The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.

Carroll Shelby
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  1. I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

  2. The Cobra is my personal favorite car. The original 289 Cobra is the car I respect the most. I like to drive the 289 better than the 427.

  3. In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang, ' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said,...

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