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23-01-2007, 08:14 AM
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Shelby's personal Cobra pulls record price
January 22, 2007 Scottsdale, Arizona - A 600kW Shelby Cobra, once the personal car of the racing veteran who developed the iconic vehicle, has sold for $5.5-million at auction here. The sale of the 1966 Shelby Cobra "Super Snake" brought a packed house to its feet on Saturday at the 36th Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction after a pair of bidders drove the price up. Carroll Shelby, 84, who created the Cobra in the 1960's using Ford engines and British sports-car chassis, said he built the Super Snake - with two superchargers on a 427 cubic inch V8 - and drove it for years Shelby created the Cobra using Ford engines and British sports-car chassis . "It's a special car. It would do just over three seconds to 60 (mph) 40 years ago," Shelby told the crowd before the sale. "I killed a buzzard with it - nasty, nasty." An identical car was built for American comedian Bill Cosby but it was destroyed in an accident while being driven by another owner, according to the Barrett-Jackson website. Steve Davis, Barrett-Jackson's president, said $5.5-million was not an overall world record price for a car - others had sold at auction for more than $11-million - (about R78-million) - but it was a record for an American car. The winning bidder was car collector Ron Pratt who in 2006 paid $4.32-million for the Futureliner, one of 12 futuristic buses used for shows in the 1940's and 1950's 50s by General Motors. - Sapa-AP |
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23-01-2007, 08:17 AM
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Pics!!!
edit: freakish timing...thats exactly the same as my 1:18 version on my desk...LOL Bonnet scoop is a bit bigger on that one though.
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23-01-2007, 08:18 AM
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23-01-2007, 09:30 AM
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More dollars than sense IMO...
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23-01-2007, 10:02 AM
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The 'Stihl' Man
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My die cast is the same as that one, minus the superchargers though...doh!
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23-01-2007, 10:05 AM
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Repost. The first one is on the next page further down the list from yesterday, Cobra goes for $7 million, wasnt as many pics though. Id link it but I dont know how, maybe the mods can do it.
I cant believe the power! 800hp in a cobra. Would be scary (read fun) to drive. You'd have to be gentle on the throttle or you'd fry the tyres everytime you took off.
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23-01-2007, 01:11 PM
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Im love Cobra's.....they are the ultimate shaped sport car and tickle me in a way that HOGT's do for others...a
I would love to build one one day with a 5.8 inj, 5 speed, jag diff, blue with white centre stripes and the biggest chrome side pipes I can find....and even then I will still drool at this 800hp original m-ther f__ker... |
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23-01-2007, 03:21 PM
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I don't think they would care, considering that they have that many dollars
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23-01-2007, 06:38 PM
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WOW, what a car.
Auto trans, interesting  : I'm pretty sure Shelby named the 2 cars "DragonSnake" if my memory serves me well. This is the car Bill Cosby is talking about in his famous "200MPH" recording. |
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66 Shelby Cobra sells for $5.5 Million
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