The Shelby Cobra stands out as an American icon, perhaps the greatest muscle car and most recognizable car in history. Carroll Shelby, a former race car driver, and automotive designer was hired by the Ford Motor Co. to develop a high-performance racer able to compete with the dominant Italian race team of Ferrari. The Americans' four consecutive victories at the prestigious Le Mans 24-hour race between 1966-69, in Ford GT40s, is the stuff of legend.
Driven by a powerful spring motor, the UGears Drift Cobra racing car has the fastest team of horses under the hood of any known mechanical wooden model. The model is wound by means of a ratchet knob under the chassis. Before winding up your Cobra model, move the air filter that protrudes from the hood toward the windshield, and flip the switch in front of the passenger-side seat into the Lock position. Now twist the ratchet underneath the car's body. And after 6 or 6.5 turns of the knob, the spring is fully loaded, and vroom! your racer is ready to roar!
This wooden car's moving parts include turnable front wheels, doors that open, and a hood and trunk that can be raised. Instead of a rubber band motor we've used a powerful spring mechanism to provide the “muscle” in this racer and extend the model's usable life. The ratchet mechanism means you don't have to hold the knob the entire time you're winding the model, potential energy is stored with each twist, without slippage, until the strong internal spring is fully loaded.
Like all other UGears kits, the Drift Cobra comes with step-by-step, full-color, truly easy to follow instructions in 11 languages (English, German, Ukrainian, French, Polish, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Italian, Chinese and Korean) and requires neither glue nor special tools to be assembled into a fully functional mean machine.
370 pieces, 10.1 x 8.3 x 4.5 inches when finished. Assembly time: ~9 hours. Recommended age: 14+
Ideal Christmas, birthday, or holiday gift for an engineer, hobbyist, or auto enthusiast. Great for a STEAM related gift too!