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01-22-2007, 07:27 AM
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#1 | | Registered User
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| Carroll Shelby sells own car for 5.5 Mil
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16745031/ Quote:
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona - An 800-horsepower Shelby Cobra, once the personal car of the racing veteran who developed the iconic vehicle, has sold for $5.5 million at auction, a record for an American car.
The sale of the 1966 Shelby Cobra "Super Snake" brought a packed house to its feet Saturday at the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction after a pair of bidders drove the price up.
Carroll Shelby, 84, who created the Cobra in the '60s using Ford engines and a British sport car chassis, said he built the Super Snake -- with twin superchargers on a 427 cubic inch V-8 -- and drove it for years.
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01-22-2007, 05:00 PM
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#2 | | bitch, please
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| yeah...i heard about that on saturday...fuckin nuts. | |
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01-22-2007, 10:07 PM
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#3 | | Rockford's Slow Junk
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| that car is sick.
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01-22-2007, 10:11 PM
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#4 | | Mitsu brat
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| The next owner is a ricer! 
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01-22-2007, 10:39 PM
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#5 | | ChicagoTuning.com
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| ^lol | |
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01-22-2007, 10:45 PM
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#6 | | WTFLobsterz
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| dang, that's like alot | |
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01-22-2007, 10:54 PM
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#7 | | Senior Garbage Poster
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| damn that guy should buy my accord, id give him a great price on it, i dont even want 1 mill for my car, just 30k would be enough for me | |
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01-23-2007, 12:16 PM
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| 5.5 mil?
Crazy. IMO, no car is ever worth that much money................. unless Jesus drove it. | |
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01-23-2007, 01:52 PM
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| ^ agreed | |
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01-23-2007, 09:36 PM
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#10 | | bitch, please
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| carroll shelby pretty much is jesus. | |
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01-23-2007, 11:15 PM
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#11 | | Registered User
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| that is insane
my dads friend put Yanko Camaro (100% perfect/original condition and kick ass car) through that auction at the same time and only got $167K, he was is super pissed. He didn't think that he needed to put a reserve on it. Its worth about $400K.
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01-24-2007, 12:19 AM
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#12 | | Wait...that thing is AWD?
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Originally Posted by B_BODY_1 that is insane
my dads friend put Yanko Camaro (100% perfect/original condition and kick ass car) through that auction at the same time and only got $167K, he was is super pissed. He didn't think that he needed to put a reserve on it. Its worth about $400K. | LOL 
It's a Yenko (with an 'e') btw.
And yes, Carroll Shelby virtually is Jesus in the world of the automobile. | |
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01-24-2007, 12:25 AM
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#13 | | Registered User
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| sonofabeyactch......... LOL
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02-12-2007, 07:20 AM
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#14 | | Registered User
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| Isn't the first time he has done this, VOLO owns 2 of his personal shelby's, his own custom mid 60's stang and an EXP 500, neither of which sold for near that combined im sure.
Is this is highest winning bid for B-J now? | |
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