Product Description
This book is out-of-print and no longer available. We suggest ordering the updated and revised edition of this book titled “Shelby Cobra: The Snake That Conquered The World”
2011 International Automotive Media Bronze Award Winner Named the “Greatest Car Book of All Time” by Esquire Shelby Cobra Fifty Years is Comer’s third book and proves what we all knew: it was worth the wait! Shelby Cobra Fifty Years is not only a complete history and celebration of Shelby’s Cobra, but also about the people that made it great and have kept the legend alive. From Carroll Shelby’s start in sports car racing, to his dream of building a world-class sports car, to the impact the Cobra had on the motoring world that is stronger than ever today, this book has it all. Consider it a stack of yearbooks from your favorite All-American’s career. This is a Cobra book like no other, a fresh approach from a writer who knows the cars like no other. As always, Comer delivers unbelievable and formerly unseen archival photos, combined with stunning contemporary shots that are worth the price of admission alone. As Carroll Shelby says in his foreword, “they got the right guy to write this book when they picked Colin.” We couldn’t have said it better ourselves!
Editorial Review – :
“… this is the last Cobra book you will need…until Comer writes the next one.”
Just when you thought you had read every book you needed to read about Cobras, along comes a must-have tome. While this won’t be the last book written on these cars, it is probably the last one that needs to be written. It is that good. Shelby Cobra Fifty Years is well researched, well written and it contains an excellent variety of photos—both historical as well as current—that provide an insightful look at the Cobra mystique. Every picture is intelligently captioned and almost all of them contain the cars’ serial number. We especially like that. This is the last Cobra book you will need…until Comer writes the next one.
– From the Shelby American Automobile Club’s magazine, The Shelby American
Editorial Review – :
“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. It’s a read that will make you feel a part of the inner circle, even if you’ve only dreamed of owning a Cobra but never have. Comer does not miss the rich competition history and I especially enjoyed the chapter on “Costly Cobra Trinkets,” cover the promotional items that are so collectible today. Beautifully laid out with a plethora of nicely reproduced photos. Shelby Cobra Fifty Years is a masterful tribute to the marque.
– Vintage Motorsport
Editorial Review – :
“Imagine your favorite magazine…”
—thought provoking, definitive, technical, personal, and stylish—was actually a coffee-table book. That’s how Colin Comer’s insightful new Shelby Cobra history reads— cozy, friendly, and fun, but weighty. A polymath racer, writer, dealer, and muscle car guru, Comer is too young to have been there in the day, but he’s met just about everyone who was, and his obsessive attention to detail, leavened by sturdy, witty prose, make this a volume we expect to reference for a long time.
– Automobile Magazine
Editorial Review – :
“Several books have been written about Carroll Shelby, but…
if we had to narrow it down to just one, it would be Colin Comer’s Shelby Cobra Fifty Years. Although Comer admits he was born too late to live through the early Shelby years, his passion for the Texan and his merry band of hot-rodders is reflected in this beautifully written book, which has many classic shots from Shelby’s archives. And don’t miss the interview with ace mechanic Phil Remington, who’s still going strong in his 90s.
– ROAD & TRACK
Editorial Review – :
“Anyone looking for abundant photos, and an easy read, will want “Shelby Cobra Fifty Years,”
which focuses solely on the two-seat sports car. The prose is gee-whiz reverential. (In fact, the best reading is found in the sidebars: interviews with various Cobra collectors and profiles of people like Phil Remington and Pete Brock, indispensable figures in the creation of Shelby’s cars.) The eye candy matters here: abundant photos that capture the racing history and mechanical details. For a model builder like me, the book answers almost every question about what goes where and how it is supposed to look. If you’re lucky enough (and rich enough) to find a real Cobra to restore, you can get a good head start from Mr. Comer’s book.
– The New York Times
Editorial Review – :
“I will cut to the chase and give you the Official Ringing Endorsement:
That book is the best car book I’ve read this year. It’s wonderfully assembled and passionately written, and it takes a refreshingly new angle on a much-discussed subject. Buy it. (Disclosure: I receive no financial benefit from sales of this book.) In addition to documenting the history and personalities behind one of America’s most wonderful automobiles, it’s just plain fun to flip through.
– Autos.msn.com
Editorial Review – :
“THE GREATEST CAR BOOK OF ALL TIME.”
Colin Comer’s Shelby Cobra: Fifty Years (Motorbooks, $40) is a milestone, an evocative love letter to the only American hot rod with a household name. Comer, a Shelby collector and racer, packs this gorgeous tome with illuminating no-fking-way interviews and miles-deep photography that tells the sweat-and-blood stories of the car’s legend. Cobra mastermind Carrolll Shelby died in May, and his cars regularly trade hands for millions. Save having the man’s ghost school you over drinks, it gets no better than this.
-ESQUIRE
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