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Shelby has also begun building carbon fiber-bodied cars to make the featherweight Cobra that much lighter.
Source: Shelby American


Across the country in Las Vegas, Shelby American has been carrying the torch for Ford’s other big 1960s performance legend. Looking to head off the kit car market in the 1980s, Carroll Shelby restarted production on his iconic Cobra roadster, and unlike the replicas, these modern Cobras come with an authentic Shelby “CSX” chassis number, just like the original 1960s models. Shelby offers the cars in both turn-key and kit form, but these Cobras are anything but your standard run-of-the-mill kit cars.

The company’s recent anniversary models are near-perfect replicas of Shelby’s most important 1960s Cobras, right down to the black-faced Stewart-Warner gauges. Most models are fiberglass-bodied, but Shelby still offers cars with the period-correct aluminum bodies, too. Intent on bringing the Cobra into the 21st century, Shelby has also begun building carbon fiber-bodied cars to make the featherweight Cobra that much lighter.