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If you liked the look of that gorgeous, shortly-to-be-auctioned Ferrari P4 we showed you last week, but prefer your classic racing metal in American rather than Italian flavour, how about one of these?
This is the 1965 Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe and, like the P4, it’s just about to go up for auction.
And it’s gonna be expensive. Seriously expensive. Mecum has predicted that the Daytona Coupe will fetch between – ready for this? - $10 million and $15 million (that’s about £6.8 million and £10.2 million) when it goes under the hammer. If it passes $10.9 million (£7.4 million), it’ll become the most expensive classic car ever, eclipsing the 1961 Ferrari California Spyder sold by RM last year.
Why so expensive? Because, like the P4, the Daytona Coupe – chassis CPX2601, and one of only six ever built – is a bone fide champion. This very car clinched the FIA GTIII championship in 1965 at Reims in the hands of Bob Bondurant against the dominant Ferraris.
Legend has it that Bondurant was offered the car for about $5,000 after the race, an offer he turned down because it was ‘a beat up old race car’. He probably regrets that now.
Now fully restored, the Daytona Coupe will be up for sale on May 18 in Indianapolis, courtesy of Mecum auction house. Will it become the world’s most expensive classic car at auction? We’ll keep you in the loop…
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Mr._Nice commented on this article
at 03:13 pm on 29 April 2009
They have one of these at the Simeone Foundation Museum, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The one there was actually owned by Phil Spector, who recently was convicted of second degree murder, in the killing of the actress Lana Clarkson. Jay Leno drove this car, and the video can be seen on his online show.
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Tjziz commented on this article
at 06:31 pm on 29 April 2009
Hate to be nit-picky here, but the serial number is CSX2601, not CPX2601. And any moron that knows the history of this car and how valuable it really is will get a great investment. This car will most likely sell for well over $10 million.
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at 08:40 pm on 29 April 2009
@Daniel123: I'd put my money on the lad buying the car (for say 10 million) having a few bob left after the buy. If you want to think with his pockets you shouldn't say "If I had 10 million", but more likely "If had 500 million." Compared to the filthy rich most of us are beggars. Yours truly included.
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at 08:46 pm on 29 April 2009
BTW, Superformance makes decent replicas. Licensed by Carroll Shelby, no less. I know, there's no point telling the drooling TG mass. Wouldn't mind owning one.
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astons4eva commented on this article
at 09:46 pm on 29 April 2009
£10m... nice thou probebly go 4 more
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