Shelby Cobra Fifty Years

Colin Comer (River Hills, WI), respected authority on collector cars, regularly appears in such diverse publications as Sports Car Market and Corvette Market magazines, the New York Times, Business Week, USA Today, and other publications. Comer is author of the best-selling books The Complete Book of Shelby Automobiles and Million-Dollar Muscle Cars.

"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" "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" "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" "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