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

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:06:44 GMT, "Calif Bill"
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"Jack Goff" wrote in message
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:40:41 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:25:19 -0500, "JimH"
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On 22 Jan 2007 05:48:22 -0800, "Tim" wrote:

1966 Shelby Cobra Sells for $5.5 Million

Yeah - that's quite a price even for a collector.

I wasn't much into Shelby's - I've never been a Mustang fan.

I'm more of a Corvette guy.

Cobra's ate Vette's for lunch.

You wish.

You're right, Tom. Vettes were barely an appetizer for a 427 Cobra.
In their day they killed *everything*.

Because the weighed about 1200# less than a corvette was allowed to weight
for racing. Duntov designed and built the Grandsports, but never made the
street as GM was getting government pressure about the racing aspects. The
GS's killed the Cobra. But not allowing Duntov to make and sell enough for
street use, they were never homologated for production racing.


Yep, that would have been interesting. If GM had moved forward with
the GS, Ford would have pulled Shelby in and funnelled money and
technology to him. We'd have had two factory supported cars.

Since GM killed the GS while in prototype stage, Shelby never had to
deal with them. They raced in different classes, and only met on the
track a couple of times. The GS was a little faster, but it faded
away, and Shelby felt no need to improve the Cobra, since the GS was
not a direct competitor.

Coulda, woulda, shoulda.... the Cobra is still the king.

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

RCE wrote:
He was
complaining that he had to pull and clean the plugs just about every time he
took it out.


I can understand that, because of the points/coil ignition. That is if
his is set to origional specs. HEI did wonders for plug fouling and
performance. The coils put out about 14,000v. and HEI, even the
earliest ones put out about 40,000v. makes a big difference in firing
plugs and plug life. Now some cars are pumping up to 90-105,000v.


Many a mechanic has been "hit" by extremely high voltage ignition.
fortunately, most survive.

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

Whats interesting, is that the same guy paid about 4.5 mil. for a GM
bus that was made back in the 30's. There were only 10 of them built
total. Interesting the people out there with that kind of disposable
cash.

On Jan 22, 2:33*pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On 22 Jan 2007 05:48:22 -0800, "Tim" wrote:

1966 Shelby Cobra Sells for $5.5 MillionYeah - that's quite a price even for a collector.

I wasn't much into Shelby's - I've never been a Mustang fan.

I'm more of a Corvette guy.

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

On Jan 22, 10:55*pm, "Corsair23" wrote:
*said he built the Super Snake
- with twin superchargers on a 427 cubic inch V-8 -

How in the hell do you put 2 Superchargers on ONE intake manifold...if
you cant show me a picture of an actual OPERATING engine.......this is
bull****.


Scroll down and check out the "Big Red" by Arlen Ness.

jesse james isn't worthy to be a pimple on this guy's butt!

http://www.kunis.nl/bikesuk/main.html#Arlen Ness

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

"Tim" wrote in message
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On Jan 22, 10:55pm, "Corsair23" wrote:
said he built the Super Snake
- with twin superchargers on a 427 cubic inch V-8 -

How in the hell do you put 2 Superchargers on ONE intake manifold...if
you cant show me a picture of an actual OPERATING engine.......this is
bull****.


Scroll down and check out the "Big Red" by Arlen Ness.

jesse james isn't worthy to be a pimple on this guy's butt!

http://www.kunis.nl/bikesuk/main.html#Arlen Ness

His headquarters are about 5 miles from my house. He has a free museum at
the building. I use to store my boat around the corner from his building.
Saw some neat scooters in the parking lot at times.

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

On 23 Jan 2007 18:09:24 -0800, "Tim" wrote:

Whats interesting, is that the same guy paid about 4.5 mil. for a GM
bus that was made back in the 30's. There were only 10 of them built
total. Interesting the people out there with that kind of disposable
cash.

Even more interesting is that there is someone out there willing to
pay 5.4 million.

Wonder who he was?