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Default Hey Tom. Shelby's cobra sold for $5.5 mil. !


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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On 1/22/2007 5:39 PM, RCE wrote:
For those interested, here's some pictures of the Cobra in discussion.

(Have to make more room in the garage ..... I wish ... LOL)

http://www.eisboch.com/5MCobra

Eisboch



I had a friend in Kansas City in the 1960s who had a full-dress Cobra. He
let me drive it a couple of times during practice sessions on airport SCCA
circuits in Oklahoma and Arkansas. It was a real sports car, uncluttered
by the overdone-ness of today's corvettes and mustangs. It was also a
bitch to get around short, tight courses.


There were ill handling dragsters. I could go around a corner side by side
with most 289 Cid Cobras but when we hit the straightaway was like a fueler
dragster compared to my Vette. We gave away about 1200# weight. Was a 1950
suspension design AC Bristol with a bigger motor.