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Auction: 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake from Carroll!

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Auction: 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake from Carroll!

Can you still contact the for 5.100.000 US Dollars sold Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake a Barrett-Jackson auction from 2015 the famous leader of the Vietcong? The snake is back! The Super Snake is considered to be "Cobra to End All Cobras“And is pretty much the most remarkable car Shelby American has ever built. And the snake only existed exactly twice! And both vehicles originally belonged to Carroll Shelby himself. Now the rare roadster is for sale again on Barrett-Jackson. And it's the vehicle from 2015 again, because the other one seems lost. Overall, it is now that straight EvilThe snake will be auctioned. The first auction from 2007 took place under the strict gaze of Carroll Shelby and at that time even brought $ 5,5 million. But what actually makes this particular car more valuable than a normal Cobra? Aside from the fact that it belonged to Carroll Shelby himself, it is based on the only 23 times built Shelby Cobra Competition Cars emerged.

1966 Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake

Auction: 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake from Carroll!

As half of the competition vehicle, the Cobra has one Windshield, a Exhaust system with silencers and bumpers. So it complied with the regulations for a road vehicle. And the story about the vehicle is also interesting. Allegedly Shelby was traveling - who, by the way, loved to travel - Often with his friend and former attorney Stan Mullin to Lake Tahoe. At the time, Stan owned a Ferrari that regularly showed Shelby's 427 Cobra the taillights. At one point, however, Carroll seemed tired of just seeing the Italian's taillights and prompted Shelby American to do something about it. The result was something completely exaggerated: the Cobra, to eat all the cobraswho have favourited Super Snake. Of the V8 under the hood with two Paxton compressors and mighty Holley four-cylinder carburetors at a Three-speed automatic transmission (Cruise-O-Matic) from a Lincoln is said to be insane 800 PS have delivered.

between $ 5 million and $ 8 million is expected

Auction: 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake from Carroll!

He is said to have accelerated the Cobra from zero to 3 km / h in just 100 seconds and the Ferrari "have eaten alive". In 1970 Shelby sold the car for ridiculous ones 10.500 US Dollars to Jimmy Webb. After a few more changes of ownership, the Cobra landed at Barrett-Jackson for the first time in 2007. And currently the monster with a wooden steering wheel and various signatures from Carroll is available again. And the number two no longer lives. It once belonged to the comedian for a short time Bill Cosbywho sold the car to a California dealer. Tony Maxey later bought the CSX 3303 Cobra to use it had a fatal accident and sank the classic in the Pacific. Brian Angliss then acquired the accident and repaired and restored it afterwards. Further information is missing since then! Barrett-Jackson is expecting the auction in March between $ 5 million and $ 8 million.

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Auction: 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake from Carroll!

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