427 race results / positions

[NC427]

Being aware that the 427 was not as succesful in racing as the 289 and Daytona I am still wondering where to find some sort of listing about races the 427 participated during the 60s with related results.

Did find almost no information in the books I have on my shelf and even the Registry does only state one page.

Can anyone help?

Thanks
Carsten

[289ACE]

Carsten,
Try this site
http://www.racingsportscars.com/cars.html
and go to the advanced search at the bottom of the page.
Enter Shelby as the Make and Cobra as the Type and you will receive many pages of Cobra race results, but you will need to sort through which are the 427s. You can also use A.C as the make and will get a few more CSX3*** cars that were not shown on the Shelby pages. Probably not all inclusive, but it is a start if you have the patience to go through the pages.
Jay

[cobraviper_99]

Originally Posted by NC427

Being aware that the 427 was not as succesful in racing as the 289 and Daytona I am still wondering where to find some sort of listing about races the 427 participated during the 60s with related results.

Did find almost no information in the books I have on my shelf and even the Registry does only state one page.

Can anyone help?

Thanks
Carsten

The 427 Cobra never reached the international successes of the other Shelby programs but it still won many races in the U.S., winning the SCCA A/Production national championship from 1966 to 1969. They continued to race and win in domestic events into the early 1980's.

[Michael C Henry]

As I understand the 427 engine was succesfull in NASCAR and the 427 Cobra was a "what if" hot rodders dream. When the 427 cars started arriving at the shop emphasis was on the GT40's and the concern was to make something sellable out of these cars. They only got as high as 37 cars before the FIA authorities arrived to check their production to comply with homoligation rules (100 either built or a substantial point of being built) to qualify as "Manufactered" rule . They were told they could still compete as" "Prototype" . Race car technology had gone past the 427 Cobra. Thus the 427 SC Cobra was never ( oh what is the word?) by a Ford or Shelby team but was used by privateers. The emphasis was on the European FIA courses with their long straight aways where top speed was so important. The short coarses were its best showing, but even then when they would blast away from the compition in the short straightaways, then they would be overtaken in the corners. These stories are from my memories of reading the "Turd" article and a strory about John Morton in the now defunct Cobra magazine.

[NC427]

Thanks for the replys - Interesting and confirming what I thought........Still am very thankful for the valuable information you gave!

regards
Carsten