29 April 2009 - 11:00
The £10m Cobra?
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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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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 $10 million.
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@Daniel123: I'd put my money on the lad buying the car (for say 10 million) having a few bob left after the buy. If you want to think with his pockets you shouldn't say "If I had 10 million", but more likely "If had 500 million." Compared to the filthy rich most of us are beggars. Yours truly included.
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BTW, Superformance makes decent replicas. Licensed by Carroll Shelby, no less. I know, there's no point telling the drooling TG mass. Wouldn't mind owning one.
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£10m... nice thou probebly go 4 more
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Most expensive car ever? I think so. Two things come to mind when I think of a blue and white Shelby Daytona: Testing it on an open M40 at 180mph, and, er, the number of races it won me on Gran Turismo 2. Still, it's a gorgeous car. If I had £10million...
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Mind you, 5000$ back in 1965 is roughly equal to 35000 $ by today's dollar value !!! which is quite a lot for an old beaten race car !!! For 10 million bounds I would rather end up buying (55) Lamborghini Gallardos better than this crappy car !! (Look at the back of it yakk :p)
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If i had 10 mil i would get this for sure. Probably a good car before, even better now but i still would get one
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if i had 15 millions bucks, i would buy a 1957 ferrari testa rossa. no doubt about it. and drive it HARD.
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I agree with Daniel this car is old and probaly lost loads of BHP down the line if you ahd £10million im sure most of you supercar lovers would not buy this,I know for one i would not dream of buying this for over 100k i would buy the veyron and the lambo countash.
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Bugatti = "A Volkswagen" . . . Lamborghini = "A Volkswagen" . . . The Cobra Daytona as a type has unbelievable rarity . . . 6 known models, and 1 of them had until recently been "lost" . . . *this* Daytona has the racing pedigree to boot. It's a unique part of racing history, and, unlike modern "supercars", this vehicle has earned its value.
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Daniel, he was talking about most people, not just you. Plus, he's right anyway - someone with the money to buy this proabably already has a large variety of supercars. But this is a very special car. Perhaps you're too young to really appreciate this car.
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I'll take two, Cheers!
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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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