American Muscle Shelby Cobra 427 S/C 1:18 Scale Vehicle 1993 ERTL #7369

"Cobra," the name alone has come to mean the ultimate in street car performance. Voluptuous lines, race car handling, and heart-stopping acceleration are all part of the legend.
Carroll Shelby's dream was to build a car to beat the world's best on the racetrack.
The concept was simple, a big American V-8 engine in a small, lightweight sports car. The Cobra evolved from the British AC Ace sports car. Shelby added Ford's 260 (later 289) cubic inch V-8 and other refinements, and started winning. To answer the coming big-engined Corvettes, Shelby responded in 1965 with the 427-powered Cobra. To the delight of car enthusiasts ever since, 260, 289, and 427 cars were available to the public for street use as well as races.
The Cobra 427 was the ultimate evolution of the small car, big engine philosophy, Technologically unsophisticated, the Cobra was bred to do one thing, go fast. It did that with a vengeance. The 427 shared the basic lines of the earlier 289s but magnified the curvaceous body into a brutal, lethal-looking beast ready to pounce upon the unwary. In S/C trim, the 427 Cobra featured a single 4-barrel carb and produced far in excess of 425 horsepower. Suspension changes included larger brakes and front and rear anti-roll bars. Complete instrumentation kept the driver informed while the slightly muffled exhaust let the rest of the world know what lurked inside. The S/C (for Semi- Competition or Street/Competition) was at home on the street or on the track.
Capable of 0-60 mph in less than 5 seconds, 0-100 and back to 0 under 15, and a top speed of 165, there simply wasn't a car on the road, anywhere, that the Cobra couldn't beat. None before, and very few since, have equaled its performance. The Cobra 427 remains, nearly 30 years later, the car against which all other "supercars" are judged.

Steerable wheels - Opening doors and hood - Detailed chassis - Complete interior - Ages 8+

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