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AC Cobra

In October of 1961, an American racing driver named Carroll Shelby[?] approached AC Cars wanting to fit a 4.2 liter V8 Ford engine into the AC Ace[?] chassis. AC Cars agreed and in March 1962, the first original Cobra was built. It was the first super-fast car. Not long after, they fitted a 4.7-litre engine, which boosted power from 165 to approximately 200 horsepower and gave it a new top speed of 140 miles per hour. AC Cars stopped producing Cobras in 1968, but Brian Angliss started producing them again in 1983.



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