If you ever get a chance to listen to Bill Cosby’s album “200 MPH”
you’ll hear the amazing story of how Coz bumped into Carroll Shelby at the
supermarket and got reprimanded for driving fast foreign sports cars. Shel told
Coz that he was going to build Cobras for himself and Coz that would have
dual-everything - dual roll bars, dual superchargers, dual horsepower, dual
shifters, dual steering wheels, dual EVERYTHING!. (The last few “dual” items was
Cosby’s schtick)
After months of anticipation and the purchase of Italian
racing shoes and driving gloves, the Cobra arrives! And then, well... it might
be on the internet or on a CD on eBay, but get it and get the rest of a very
funny, semi-true story of Bill’s encounter with a supercharged 427
Cobra.
The story is exaggerated, but the cars were real. Shelby built 2,
427 Cobras that were double supercharged BEASTS! . It looks like a regular
Cobra, except for the extra big hood scoop. Packing 800 hp (according to Shelby,
and he wouldn’t exaggerate, would he?) and backed with a Ford T6 3-speed
automatic, the Coz and Shel Cobras could run 0-to-60 in just 3.8 seconds and the
quarter-mile in 11.9 seconds @116 mph.
Also, the Coz and Shel Cobras were
the last 2 Cobra officially built by Shelby way back when, before production was
recently started again.
