The Most Expensive Cobra Ever Sold!
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The
most expensive Cobra to be recently sold and to break the American record for
highest price of any car sold at auction, was a 1966 Shelby Cobra "Super
Snake". Covered with metallic blue paint and still with perfect body work,
the Shelby Cobra was sold for a whopping 5.5 million dollars.
This car has been placed in the record books after its hefty sale price at theBarrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction.
At 800 horse power with twin superchargers, the car was far ahead of its time when it was first made. Many older cars, classics and collectible Used
Fords such as Mustangs and GTs have been reportedly sold for
thousands and even millions of dollars, but this 1966 model reached the highest price tag ever for an American
muscle car at auction.
The former owner of the car was car engineer and racing veteran Carroll Shelby,84, who created the 1966 Shelby Cobra in the 60s from different types of Ford
engines and a British sports car chassis. He not only built this magnificent
machine, but drove it for a number of years. He describes it as a 'special
car', which statistically and technologically, it is. This uniqueness was
without doubt one of the major factors in the ultimate auction price tag.
Modern super cars are generally expected to reach 60mph in somewhere between
three to four seconds. Over forty years ago, the 'Super Snake' would push its
speed to 60 in just over three seconds, making it a powerful machine that was
far ahead of its time. Shelby states "I wanted it to be the fastest,
meanest car on the road," and that "forty years later, it will still
kick the tail of just about anything in the world." With an 800
horse power V8 with twin Paxton superchargers and a three speed automatic
transmission, most modern day road cars have little chance of keeping up,
despite dramatic technical advances in automotive engineering.
This is possibly one of the most significant and important automobiles ever put
up for auction, representing a piece of automotive history that has been not only
built but driven by a highly regarded racing expert. Although a unique car, it
is known that Shelby built a similar Twin Paxton enhanced 427 Cobra for his
close friend, comedian Bill Cosby. The model that Bill Cosby owned was pretty
much the same in power and build, but his car was unfortunately eventually
wrecked, leaving Shelby's original as the sole surviving example.
The car sold after a long bidding war between two car collectors, both of whom
were hoping to take the car home as their own. This was a huge price tag for
winning bidder Ron Pratt of the suburban area of Chandler. Evidently a serious
automobile enthusiast Pratt, in a previous year, paid nearly four and a half
million dollars for a Futureliner, one of twelve futuristic buses that were used
for shows in the 1940s and 1950s by manufacturer General Motors.
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