If you got it flaunt it!!
That was awesome! Thanks for posting. I always try to watch Jay Leno’s Garage to see the great autos that pass through his garage.
Such a badass ride.
I assumed the sell price for Carroll Shelby’s personal Shelby would be pretty high, but wow!
I thought about it but wrong color .
Cerakote.
$5.4 million for a little car which I would have to shoe horn myself to get inside the thing. At 6ft 2 and 3/4, and long legs, I would be sitting with my nose and eyes above the windshield. I need something bigger. Neat little car, though.
Carrol Shelby was 6’3".
Andy
Good to know, and maybe that Cobra offers more leg room. I haven’t had good luck with two seat roadster convertibles. Have a buddy who was an Army pilot with me and he collected Morris Garage MGB Roadsters (60’s vintage). I found them to be a tight fit when we’d take short road trips off base.
Yeah that’s a nice rarity there.
My dad had a 427 Shelby Cobra kit car from Superformance. Blue with white racing stripes. Although it was a replica, what a beautiful car. We got more waves and honks driving around town than I could shake a stick at. I never got a chance to drive it. He raffled it off in 2011ish. A guy I worked with won the car for the high price of a single $100 raffle ticket. Told him I’d buy it from him for double what he paid for it, he didn’t bite, lol.
A few decades back, I took out a 911 for a really fun test drive at a nearby dealership. Almost needed KY to get into the damn thing!
geezer john:) - 6’5”/275#
PS - When you ride in on a BMW K100 RS with Luftmeister turbo, they’re much more likely to let you take their car out for a fun time:). And FWIW - cars aren’t nearly as much fun as a good, fast MC!!!
For me as a teenager, it was a 1975 Yamaha Enduro DT400. Now I have a 2012 Triumph Tiger 800XC. I like dual sport bikes for this environment, and for longer trips. My longest ride on that 2012 Triumph was taking as much two lane blacktop as I could find and rode back to Fort Campbell, KY, then to the Smoky Mountains in Eastern TN. It was a 3.5 week trip. Pure relaxation and took my time.
I can see where you insure this for it being stolen or lost in a fire or something like that, but considering a 427 cobra is a scary little bitch that I’ll bite you hard, what would the driving insurance look like for this? Or when you have a car like this I assume you don’t drive it very much, or do you just basically self insure for accidents.
Granted there is a financial loss, but I assume if you own a Cobra like this you are part of that huge Cobre fan base, and if you wrecked one of these I assume you would not be very well thought of.
I saw that…there was a 69 Yenko COPO Camaro w/ the L88 power plant that came on soon after. Not near the same class of $$$ but still out of my range being they only made 69.