1964 Shelby 427 Prototype Factory Team Cobra - CSX2196, Ken Miles
Shelby American Factory Team Car
Original Aluminum 427 Side-Oiler Engine With Larger Cylinder
Sleeves Due To The Aluminum Casting, Making It A 390 CI Engine
Original Lightweight Ford Experimental All-Aluminum
Numbers-Matching 427/390 Side-Oiler Engine, The Actual Motor First
Installed In CSX2286 Daytona Coupe Before Being Transferred To
CSX2196
Original Massive 58mm Weber Carburetors; Only 15 Sets Ever
Produced
Engine Built In Period By Ford's Renowned Special Engine Builder,
Mose Nowland
Originally Built As A 289-Style Roadster With A 427 Engine And
Raced As A Factory Shelby American Team Car At Sebring
After Sebring, Shelby American Stripped The Chassis To Its Frame
Rails And A-Arms Before Lengthening It By 3 Inches
Chassis Converted Into A Daytona Coupe-Style Chassis With Backbone
Bracing, Triangulation, And Extensive Lightweighting, Creating An
Exceptionally Rigid And Lightweight Platform
One-Off Super-Lightweight Aerodynamic Alloy Body With A Flip-Up
Front Clip Like The Daytona Coupe, Earning The Nickname "The
Flip-Top Cobra," As Confirmed By Pete Brock
Specifically Built To Defeat The Corvette Grand Sports At The
Nassau, Bahamas Races
Established An 8-Second Lead On Lap One At Nassau, Outperforming
The Corvette Grand Sports, Ford GT40s, Ferrari 275 Comp Speciales,
And Ferrari 250 LMs
No-Expense-Spared, Four-Year, Complete Ground-Up Restoration By
Legendary Motorcar Using Original Or NOS Components To Perfect 1964
Nassau Specifications
Original, Virtually Impossible-To-Find NOS Goodyear Blue Streak
Stock Car Special Tires
Daytona Coupe-Style Underside Belly Pans For Improved
Aerodynamics
Other Than The Daytona Coupes, This Car Featured The Most Advanced
Aerodynamics Of Any Cobra
Weighs Approximately 1,800 Lbs With More Than 500 HP, Creating An
Unheard-Of Power-To-Weight Ratio For Its Time
Fundamentally A Daytona Coupe Chassis With A One-Off
Super-Lightweight Roadster Body And Prototype Lightweight Engine,
Designed And Built By Ken Miles Without The Constraints Of
Production
Shown On The Lawn At The Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance
Premiere Award At The SAAC National Convention
First In Class At The Amelia Island Concours D'Elegance
"It's The Ultimate Cobra" - Peter Miles
Pete Brock Described It As "...The Most Sophisticated Engineering
Car That I Think Ever Was Done Within The Shelby Operation"
Internal Ford Paperwork Shows That Ford Representatives Travelled
To The Bahamas To Oversee The GT40 Program. After Witnessing The
Success Of This Prototype 427 Cobra, Ford Recognized That The GT40
Would Need 427 Power If It Was Going To Win At Le Mans
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