Vehicle Description
The car was commissioned in 2004 by Carroll Shelby International
Inc. and contracted with AC Motor Holdings Ltd. Jaguar produced
continuation cars to complete the missing serial number cars for
the fabled Lightweight E-Type, XK-SS and the D-Type. Aston Martin
followed suit by producing a limited number of DB-4 GTs. While
there have been hundreds of replicas and kit cars based on the
legendary 427 Cobra, only 13 cars (known as the 1000 series Shelby
AC Cobra) qualify as proper continuations of the famous 427 Cobras
from the mid 1960's: In 2004 Carroll Shelby International, Inc.
contracted with AC Motor Holdings Ltd. to construct 150 cars, at
the rate of 50 per year, using the original AC wooden bucks from
four decades earlier. The plan was to produce both 289 and 427
cars. After only 13 427 models were fabricated the manufacturing
ceased. CSX 1013 was the last car actually delivered. Perhaps it
was the excessive time to fashion the hand rolled aluminum bodies,
Shelby's impatience, or AC's financial collapse, that brought on
the sudden curtailment of the run. The real cause is speculation.
But the 13 cars produced have become the stuff of urban legend. The
car featured for sale was ordered by the late Paul Andrews who, at
the time, owned a Cobra collection valued at $10M and was himself a
licensed Shelby Cobra dealer. CSX 1007 was specially ordered to
duplicate his personal Brewster Green "427 Street' car. What makes
CSX 1007 even more unique is that it is only 2 of the 13 AC bodied
cars that were ordered as "427 Street" models. This fact has been
verified by Gary Patterson, the CEO of Shelby automobiles. Whereas
the 427 SC cars are famous for their leg cooking side pipes, roll
bar, hood scoop, no gas gauge or glove box, huge quick release
racing gas cap, and jack holds on all four corners, the "427
Street" was a lesser produced, more user friendly derivative. The
"427 Street" featured front and rear bumpers, smaller gas cap,
glove box, gas gauge.
