AC Cobras had an extensive career as a racing driver. Shelby wanted it to be a "Corvette club" and less than 500 pounds in the vicinity of the Chevrolet Corvette, the car just that easy. The Cobra was perhaps too successful as a performance car and as a contribution to the national speed limits in Great Britain. An AC Cobra Coupe was calculated done 185 hours miles on the M1 in 1964, driven by Jack Sears and Peter Bolton during shakedown tests prior to the race 24 Hours of Le Mans this year. However, government officials cited the increasing accident rate of death in the early 1960s that the main motivation, with the exploits of the AC Cars team just of the risk.
CA also produced the AC Frua to 1973. The AC Frua was built on a chassis stretched Cobra 427 MK III coil spring steel body with a very sharp actually developed and built by Pietro Frua. With the disappearance of Frua, AC went on building fewer cars and eventually went bankrupt in the 1970s. Tools of the company and possibly the right to use the name, have been approved by Autocraft, a Cobra replica car parts dealers and manufacturers by Brian Angliss possession.
