I haven't heard this routine in 25 years. It was my all-time favorite Bill Cobsy routine. Thank you for posting it. This is like Christmas to me :)

Carroll Shelby. The only person to win Lemans as a driver,manufacturer and team owner.

I listened to this record as a kid and I still love every second of it. Hearing it again really brings me back to my childhood.

A 200 mph Shelby Cobra? There's a suicide machine if I ever heard of one.

Race in Peace Carroll Shelby 1923-2012. He was 89 years old and had a true lust for life. He will be greatly missed. This year is the 50th anniversary of Shelby and many automotive events around the USA will pay tribute. Make sure to catch one!

I went to the Shelby Factory/Museum in Vegas and the tour guide recommended this video. It’s an absolute gem.

RIP Carroll Shelby

"HEY STEVE, YOU DON'T HAVE THIS ONE!!"

8:00 _"My scarf ... was limp."_ (Audience laughing, and then what sounds like a screaming laugh...)

"Hey, wanna drag? No sir, stay away from here!"

It was 1968 and my father bought this album which I played one night about 2 in the morning, when everyone else was in bed. Well, when this came on , I had no idea what to expect. I Iaughed so hard that the whole house was awake. They thought I'd lost my mind.

Bill Cosby was like "POWER!!!"

"The Speedometer starts at zero, goes all the way up to 200 MPH and under the 200 there's still more room, and the words, 'Oh wow'". LOL!

First time I've heard Cosby's routine. Love it!!! Love the car too. R & T did a Road Test (0-100mph-0) of the Cobra alongside a 'Vette and Porsche. Cobra won hands down though they had to piece together data on the Cobra because it kept breaking the test equipment. R.I.P. Carroll Shelby - You were a special person.

"LOOK OUT SNOOPY!" One of his best!

The Car Bill is talking about it the original Super Snake

Omg this is epic...i actually have this on vynle...i grew up listening to this. I'm a great teenager because of this man.

... two straight up classics, Bill Cosby and Carroll Shelby. I pray before I die I will have the chance to own one of Shelby's masterpeices. Rest in peace.

few people realize this is a true story. Two cobra 427s were built with automatic transmissions, one for Carroll himself and the other for bill cosby.

I didn't realize until reading the obits on Carroll Shelby that Bill Cosby's routine is amazingly true. And the first time I listened to this was when I bought the record in 1968. Just as funny today. RIP Mr Shelby.

I remember listening to this in 1968 at 2 AM and was laughing so hard I woke up the whole house. I couldn't breathe. Still one of the funniest monologues ..

Especially considering Cosby gave it back to Carroll and the next owner drove it into the Pacific.

R.I.P Steve Mcqueen

"...I'll drive by Steve McQueen's house and put em down... WWWWWWBBGGGGGGRRRRYWWWWW!!!!!" My father kept this cassette tape in the console of his 68 Mustang. When I was born, I grew up washing the car and going for rides in it. He would keep this cassette tape and some Gene Pitney tapes in the car. From the moment I could walk and talk, I knew who Gene Pitney & Bill Cosby were. I'm 29 years old now, and my father is 74 years old. I don't care about the current Bill Cosby rape allegations or whatever. This skit reminds me of my father and the time he gave us. I'd go to school in the early 90's and I'd be drawing these cars with these "PIPES, PIIIIIIPES COMIN OUT THE SIDE, 18, 19 DIAMETER, SONOMETER PIIIIIPES MAN" on all the drawings as a kid. None of the other kids in the class understood what I was carrying on about, not even the teacher. Not even my wife understands me with this, today. But I knew what I was talking about as a kid. And I still know today. Now I drive the Mustang. And I still could recite this skit word for word, because of my Dad.

"My Scarf was limp. My hair was straight up on my head. My Italian racing shoes had turned into sneakers. The fire extinguisher emptied itself ALL OVER ME..." ROFLMAO

Back when the Cos was the best. Us four kids (in '73, '74) giggled our butts off to this and then laughed even harder when we grew up and realized who (what) George Wallace was.😂 In the opinion of my siblings and I, the piece called 'gocarts' on Bill's 'Wonderfulness' lp was the best ever.

I first heard this in the late 60s and was playing it one night very late. I laughed so hard that I woke up the entire house! To this day one of the finest examples of standup comedy in my opinion. Its still as funny today-one of the highlights of my life, and it was a privilege listneing to it.

Whatever he may or may not have done with the Jesus Juice and the Lil Girls, Cosby was still funny as hell.

He tells an awesome story to Jay Leno and it's a true story.......

RIP Carrol Shelby, you left a legacy that will forever span generations.

Would've been funnier at 1:30 if he said, "going down the highway doing dual-hundred miles per hour."

Speed will not be the same fun without Carol Shelby here on earth. Carol you will be missed.

In 1993 Carroll Shelby tried to re-manufacture 43 "Original" 427 Cobras for sale. The California DMV tried to put him in jail for attempting the project. Cosby ain't kidding, this car is a lethal weapon.

Goodtimes laying on the floor listening to this on record with my family in the 80's! I laughed harder now than a kid!

I had this album as a kid and loved it. I was brought back to this video because they just sold the other car just like his which is now the only one like it in existence for over 5 million. The car he talks about in this routine was sold after he drove it one time.. it scared him that bad.. the man who bought it was actually killed in that car in an accident. This made the other car now teh only one left..

"...that I went along with the fire extinguisher." Took me about a decade to figure out what that meant. I was a little kid! "ambulance driver's too lazy to look for the body." George Wallace.

RIP Mr. Shelby!

One of my absolute favorite skits ever

0-60 mph in in under 4 The car was fast. In 1968 Road & Track achieved 0-60 mph times in the 3.8 second range, with the quarter-mile coming up in 11.86 seconds at 115 mph. Horsepower output was reputed to be about 800, but that number was provided by Shelby, and the editors at R&T had trouble publishing an undocumented number of that magnitude. After several road tests, and not wanting to offend ol’ Shel, the writers deemed the power to be “more than adequate.” The second Super Snake, CSX 3303, was sold to actor/comedian Bill Cosby in 1968. Shelby networked the Hollywood crowd as well as anyone, and chided the comic for his addiction to foreign sports cars. Cosby finally succumbed to the Texan’s needling and purchased the second SS. If there was a love affair with the car, it didn’t last long, as Cosby returned it within a month. The story goes that the car scared the daylights out of him, but generated good material for his nightclub routine. After Cosby, 3303 made its way to S & C Ford in San Francisco. The next owner was Tony Maxey, who was ticketed by the CHP for speeding, then lost control of the car and launched it off a cliff into Half Moon Bay. The car was demolished and Maxey died a few days later. Around the same period, Shelby sold CSX 3015 to Jimmy Webb, the noted song-writer, for a paultry $10,500. Webb was famous for writing a number of hits for Glen Campbell, including “Galveston,” “Wichita Lineman,” and “By the Time I Get to Phoenix.” Webb later told Shelby that he had turned down $1.2 million for the car during the collector car bubble of 1989-90. SEIZED BY THE IRS AND SOLD Unfortunately for Webb, his accounting skills didn’t match his songwriting skills and he wound up owing the government millions in back taxes. CSX 3015 was seized by the IRS and auctioned off in 1995 for $375,000. As mentioned earlier, the $5.5m paid at Barrett-Jackson for CSX 3015 represents a high water mark for any Shelby. Only the Daytona coupes come close.

Unbelievable stand-up comedy by Bill Cosby and an unbelievable legend, Carroll Shelby. Shelby also had a lot of input in the Ford GT 40's. The legendary Ford GT40. Love the way Bill talks about Steve McQueen here, LOL.

I Love this Routine! One of His Best!

Haha, I see that for (at least) three others, this was the main exposure we have had to Carroll Shelby besides seeing his masterworks in car-mags. "Dammit, gonna be dual!"

Yep, that's what I was talking about. Get yourself a 10" deck that plays both directions & changes sides by itself and, at 3 3/4 IPS, you can have 6.5 hours of music non-stop (except for the dead air at the end of each side). IF you want to risk it and don't mind lesser sound, Radio Shuck has 7" reels that play 3 hours & 14 minutes a side. Splice 2 of those together onto a 10" reel & with the same deck as above, you can get 13 hours of non-stop music, if the tape doesn't snap from the tension!!

"My scarf....was limp."

I read that Cosby's wrecked Snake was recovered and restored without the superchargers.

They took this cobra to the Salt Flats for a test drive. The driver got it to 190 mph and shut it down. He said it was only 1/2 throttle and it was starting to lift. It was fast, but aero dynamically unsound. It was that HICKIE that screwed things up.

This is epic... Life is but a dream.

Gota love him clean but funny as heck :)

Love this and Noah’s Ark. The Best.

Thank you for uploading!!

Shelby has the world record for most pants shat per capita due to engine noise

Jalopnik sent me here. Bill Cosby is really good at telling story's. I did not know that.

I had it on Vinyl, 8 Track, Cassette and CD and have ripped into my Media Player.

Because I still have this album, I know there is more to it, and left out. Such a shame. (no vote).

i just bought the 8 track on ebay. very interesting it was divided into part 1,2, & 3...

Bill Cosby was too scared to drive his and gave it back to Carroll Shelby.

Bill - Legend!

I've actually still got the album... no turntable, though...

Today, as a community we mourn the lose of a Legend / R.I.P Carroll Shelby. You will be deeply missed... SmokinStangs(dot)com - Mustang Forums & Community

R.I.P., Carroll Shelby.

Just bought a 2012 Mustang GT500 Shelby Cobra the day before he died. Carroll must have said, "Well, FrostyMug has one now, I can go". RIP Mr. Shelby and thank you.

Race In Peace Shelby

Funniest man ever!

read wikipedia about this album...

i have the 8 track and they had to divide this routine in whole into 3 parts BUT THE 8 TRACK IS SO INTERESTING!!!

At some point you almost expect him to rip out a Tim Taylor "arre arre ARRE!"

As history shows, CSX 3015 is one of two Super Snake Cobras built. The other being CSX 3303 built for Bill Cosby. CSX 3303 was a 1967 427 street car retained by Shelby American as a PR car and then made into a Super Snake for Bill Cosby. Cosby's record album titled '200 MPH' attests to the fact of why he only drove it once before returning it to Shelby American. Shelby American sold it to S and C Motors in San Francisco, who then sold it to their customer, Tony Maxey. Maxey destroyed himself an

Carroll Hall Shelby his name just came up today with a good friend. I didnt realise he passed away this year. you need to read "200 M.P.H." on wikipedia because it appears to be a true story. but there were some people who heard this and have no idea who Carroll Shelby is.

They freed the real

Dual everything

Seven people must not have been able to hear it, because there's no other explanation for not loving this video.

I'm totally loosing my marbles here, unpacking belongings from my storage unit. I just realized the only "album" in the lot is 200mph and it's been sitting here since yesterday when I removed it from the box. It was in my AZ storage unit. It's probably warped and it was a totally spontaneous eBay purchase many years ago. Wow.

RIP Carrol Shelby

This is only the second half of the piece. The full routine runs 23 minutes.

Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiipes!

you can commonly find bill cosby vinyl at places for hella cheap...i find them all the time...

Turns out he should've kept it.

I never bothered with 8-tracks. I have maybe 6 of them and most of the ones I actually bought, I eventually bought vinyl copies of. The others I have only because they were given to me, or I found them. These days, I mostly put everything on CD's, open reel tapes or SD cards (via MP3's), bvut I'd still prefer to have vinyl, cassette or open reel.

I think think this is his best routine.

@nelliemae2000 i would love the 8 track to see where they had to make the parts 1 and 2 ect...

I stopped buying their junk years ago, so I have no idea if they still sell tapes, but I'll bet you can find some online. In fact, Scotch also made 3 hour long 7" reels! I have a bunch of them that I bought used a few years asgo on eBay.

RIP Carrol!!!

ha ha ha ha . . . so good LoL

PURE DETROIT MUSCLE!!

Duel-wheels!

All Those who like the Volkswagens and the people who drive them say AYE!

I was disappointed. I thought this was a YTP of Bill Cosby doing the routine at a speed of x20.0

LOOK AT THEM PIPES!!!!

i got busted for restless driving in maryland...had a warrant for my arrest for 13 years ....got ; AQITTAL- THE TROOPER DIDNT SHOW UP....COST MY PAPPY $900.01

radio shack used to have reel to reel tapes...

wow, look on wikipedia. i was just having a conversation about him...

I remember listening to this as a kid on an LP. Seem to remember that it had the PG version on side A and the R version on B (I think he said DAMN at some point) I also remember listening to 8:15, 12:15. I may be getting them mixed up.

did`nt i ..

I want a car like that

PIPEEEESSSSS

they usually try to split album tracks in the middle, the 'obscure' stuff. Me I have plenty of 8 tracks < i get them repaired by mail order, and I use them. I am 38 years old.

Amazingly Funny stuff.

R.I.P

"open reel"? you mean reel to reel...

i want that car