COLIN COMER, respected authority on collector cars, is editor-at-large for Sports Car Market and American Car Collector magazines and a contributing editor for Road & Track magazine. Colin also regularly appears in such diverse publications as the New York Times, Business Week, USA Today, among others. Comer is the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed books Million-Dollar Muscle Cars, The Complete Book of Shelby Automobiles, and Shelby Cobra Fifty Years. When not writing about cars, Colin is an avid vintage racer and pilot. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with wife Cana, daughter Remington, and a herd of dogs. Official Website: www.colincomer.com Early in his career, CARROLL SHELBY's accomplishments as a race car driver included breaking land-speed records at Bonneville and winning Le Mans in 1959 with teammate Roy Salvadori. As a team manager, Carroll was part of the FIA World Grand Touring Championship as well as the Ford GT victories at Le Mans. When his health forced him to give up racing in 1960, Carroll turned his attention to design. The result is what is considered to be perhaps the greatest sports car and one of the fastest road cars ever constructed: the Shelby Cobra. Even today, Ford's premier Mustang carries the Shelby name and iconic snake logo.
"Author Colin Comer freely admits that he was captivated by the
legend of the Shelby Cobra at a young age and remains so. As a
Cobra owner, restorer and racer, he brings to his book insider
knowledge, not only talking the talk but also walking the walk.
Beautifully laid out with a plethora of nicely reproduced photos."
- Vintage Motorsport
"Carroll Shelby died on May 10, 2012, a palpable loss to the
automotive community. A car like his Cobra will never be repeated.
If you hanker to know more about the machine that emanated a
ground-shaking rumble from its side-pipes, and do not already own
Comer's earlier Shelby Cobra: 50 Years, you cannot do better than
this superb book." - Petrolicious
"In this book, Shelby Cobra - The snake that conquered the world
Colin Comer takes us on the trail of Carroll Shelby's wild yet
simple idea of putting gargantuan power into a relatively light
car. This book was first published in 2011 under the title Cobra
Fifty Years, so many fans out there will be familiar with it, but
this is the Collectors Edition with updated material. For first
timers, be assured that the $75.00 price befits a glossy 272-page
book measuring 9.75" x 12" and packed with almost 400 superbly
produced photographs (period and modern). In fact, if this was
merely a picture book, I'd probably still say it was worth every
cent. This may be the only Cobra book you'll ever need to own, and
the fact that the late Carroll Shelby himself penned the Foreword
to the 2011 edition would suggest this is the definitive work on
this hallowed beast." - RACER.com
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