Bill Cosby talks about a Shelby Cobra

[Embassy]

Not sure if this has been posted before or not. It was on a local auto forum:

http://video.tinypic.com/player.php?v=4do3z9i (http://video.tinypic.com/player.php?v=4do3z9i)

[bob6364]

I have heard that one years ago...Bills funny...

[Bluerauder]

[COLOR=blue]Not sure if this has been posted before or not. It was on a local auto forum
Thanks for posting that .... I really enjoyed it. Bill Cosby is still one of the funniest men alive. He even had Jay Leno rolling during that description of his first ride in the Cobra.

We had a teacher in my high school that got one (about 1967). Word around school was that he'd cruise the local shopping centers trolling for high school "chicks". He thought he was the coolest thing around. :rolleyes: General concensus was that he was a dork and the car wouldn't help him at all. :rofl: Wonder if he still has it? ;)

[justbob]

That was some funny stuff right there!

[Krytin]

I used to have (but I don't anymore) the original routine on vinyl - "200 MPH" was the name of the album. Very funny then as now!
Cosby is the best!

http://www.rhapsody.com/player?type=undefined&id=tra.7041084&remote=undefined&page=undefined&pageregion=undefined&guid=undefined&from=undefined&__pcode=

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[Windsor58]

bob6364 - something about your signature bugs me...

[TAKEDOWN]

Bill Cosby sure hasn't lost his funny bone!

[PhastPhil]

As Krytin mentioned, Bill Cosby had an album called 200 mph on which he tells about getting his Cobra. Really funny stuff. Now I have to see if I still have that record. I'd bet it is at my parents house.

[Vortex]

When I was a kid we had the Cosby comedy albums and listened to them all the time. You should hear the one about the go kart racing.

[RoyLPita]

I used to have (but I don't anymore) the original routine on vinyl - "200 MPH" was the name of the album. Very funny then as now!
Cosby is the best!

http://www.rhapsody.com/player?type=undefined&id=tra.7041084&remote=undefined&page=undefined&pageregion=undefined&guid=undefined&from=undefined&__pcode=

http://www.rhapsody.com/player?type=undefined&id=tra.7041084&remote=undefined&page=undefined&pageregion=undefined&guid=undefined&from=undefined&__pcode=

Thanx for the link. :up:

[mrjones]

You know the story about that car right? Shelby built 2 of those twin-supercharged cars: One for Cosby, and one for himself. Cosby was scared by his and sold it. They guy who bought it killed himself in it. Shelby sold his at Barrett-Jackson a couple of years ago for around $6M. I was there when it sold, and stood in front of it and took pictures from 3 feet away.

[Motorhead350]

Thanks for the laughs. I needed them.

I remember hearing this stuff on Sirius a few years ago... :)

[MrBluGruv]

lol, if we could all be so lucky to experience driving a twin-supercharged cobra at least once in our lives...

[dohc324ci]

Cosby is great....LOL

[Embassy]

Super Snake
Shelby Motors built 22 427 competition roadsters. In 1965, one was selected and converted into a special model called the 427 "Cobra to End All Cobras." The first one of these (number CSX3015) was originally part of a European promotional tour before its conversion. This conversion called for making the original racing model street legal with mufflers, a windshield and bumpers amongst other modifications. But some things were not modified, including the racing rear end, brakes and headers. The most notable modification is the addition of Twin Paxton Superchargers. This gave the car an alleged 800 brake horsepower (bhp) and 462 Ft pounds of torque at an astounding low of 3000 rpm. Officially rated at 0-to-60 at 4.5 seconds, legend and lore have it as doing that in a little over 3 seconds as one must lay off the throttle heavily just to get traction off the line.

Another non-competition 427 roadster, CSX3303, was converted and given to Shelby's close friend, Bill Cosby. Cosby attempted to drive the super-fast Cobra, but had issues with keeping it under control. This was humorously documented in Cosby's album titled "Bill Cosby, 200 M.P.H." Cosby gave the car back to Shelby, who then shipped it out to one of their dealers in San Francisco, S&C Ford on Van Ness Avenue. S&C Ford then sold it to customer Tony Maxey. Maxey, suffering the same issues as Cosby did with the car, lost control and drove it off of a cliff, landing in the Pacific Ocean waters. It is to be noted that Maxey's accident was largely speculated as suicide. It was eventually recovered and the wreckage was bought by Brian Angliss of AC/Autokraft. Since CSX3303 was so badly damaged in the Maxey accident, it is doubtful that much of the original car will surface in the restored version.

Shelby's original model, CSX3015, was kept by Carroll Shelby himself over the years as a personal car, sometimes entering it into local races like the Turismos Visitadores Cannonball-Run race in Nevada, where he was "waking [up] whole towns, blowing out windows, throwing belts and catching fire a couple of times, but finishing." CSX3015 was auctioned off on 22 January 2007 at the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event in Scottsdale, Arizona for $5 million plus commission (a record for Cobras, as well as for a Barrett-Jackson sell price)


From Wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Cobra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Cobra)

[LOWBUCKMM]

i would love to see that cobra in person.