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1,500 Ft-Lb Torque Electric Powered Shelby Cobra

• Maursault 5y ago
  Two questions I have: 1) What makes it a Shelby? 2) How can it be legal? (as it appears to be designed to decapitate in case of accident)
  • unbanned 5y ago
    1) The name 2) Personal vehicle modified (presumably) with acceptance of insurance company
  • theluketaylor 5y ago
    Superformance has a license from Carroll Shelby (from when he was alive) to build replicas of the original Shelby Cobra. They are the only replica maker I'm aware of with a real license to call their car a "Shelby Cobra". All superformance cars are sold without an engine or gearbox, so someone decided to put a tesla motor in rather than the more traditional Ford 351. Getting vehicles registered in most US states is shockingly easy, and even if you live in a tougher state it's easy to register in another (for example, a huge number of supercars in LA are registered in Montana to avoid taxes and emissions tests). Cobras are deathtraps, but that's a big part of why people still want one 60 years later.
• neeeeees 5y ago
  How do you turn this on?