Really, all Ol’ Shel was interested in was winning races and making a pile of money while doing so. One of his first efforts was the Cobra, a hybrid of an AC Ace Roadster and Ford’s 260 C.I. V-8. This car was so successful that Ford helped engineer a bigger, faster Cobra called the 427 …
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The Department Of Past Issues
Welcome to The Department Of Past Issues. I started this because it combines both my love for writing and my affinity for automotive literature, primarily past issues of “Buff Books,” the magazines that were so very popular in the twentieth century, the means by which car news and culture was transmitted. Not instantaneously, like today, …
The Department Of Past Issues 