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History Buff: I am under the belief that the CSX 3063 Cobra clone sold for a bid of $600k at Mecum in Kissimmee. Can you advise where you got the $1.3 million figure?

No Cobra roadster came with a C9 transmission, if that helps.

I, for one, can't understand why anyone would prefer an Eleanor over a stock '67 Shelby. There is simply no comparison in terms of design and/or appeal.

If anyone is keeping track, the In-N-Out Cobra s CSX 2408. And boy could I use a double-double with cheese about now.

Please make that CSX 3009, not 2009.

Back when its original owner agreed to sell off the body and supporting tubing, the value of a 289 Cobra was at its low ebb. He was no longer driving the car and to him the offer made sense. Today, not so much.

A recent photo of the car.

Craig obviously had a true friend in the guy who agreed to sell it back to him if he wanted it, and actually did so 35 years later. Wow.

The white 289 (CSX 2171) sold for a hammer bid of $900k.

Quote from: SHELB66 on September 01, 2022, 02:49:33 PM
This one is from the 1966 Parsons College (Fairfield, Iowa) yearbook, last page.

Craig R.

See the SAAC Cobra Registry re: CSX 2450, David P. McCune.

CSX 3118 was not completed last Shelby American until August. But it became a test-mule for quite a while, and the automatic transmission was installed at some point, along with a small turbocharger. Jim Benavides used it as a company car, and it was finally sold "as-is" to Bill Kolb in '68. He said he changed it back to a 4-speed and sold it but the car supposedly had an automatic in it when it was stolen some  time in '81.

CSX 3118 was definitely a 4-speed initially.

The 427 Cobra pictured could well be CSX 3118, which was a black prototype that was shipped to Shelby American in April of '65 and was one of the first cars completed, as well as the first black street car. Unfortunately, there is nothing on the cars' invoices that tells us which wheels these early cars were initially equipped with, hence identifying the car with any certainty might be tough.

Good thing I know where that 1N 013 tag is resting these days.

The round tail lamps the car used in the UK were changed back to the typical AC rectangular units at some point after its arrival in CA. When Mike Begley bought the car in the late '60s, it had the standard Cobra lamps. They remained on the car until Tony Branda changed them back to the round ones after researching the car's history in the UK.