AC Cobra 4.7 review
AC Cobra 4.7 Road Test
Test date 12 November 1965
Price as tested £2,738
For Straight line performance, incredible looks
Against Wet-weather practicality and handling manners
In 1962 Carroll Shelby suggested to AC that its Ace sports car might benefit from American Ford V8 power. At the time the supply of 2.0-litre Bristol engines was drying up, and the Zephyr 6 motor used in the Ace 2.6 wasn’t really powerful enough, so the idea was tried and became an immediate hit.
Body-chassis were shipped to California for the engines to be installed, and soon all AC production was turned over to Cobras. Such was the demand from the home market that, at intervals, small batches of right-hand-drive models were made; they were snapped up rapidly. A legend was born.
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