Imagine for a second that Carroll Shelby hadn’t stepped away from Dodge ... been the death knell for the Volkswagen GTI in North America?

The AC Shelby ... Shelby America Inc. in Venice, California, handled the rest of the mechanical side of production. In total, 998 AC Shelby Cobras were built (including both track and road models ...

The company sells its vehicles through a proprietary dealer network in North America and Europe. Carroll Shelby International, Inc. was founded in 1962 and is based in Gardena, California.

In the very early sixties, Carroll Shelby ... The Corvette was America’s sportscar, and Chevrolet wasn’t going to dig its grave by supporting a direct competitor for it. Shelby then ...

And as Cobras go, few are more important than the model auctioned by RM Sotheby’s at the Monterey sale – known as CSX 2000, it’s the very first Cobra built by the late Carroll Shelby himself.