The 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake
was a race car modified for street use. Its 800-horsepower V-8 links
to a three-speed automatic transmission.
"When I built this dual
supercharged 427 Cobra in 1966, I wanted it to be the fastest,
meanest car on the road," performance-car builder Carroll Shelby
said on the Barrett-Jackson Web site. "Forty years later, it
will still kick the tail of just about anything in the world. It's
the fastest street legal Cobra I've ever owned." Shelby pegged
the car's 0-60-mph time at just over three seconds.
The Super Snake stood out even among
the Cobras Shelby built from 1962-1968. Cobras combined Ford V-8
engines and lightweight British AC Ace bodies to create some of the
wildest and most sought-after American cars ever.
To the Cobra's top-line 427-cubic-inch
V-8 Shelby added two Paxton superchargers, giving the Super Snake
virtually double the horsepower of a production 427 Cobra. The
$5.5-million car started life as one of 23 Cobra competition
roadsters and was made legal for the street with the addition of
mufflers, bumpers, and other necessities.
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