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.