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The SHELBY AMERICAN
Summer 2016 17
CHRISTMAS IS AROUND THE CORNER, GRAMPS
PAGING... DR. TIMOTHY LEARY
Here’s the ultimate Christmas present
for your grandkids. It’s a serious
miniature hand-built Cobra con-
structed on a jig-built steel box section
chassis with four-wheel independent
suspension made with aluminum
front hubs and stub axles, steel real
hubs and rubber donut half-shafts.
The car has vented disc brakes with
dual-piston Brembo calipers, a hy-
draulic two-part master cylinder and
rack-and-pinion steering. Power is by
a single-cylinder 110cc air-cooled four-
stroke engine backed by a three-speed
semi-auto gear box and a chain-drive
capable of 80 mph (although you’d
never get us to confirm that by per-
sonal experience). Did we leave any-
thing out? Oh yeah, the cost: $17,500
in the color of your choice. If that does-
n’t chase you away, more details are
available from :
www.autosportoriginals.com
limited slip rear. It has 10-inch billet
aluminum wheels and a 12-volt elec-
trical system with electric start. The
body is composite glass reinforced
plastic. Curb weight is 214 lbs. The
standard model is claimed in the web-
site to be able to top 44 mph and
owner-tuned versions are evidently
This photo was used in an Iconoc
Parts ad in a recent issue of
Grassroots Motorsports
. We’ll
admit we had to look at it for a
while before we realized it was, in
fact, a Cobra. It was a replica, of
course, and it’s one of the reasons
why we like replicas so much – be-
cause you would never see an
original Cobra look like this un-
less... you were dropping acid.