I had a 66 427 AC Cobra in my youth. Nothing built at the time could touch it in a drag race or a road race. My GF talked me into trading it on a Mustang..Wish I had kept the Cobra and traded girlfriends...
@@mauriziodileo6659 Doesn't need F1 to prove a point. Shelby/Ford kicked Ferrari's ass many times like Le Mans for example. And since we're talking about F1, Ferrari is inferior compared to the HONDA-powered Red Bull cars.
3,2 sec in 1960' s NOPE it ain't, skill is what u need, its easy to do 120mph in 2000' s Subaru, Audi etc, cause from all of those electronics^^ Old cars are cool and fast, but u must know what u, re doing. My first car was Audi coupe b2, great for really learning how to drive!
Amazing how fast the Cobra is. I know a Master mechanic who built 1,000 HP drag engines and he said the Cobra was the fast production car he ever drove.
I was actually there at the first Cobra vs. Ferrari international race at the Nürburgring circuit in 1964. The favorites in the Sports Car class were the three factory 250 GTO Ferraris, but Carrol Shelby , along with the cooperation of Ford had three (maybe it was two, I'm getting old) original race-prepared Cobras with the 289 V8 entered. I remember sneaking into the pit area, and seeing the Cobras up close (I was 17 at the time) and those 4 2-barrel sidedraft Weber setups were impressive! Long story short, all the Cobras fell out of the race due to mechanical troubles, but while they were running, WOW! I specifically remember one of the Cobras leave the pits at the same time as one of the Ferraris, with the Cobra following the Ferrari into the hairpin at the end of the pit straight, and then when they both came out of the corner to accelerate up the hill behind the pits, that Cobra passed the Ferrari like he was tied to a stump! By the time the Cobra went out of sight, he was at least 200 ft. ahead of the Ferrari! Things like that stay with you all your life, and it made me so proud to be an American!
That little 289 Shelby Cobra could shut down a lot of big muscle cars too, it was no slouch on the strip or road course. I think it had well over 300 HP, but the stock Hi-Po 289 had 271 and was a tire smoking son-of-a-gun. (even though they routinely got thumped by just about every muscle car on the road.)
A couple of comments for the curious, yes this is almost certainly either a Shelby continuation car or, given the bare aluminum body, a Kirkham replica (Kirkham supplies some of the bodies/chassis for Shelby American now) Somebody mentioned that the dash layout isn't 'original', it is in fact correct for a 427 SC car of which very few were made. This car is setup as a 427SC so it is obviously using the SC dash layout for that reason. Also, the same poster mentioned that the steering wheel doesn't say AC citing that as an error. That is not an error, only the 289 Cobra models were supplied with steering wheels that read AC on the button from Shelby. All big block cars except one were supplied with a steering wheel that had one of two Cobra designs in it, the one on this car reflects one of those designs and is correct in that regard.
TresLinguas is this not the car from the showroom that was around the corner at the time? In 2006 there was a polished 427 fe powered cobra at Shelby America in Vegas.
@@booboobear6490 I’ve done better than that homeslice. I’ve got a wife and an above average intellect which gives me time and money for hobby’s like cars from Shelby American. If you have time to peruse the internet posting meaningless commentary, then you need to move out of mom’s basement.
@@TresLinguas come on man, chill a little, your knowledge is way above the average car enthusiast and you should be secure in it! I'm happy you have a wife and can pursue your hobby. I myself would just be happy having a poster to pin to my wall...but you guessed it...mom won't let me 🥰👍❤
The thing with the Cobra & replicas is there is 1,000 different ways they can be built. I would take a well built Cobra over a Ferrari any day but this only means this particular Cobra is faster than the Ferrari. A cheap kit that uses a 5.0 Mustang as a donor is a hot car for the money but is a far cry from a real Cobra. A quality aluminium bodied replica with a 427 & the proper parts is very close to an original. That's what I like about the current Cobra replicas. Originals are so rare & expensive an original is not practical to go have fun with, even if you have the money but you can buy or build a replica to fit virtually any budget. You can go with something that uses a 5.0 Mustang donor for less than a new Toyota up to an aluminium bodied 427 that is a near clone, rivet for rivet, of an original.
Alejandro Portilla A high end, aluminium bodied Cobra with a period correct racing engine will cost you what a new Ferrari will cost and it won't depreciate like a new Ferrari will. Of course, it will never appreciate either. For 200 K or so you could get an older Ferrari that is likely to appreciate. The Cobra will always be worth what the car is, in that cost will be determined by the quality of the body, the quality of the engine & parts on the car as well as the overall condition. Age doesn't matter much. That's why it won't depreciate much if kept in like new condition but it will never go up in value. There will never be a collectors value on a kit car.
shananagans5 Travel down to Las Vegas Motor Speedway. I'm not sure if they moved, but they made REAL Cobras there. You could get a top notch rolling chassis for about 150k. That would have been for the fiberglass body. They also can be had with aluminum and carbon fiber bodies.........carbon fiber being really expensive. Then they'd have to be shipped to special speed shops for engine and trans, you pick which combination you want. Figure another 30-40k. If you got the change, that's where to go...........
Carroll Shelby designed the Cobra in direct response to Ferrari and other Italian manufacturers. His design won several races in the 1960s against Ferrari and others. Shelby still rules today.
Shelby did not design this car nor did he build it The cars were derived from the AC Ace and the originals were all built by AC in the UK and shipped to Shelby to install the engines and rename it the Cobra.
Apparently they had some random modern Ferrari available to race against a someone's random Cobra replicar and all they could come up with is renting a drag strip for a day instead of an actual road course.
Dan Blitzarian (The cobra owner) had been racing a road course in Florida a LOT at the time. His lawyer (Ferrari owner) bet him $380k that he could beat him in a race. After realizing that Dan had been road-racing he opted for a drag instead.
There are books out there that detail the history of the Cobra and a Cobra registry for the real ones. All told, there were just less than a thousand original Cobras made in several body styes and chassis styles during the orginal run made by the original AC Cars. Anything after that is either a continution model or a replica All orginals had hand formed aluminum bodies. Original motors were 260 cid Fords later moving up to 289 cid then 427/428 cid motors. Everything was origally designed for road racing. The first models were modified AC Ace's.
That was AWESOME!!!! and that SC 427 Shelby Cobra sounded AWESOME doing it. apparently that track was Las Vegas, it really looked like Firebird Raceway just outside of Boise Idaho. I have been to Firebird Raceway but it's been a long time ago.
Firebird raceway does indeed still look like that, but it won't be there for much longer as there are SO MANY tract houses goin up all around it...it takes an hour to get to Boise from Star using Chinden now, it's insane the amount of Californians who have moved here...
funny how 1960s technology and "no replacement for displacement" formula beats all the math and technology of today's supercars when it comes down to a straight quarter mile.
Diego V So misinformed. Cobra's dominated racing in the mid 60s, races with curves and all. Not hard to check how many wins Cobras had, and the Cobra Daytona Coupe was even meaner. But hey, you believe what you want.
From the looks of the 'burnout', I'm guessing the Ferrari driver is wearing his Ferrari shoes and puts 100 miles a year on the car. But pretty damn good for 247 cubic inches vs 427!
The cobra wasnt even shifting fast.... Big delay between shifts and still pulled a mid 10's. Back in '65 the average muscle car was probably about mid 14 to 15's if I am not mistaken.
The legend was that they were running the same quarter-mile times as the current top-dog cars like the Redeyes, GT500s, C8s, etc. The reality was the 14s, 15s, 16s (and slower depending on the weak 6 cylinder engines they put in some of the late 60s cars) and the fastest ones, secretly tuned before being turned over for magazine articles, were in the mid-13s. That being said, it was known that with drag slicks, headers, 4.56 gearing, etc., Hemicudas with such mods could run in the 10s. The exeptions, not the rules.
@@culcune production muscle cars in the 60s were running ~ 15-17 second quarter miles with automatics, and 13-15 second quarter miles with manuals. 1970 Boss 429 ran 12.3s quarter mile on a 5.5s 0-60... which is crazy if you compare it to other low 12s cars nowadays, which generally run 0-60s in the 3 second range. Anyway, 60s was before the clean air act, so you shouldn't compare these cars to modern cars, since they had less regulations. But 12.3s before muscle cars learned efficiency outside of power (aerodynamics, weight, drivetrain losses, transmission) is impressive.
@@callang9 Boss 429 Mustangs were handbuilt specialty cars as well, not a production car that rolled off an assembly line. Their engines were more akin to the handbuilt GT500 engines of today since the Boss cars were the only cars that engine made it into.
@@culcune @culcune To me, a production car is a car intended for road use, and one that the manufacturer produces before selling (ie you don't have to special order a car, or buy a car then go thru third party) As for it being hand built, virtually every car prior to the ~70s would be considered handbuilt nowadays, as the automation of the auto assembly line didn't come till ~1970.
@@callang9 They were built through a third party, Kar Kraft (don't quote me on that). I guess I would have to agree with you, overall, but the fact that a third party had a hand in them makes me think of them more as a race car than a car from an assembly line. Really, I am not trying to argue with you, but the 'Boss Nine' was more of an exception than the rule.
Damm cobra took off and never looked back im not a car guy i came here from the Bad Boys Scene when they chased down dude on the Cobra driving a Porsche
It doesn’t even count if he were to loose friends because he has one of the baddest of all cars made because it still holds his own, I always wanted one but always wrong time wrong money but I do have Shelby’s book on the Cobra and it is signed by him so I still have a piece of this cars past
Forget the elapsed time, look at the trap speeds. That’ll give you an idea of the horsepower being developed by each vehicle. There’s about 75-100hp difference between the cobra and the Ferrari.
Seeing 2 of my all time faviorates down the drag strip is just so elating it puts a smile on my face irrespective of who wins Its crazy how the loghtweight rudimentary shelby cobra is always able to gap almost anything
That Cobra looks like the 800 HP, Poland-Built, Shelby-licensed beauty a neighbor kept for a friend who sells them. I saw it turned around in the neighborhood and then loaded onto a trailer for delivery. I should have offered to drive it to the buyer.
I'm a huge AC Cobra fan, but 0:35 ... come on. This Ferrari driver is short shifting like a granny. I once got dragged off the lights by a 1990s Ferrari (no I don't own a Cobra haha) and that thing disappeared into the distance like a screaming bat out of hell. This guy is no racer.
Sadly the greens have banned all combustion cars from European roads from 2030 on in Germany they even reduced gas stations to only one per city from 2025 on now they ar trying to forbid trade with used combustion cars and classics :-(
I had a 66 427 AC Cobra in my youth. Nothing built at the time could touch it in a drag race or a road race. My GF talked me into trading it on a Mustang..Wish I had kept the Cobra and traded girlfriends...
Recovering Liberal Bummer, I did the same thing with my ‘67 Chevelle, 327 Quad, ... god I’m a dumbass!
😂😂😂😂
I've done the same on an 04' ZX-10R that was full Carbon fiber and full bolt ons...miss that bike so bad! So many bad choices lol
i feel sorry for you
Your hindsight is correct but you should have never put yourself in the position to have to make it,,,
the cobra has been kicking ass and taking names for years.
How you explained Ferrari 15 time world champion in the formula one???and ops cobra or any other American cars never make to formula one??🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@mauriziodileo6659 care to explain le mans?? 🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣
@@mauriziodileo6659 Doesn't need F1 to prove a point. Shelby/Ford kicked Ferrari's ass many times like Le Mans for example. And since we're talking about F1, Ferrari is inferior compared to the HONDA-powered Red Bull cars.
a real 1965 cobra costs more than the Ferrari, the drag strip, and the flag girl combined.
Danny Max bro they just sold Ferrari for $ 52 milion
Not that one!
A real one is much slower, too
3,2 sec in 1960' s
NOPE it ain't, skill is what u need, its easy to do 120mph in 2000' s Subaru, Audi etc, cause from all of those electronics^^
Old cars are cool and fast, but u must know what u, re doing.
My first car was Audi coupe b2, great for really learning how to drive!
Danny Max where did you get your info from? That's not even remotely correct.
old man Shelby is smiling in his grave
Y it’s a clone not a original lol
Everyone was stealing my name annoying it’s still a cobra body
Yeah but at least 600hp in the Cobra, 475hp in the (stock) Ferrari.. The Cobra is heavily modified
it should win easily..
@@ssdtrain1 oh yeah but is what shelby was all about also its hard to tell if thats a real shelby or one of the thousands of replicas
@@lolo27234 That's a Rep for sure, no one risk a real one on the track
Amazing how fast the Cobra is. I know a Master mechanic who built 1,000 HP drag engines and he said the Cobra was the fast production car he ever drove.
Carol Shelby is a Legend for a reason, even from the grave he is Kickin ass. Apart from Steve Jobs, no-one in modern times can make that claim!!!
I good to see American Muscle is alive and well! Thumb Up!
THE COBRA IS AN ALL-TIME WINNER
I was actually there at the first Cobra vs. Ferrari international race at the Nürburgring circuit in 1964. The favorites in the Sports Car class were the three factory 250 GTO Ferraris, but Carrol Shelby , along with the cooperation of Ford had three (maybe it was two, I'm getting old) original race-prepared Cobras with the 289 V8 entered. I remember sneaking into the pit area, and seeing the Cobras up close (I was 17 at the time) and those 4 2-barrel sidedraft Weber setups were impressive! Long story short, all the Cobras fell out of the race due to mechanical troubles, but while they were running, WOW! I specifically remember one of the Cobras leave the pits at the same time as one of the Ferraris, with the Cobra following the Ferrari into the hairpin at the end of the pit straight, and then when they both came out of the corner to accelerate up the hill behind the pits, that Cobra passed the Ferrari like he was tied to a stump! By the time the Cobra went out of sight, he was at least 200 ft. ahead of the Ferrari! Things like that stay with you all your life, and it made me so proud to be an American!
David Berry like to have been there too
More bullshit.
You are a lucky guy....you watched how history was made. I really envy your experience. Regards.
That little 289 Shelby Cobra could shut down a lot of big muscle cars too, it was no slouch on the strip or road course. I think it had well over 300 HP, but the stock Hi-Po 289 had 271 and was a tire smoking son-of-a-gun. (even though they routinely got thumped by just about every muscle car on the road.)
Your story sir makes me i was there too and this is my dreams car and I will buy one for me
Hey Little Cobra don't you know you're gonna shut em down!
A couple of comments for the curious, yes this is almost certainly either a Shelby continuation car or, given the bare aluminum body, a Kirkham replica (Kirkham supplies some of the bodies/chassis for Shelby American now) Somebody mentioned that the dash layout isn't 'original', it is in fact correct for a 427 SC car of which very few were made. This car is setup as a 427SC so it is obviously using the SC dash layout for that reason. Also, the same poster mentioned that the steering wheel doesn't say AC citing that as an error. That is not an error, only the 289 Cobra models were supplied with steering wheels that read AC on the button from Shelby. All big block cars except one were supplied with a steering wheel that had one of two Cobra designs in it, the one on this car reflects one of those designs and is correct in that regard.
know your stuff Tres.
TresLinguas is this not the car from the showroom that was around the corner at the time? In 2006 there was a polished 427 fe powered cobra at Shelby America in Vegas.
You need a girlfriend
@@booboobear6490 I’ve done better than that homeslice. I’ve got a wife and an above average intellect which gives me time and money for hobby’s like cars from Shelby American. If you have time to peruse the internet posting meaningless commentary, then you need to move out of mom’s basement.
@@TresLinguas come on man, chill a little, your knowledge is way above the average car enthusiast and you should be secure in it! I'm happy you have a wife and can pursue your hobby. I myself would just be happy having a poster to pin to my wall...but you guessed it...mom won't let me 🥰👍❤
Cobra's gonna run out of fuel waiting for the Ferrari to stage (lol)!
Yay Cobra! A beautiful shiny beast that is!
In the immortal word of Chuck Berry's "Maybelline," "Nothing outruns my V-8 Ford."
RUclips decides "here watch this we think you will like it" top of the recomended list 8 years later. Anyone else watching December 2019?
March 2020!
132/mph is pretty impressive.
Ford baby! Proud to be an American
Whats that have to do with Ford?
FutureArboriginal the motor?
Amen brother
Do you have any idea how impressive it is that "Manual", "RWD", "Front Engine", "N/A", car w/o a top @that can pull a 10.74 quarter mile😱😱😵😵😍😍😎😎
this race was a $380,000 bet between Dan Bilzerian (AC Cobra) and Tom Goldstein (458 Italia)
His book brought me here...good call!
I thought that was that Douche.
Gay beard alerted me.
Is this true?
@@jonnyboy3674 That's what I read on Wikipedia
Someone commented that he mentioned the race in his book, too
Dan had a cobra
American muscle at a fraction of the cost....gotta love it.
I have always been a Cobra fan. I wonder who would win on a track with corners, since that is what both cars were designed for.
Cobra sound insane!
50 years and the Cobra still can’t be touched
Old school rules
The thing with the Cobra & replicas is there is 1,000 different ways they can be built. I would take a well built Cobra over a Ferrari any day but this only means this particular Cobra is faster than the Ferrari. A cheap kit that uses a 5.0 Mustang as a donor is a hot car for the money but is a far cry from a real Cobra. A quality aluminium bodied replica with a 427 & the proper parts is very close to an original.
That's what I like about the current Cobra replicas. Originals are so rare & expensive an original is not practical to go have fun with, even if you have the money but you can buy or build a replica to fit virtually any budget. You can go with something that uses a 5.0 Mustang donor for less than a new Toyota up to an aluminium bodied 427 that is a near clone, rivet for rivet, of an original.
..still cost ya much less than the Ferrari. With the cost of that Ferrari you can build one hell of a Cobra.
Alejandro Portilla A high end, aluminium bodied Cobra with a period correct racing engine will cost you what a new Ferrari will cost and it won't depreciate like a new Ferrari will. Of course, it will never appreciate either.
For 200 K or so you could get an older Ferrari that is likely to appreciate.
The Cobra will always be worth what the car is, in that cost will be determined by the quality of the body, the quality of the engine & parts on the car as well as the overall condition. Age doesn't matter much. That's why it won't depreciate much if kept in like new condition but it will never go up in value. There will never be a collectors value on a kit car.
and wat is the sense of your coment
Needles Kane Just pointing out it isn't Cobra vs. Ferrari. It's this particular builder vs. Ferrari. There are 1,000 different ways to build a Cobra
shananagans5 Travel down to Las Vegas Motor Speedway. I'm not sure if they moved, but they made REAL Cobras there. You could get a top notch rolling chassis for about 150k. That would have been for the fiberglass body. They also can be had with aluminum and carbon fiber bodies.........carbon fiber being really expensive. Then they'd have to be shipped to special speed shops for engine and trans, you pick which combination you want. Figure another 30-40k. If you got the change, that's where to go...........
A 289 Cobra won the world championship in the 60s. They weren't allowed to race the 427 because they hadn't build enough.
Cobra is like 10 times more exciting than that computer with wheels
Until you put it on a track. Cobras handle terrible
@@adamfacey5555 nah
@@adamfacey5555 LOL the cobras and gt40s anihhilated ferrari at le mans
@@adamfacey5555 Just get a modern suspension setup. If your dropping this kind of money on a car you can upgrade some stuff
@@Vidata Lol or learn to drive.
Which one to choose.... i'll take the flag girl!
Vega Punk ii
I'll take the bad ass cobra,then I can have all the flag girls I can handle!
With either of those cars, you can have all the flag girls you wantt!
Is the drag strip slightly downhill or is that just the camera angle?
What ever you do.. do not follow Dan Blizarian on Facebook. You will be clinically depressed for the rest of your life.
m8 do i get free lukemia now
m8 his dank username
Thanks for the warning.
It's too late for me :( I will never be happy again..
xcr4syx what happened?
Carroll Shelby designed the Cobra in direct response to Ferrari and other Italian manufacturers. His design won several races in the 1960s against Ferrari and others. Shelby still rules today.
Shelby did not design this car nor did he build it
The cars were derived from the AC Ace and the originals were all built by AC in the UK and shipped
to Shelby to install the engines and rename it the
Cobra.
There,s just no substitute for cubic inches. A. 427 Cobra will go from 0-100-0 in under 13 seconds. And do it all day long
Best part is the victory and it's pretty funny to watch an Alpha collect his winnings ))
Apparently they had some random modern Ferrari available to race against a someone's random Cobra replicar and all they could come up with is renting a drag strip for a day instead of an actual road course.
Dan Blitzarian (The cobra owner) had been racing a road course in Florida a LOT at the time. His lawyer (Ferrari owner) bet him $380k that he could beat him in a race. After realizing that Dan had been road-racing he opted for a drag instead.
Sounds so good!
There are only 4 gears.
The fifth is taking the girls HOME.
Regards from Germany. 🙂❤☺👌🤓
The first time I saw a Cobra and Ferrari racing each other was in the movie "Gumball Rally" from 1976. As far as I remember it was a stalemate.
Chauntel Shannon :" I never race in a river before". Raul Julia
Nice race, but where is the chick with the Daisy Dukes and long legs from the thumbnail?
Came here after reading Dan Bilzerian's autobiography 'The Setup' (the guy in the Cobra). This race was for $300k if I remember correctly
Who would have thought that a 2017 Ford GT with a 3.5 liter twin turbo V6 would run right with this 427 Cobra! Time is a changing!
Mustang is Mustang only with V8.
@@topivaltanen4432 I feel the same way, I had a '66 Mustang 289 while in college and it served me fine and was fun to drive.
There are books out there that detail the history of the Cobra and a Cobra registry for the real ones. All told, there were just less than a thousand original Cobras made in several body styes and chassis styles during the orginal run made by the original AC Cars. Anything after that is either a continution model or a replica All orginals had hand formed aluminum bodies. Original motors were 260 cid Fords later moving up to 289 cid then 427/428 cid motors. Everything was origally designed for road racing. The first models were modified AC Ace's.
Good set up on that cobra
geez 10.74 @ 132, that cobra is fast! looks awesome in chrome too
Polished Aluminum.
It is funny how the Cobra hooks up considering the independent rear suspension was not designed for drag racing.
That was AWESOME!!!! and that SC 427 Shelby Cobra sounded AWESOME doing it. apparently that track was Las Vegas, it really looked like Firebird Raceway just outside of Boise Idaho. I have been to Firebird Raceway but it's been a long time ago.
Firebird raceway does indeed still look like that, but it won't be there for much longer as there are SO MANY tract houses goin up all around it...it takes an hour to get to Boise from Star using Chinden now, it's insane the amount of Californians who have moved here...
funny how 1960s technology and "no replacement for displacement" formula beats all the math and technology of today's supercars when it comes down to a straight quarter mile.
bulshit
@@przadlo1488 nope
Cobra’s are just PURE, Adrenalin Machines, OH YEAH, and you’ll get plenty of women with them
as well! ! !
The Cobra driver blew his trial run by losing traction at launch, a mistake he didn't repeat during the actual race.
AC didn't sound like he topped out each gear lol ❤
LOVE that Cobra! Wish it was mine!!!!
It's hard to out run a Cobra
Love that shiny aluminum....I love shiny things...i usually put them in my shiny box...shiny...shiny...shiny
I'll take that protype silver every day of the week, over take look-@-me bling thing!
Since neither car was built for the drag strip. A better test would be take them to a road course like Laguna Seca.
ferrari would win because cobra can't takes curves well at all
Diego V So misinformed. Cobra's dominated racing in the mid 60s, races with curves and all. Not hard to check how many wins Cobras had, and the Cobra Daytona Coupe was even meaner. But hey, you believe what you want.
Buckaroo543 While you are right about the 60's, we are talking about the models in this video. I'm a Cobra lover, though.
Diego V......The Cobra is a 65 427 Shelby, (says so in the video intro) I'd say that would be the "60s".
Buckaroo543 I'm not saying otherwise. The ferrari is not from the 60's, though.
Has the Cobra engine been modified?
That was a close race, both drivers had almost identical reaction times but i always put my money on the vintage cobra..
From the looks of the 'burnout', I'm guessing the Ferrari driver is wearing his Ferrari shoes and puts 100 miles a year on the car. But pretty damn good for 247 cubic inches vs 427!
American Muscle Cars are always better Drag cars !! 👍 😎
The cobra wasnt even shifting fast.... Big delay between shifts and still pulled a mid 10's. Back in '65 the average muscle car was probably about mid 14 to 15's if I am not mistaken.
The legend was that they were running the same quarter-mile times as the current top-dog cars like the Redeyes, GT500s, C8s, etc. The reality was the 14s, 15s, 16s (and slower depending on the weak 6 cylinder engines they put in some of the late 60s cars) and the fastest ones, secretly tuned before being turned over for magazine articles, were in the mid-13s. That being said, it was known that with drag slicks, headers, 4.56 gearing, etc., Hemicudas with such mods could run in the 10s. The exeptions, not the rules.
@@culcune production muscle cars in the 60s were running ~ 15-17 second quarter miles with automatics, and 13-15 second quarter miles with manuals.
1970 Boss 429 ran 12.3s quarter mile on a 5.5s 0-60... which is crazy if you compare it to other low 12s cars nowadays, which generally run 0-60s in the 3 second range.
Anyway, 60s was before the clean air act, so you shouldn't compare these cars to modern cars, since they had less regulations.
But 12.3s before muscle cars learned efficiency outside of power (aerodynamics, weight, drivetrain losses, transmission) is impressive.
@@callang9 Boss 429 Mustangs were handbuilt specialty cars as well, not a production car that rolled off an assembly line. Their engines were more akin to the handbuilt GT500 engines of today since the Boss cars were the only cars that engine made it into.
@@culcune @culcune To me, a production car is a car intended for road use, and one that the manufacturer produces before selling (ie you don't have to special order a car, or buy a car then go thru third party)
As for it being hand built, virtually every car prior to the ~70s would be considered handbuilt nowadays, as the automation of the auto assembly line didn't come till ~1970.
@@callang9 They were built through a third party, Kar Kraft (don't quote me on that). I guess I would have to agree with you, overall, but the fact that a third party had a hand in them makes me think of them more as a race car than a car from an assembly line. Really, I am not trying to argue with you, but the 'Boss Nine' was more of an exception than the rule.
What’s up with the body finish (or lack of) on the Cobra??!!
it's polished Aluminium and a Kirkham cobra iirc
Damm cobra took off and never looked back im not a car guy i came here from the Bad Boys Scene when they chased down dude on the Cobra driving a Porsche
With the Cobra's light weight and huge engine, I'm not surprised.
Thats no Factory Five Cobra, thats the "Kirkham" companys car, out of Provo Utah..for $300k..you better get a burner
Yea hand built all aluminum in a polish mig factory :)
old American muscle is the coolest and and just looks TUFF even if that cobra lost it would look good losing.......
Cobra doesn’t know how to lose
Especially not to sombre bitchass Ferrari.
cobra owner is Dan Bilzerian. so no wonder how it wins!
You just can't beat old school muscles cars love to see that
It doesn’t even count if he were to loose friends because he has one of the baddest of all cars made because it still holds his own, I always wanted one but always wrong time wrong money but I do have Shelby’s book on the Cobra and it is signed by him so I still have a piece of this cars past
Forget the elapsed time, look at the trap speeds. That’ll give you an idea of the horsepower being developed by each vehicle. There’s about 75-100hp difference between the cobra and the Ferrari.
And the Cobra probably could have shaved another couple of tenths if he had power shifted. Sounds like it was driven by my grandmother.
The Ferrari is so much more than just a straight line machine. Drag racing doesn't do it justice.
"Hey little Cobra getting ready to strike"
The cobra had tires made for a drag strip... It was also not stock.
I love the engine notes. The Ferrari probably red lines 4000rpm higher than the FE. But just can't match the BBF torque.
I thought that strip looked familiar, I lived in Las Vegas 1970 til 2005, lots of changes over those years too.
Seeing 2 of my all time faviorates down the drag strip is just so elating it puts a smile on my face irrespective of who wins
Its crazy how the loghtweight rudimentary shelby cobra is always able to gap almost anything
That Cobra looks like the 800 HP, Poland-Built, Shelby-licensed beauty a neighbor kept for a friend who sells them. I saw it turned around in the neighborhood and then loaded onto a trailer for delivery. I should have offered to drive it to the buyer.
Wow ,the cakes on the flag girl are stupendous!!!
Nice try chevy, thanks for playing
the guy driving the cobra is granny shifting
that's Dan Bilzerian
He still can't shift!!
Dad has a 64 cobra with the 289. It would run that Ferrari as well.
10.74? This car must have been heavily tuned, but people get excited like it's an original 60s machine
GVW, incredible horsepower, short wheel base.....Shelby Cobra. Not to mention it's handling and suspension!
I'm a huge AC Cobra fan, but 0:35 ... come on. This Ferrari driver is short shifting like a granny. I once got dragged off the lights by a 1990s Ferrari (no I don't own a Cobra haha) and that thing disappeared into the distance like a screaming bat out of hell. This guy is no racer.
Is this recorded on VHS?
Cobra is the cherry on top of the automobile cake
ironically, it's the 289's that held all the records from the AC to the Daytona. Not until Lemans did the 427 make a record.
Cobra is so quick through 1 and 2. Torque.
Sadly the greens have banned all combustion cars from European roads from 2030 on in Germany they even reduced gas stations to only one per city from 2025 on now they ar trying to forbid trade with used combustion cars and classics :-(
It's not too difficult to predict the outcome of a quarter mile race where one car out weighs the other car by at least 800 to 1000 pounds.
cobra its beautiful car..
I like how ya cant even hear the ferrari till the cobra lets off
Oh shit. That was Dan Blezarian driving the Kirkham Cobra.
Oh shit that was Dan Bilzerian in his Kirkham car 👍
Damn that cobra in chrome looks awesome.
chrome ? Alu.
Or polished aluminum.
Cobra goes hard!
The, Cobra, wins that race easy. From Donald in Valley Village CA 😆 y
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Imagine the cobra didn't have barn door aerodynamics then it would easy be a 9 second car
Who cares? That's what also makes it so BAD.
Is that Dan Bilzerian in that Cobra? Wholly Fack!
Looks like a kirkham cobra image if it had all wheel drive
The Cobra is all driver skill while the Ferrari is computers
That cobra sounds like its going so slow down the track. Like its got huge time inbetween shifts and low rpms
Drag racing is for men who wear drag. Real racing involves more than just putting the foot on the floor and changing up the gears.