Shelby Cobra

Caroll Shelby created one of the most distinctive American cars, the Shelby Cobra, in the mid-60s. Which was nothing more than a brutalized version of the English AC Ace that had a Ford V8 instead of a six-row block. The originals were already collector cars at quite impossible prices, but just as Shelby gathered the components for the car at the time, so now Superformance has done so, in a slightly more modern form.

The Superformance also adds a push-button start, radio and air conditioning, and a canvas roof to the car. But not an engine. We can say that this is solved by the customer, but it is much more elegant to serve it in such a way that it definitely includes a block that the customer wants. Here’s the Roush’s 427-cubic-inch (7-liter) V8 engine with 510 horsepower and 700 Nm of torque.

The body is pulled onto a tubular frame, and large rims are placed underneath and no savings are made with aerodynamic accessories. Under the Superformance MKIII-R, there are six-piston brakes at the front and one-piston brakes at the rear, and independent chassis on both axles, with Bilstein stops and springs. There are retro-shell leather-stitched clamshell seats indoors and rich instrumentation behind the three-spoke sports steering wheel. All this - without an engine - for almost 25 million forints.

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