1964 Shelby Cobra

1964 AC Shelby American289 - Exceptional

​NO expense spared build on this car! Meticulously built as well. Ready to go now! Even has a title, great for export! 289 HiPo engine,425HP.  Huge info on this not enough room here! Dyno on file.

 Located in the Seattle area for viewing. Exceptional build and care..........

This 1964 AC Cobra was originally built as a show chassis for Shelby American in order to showcase the model's underpinnings. It was sent in 1965 to Cal Automotive, a Shelby subcontractor, where a Ford T-bucket body was installed. The car was then registered for street use, and later in the mid-1990s was fitted with a hand-formed aluminum Cobra body by Kimmins Custom Fabrication of Lake Havasu City, Arizona. After being raced in the late-1990s, it received a refresh and was assigned chassis number COB5998. The current owner acquired the car in 2011 and subsequently commissioned Cobra Automotive of Wallingford, Connecticut to perform a mechanical and cosmetic refurbishment, which included rebuilding the Weber-carbureted 289ci V8. A T-10 four-speed manual transmission was also installed along with a Tilton racing clutch, Hurst Super Shifter, Girling master cylinder, Penske racing shocks, and more. The car was invited to and participated in the 50th annual Cobra Reunion, held in Monterey, California in 2013. It is listed in the SAAC Registry and is titled as a 1964 Ford, though in race configuration, titled for the street! The car is now offered with refurbishment documentation, period photos, historical paperwork, and a clean Arizona title. Visited this last Friday 7/2, so clean  it's just amazing. 

The race-prepped 289ci V8 was rebuilt by Curt Vogt's Cobra Automotive in 2012 using a magnafluxed and micro polished crankshaft, a steel harmonic balancer, a mechanical lifter set with 0.012″cam-facing oiling holes, performance pistons and rings, new connecting rods, a Melling Racing oil pump, and bronze freeze plugs. The rotating assembly was balanced and the four Weber twin-throat carburetors were rebuilt. An aluminum radiator is fitted and features an electric cooling fan and an aluminum overflow tank. The engine was reportedly dyno tuned running 112 octane racing fuel and is mated to a T-10 four-speed manual gearbox with a Tilton 7 ¼” double-disc racing clutch and Jerico disc pack.

The SAAC Registry entry recounts the history of the chassis up to the point when it was fitted with Cobra bodywork. The car is titled in Arizona under chassis number C0B5998, which uses a zero as the second digit rather than the letter “O.”

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