr Roadster
Engine Type 8-cyl. 289cid/ 271hp 4bbl

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