The very first Shelby Cobra CSX2000 auctions

[@lauramartin9474]

I was a Chevy girl, but this Shelby dude had to be on to something. When someone drops 12.5 million on a concept car, I had a transfusion. Now my blood is Ford blue with Shelby stripes ..haha

[@brandonthornborough4433]

One of the most expensive cars being auctioned of by a guy who's never been to an auction. I've seen cattle auctions with more energy. This sounded like he was auctioning off a library book!

[@hectormontegro3138]

This beauty is not the dame car that you can find in the Carol Shelby museum in Las Vegas?

[@anthonydavenport1841]

No that one was his personal Shelby though I believe

[@stevebowlby849]

I saw "THE ONE" at Saac 25 at Lime Rock Park in 1990.

[@Loulovesspeed]

I saw it at The Lime Rock Park Historic Festival in 2018. It sold in 2016 for just over $17,000,000.

[@375GTB]

Shel's FIRST car was an engineless ACE Bristol A wrecking yard '61 Ford Econoline van provided the 140HP 221 CID V-8 and all synchro THREE Speed box.... They found a cheap floor shifter kit.... NOT Hurst! Too expensive! Whole project was either $400 or $700.... Depending on who and WHEN the story was told... They tested the results around an oil fields roads... SECRET! Went like a BAT! THEN off to Ford and AC The rest is the better known HISTORY! Ask Phil..... Forza Ferrari J.C.

[@julianneale6128]

The car only arrived in the USA without an engine, because the engine used by AC to design and build the car was borrowed. After the car was completed the engine and box were taken out and given back to the owner in England, then the car was sent to the US. I find it interesting that AC could actually get hold of a Ford 260 V8, seeing as those engines were not sold in the UK. Imagine if that engine and box still exists somewhere in a barn in England, the money someone would pay...

[@MustangNthusiest]

Wonder where it is today, and I'm wondering WHY did he sell it.

[@ChristopherOvrebo]

MustangNthusiest it's in a museum in Gunbarrel CO, outside of Boulder. I have a video of it on my channel.

[@larrysmith6797]

He was DEAD. His estate sold it.

[@quagmiredavis4117]

@@larrysmith6797 rigor had something to do with it plus rotting smell.... lmao 🤣

[@acace3161]

i was in it

[@78miker]

I THINK HE KNEW HE WAS ON BORROWED TIME, THATS WHY HE SOLD A LOT OF HIS CARS OFF.

[@larrysmith6797]

This car was sold AFTER Carroll Shelby died.

[@steviesindahouse4903]

Carroll himself I understand wouldn't sell it for any amount .. I've read he was offered US$23M in 2012 and said no. Rest In Peace Carroll ...

[@brandonthornborough4433]

The man had 4 different heart surgeries. Of course he knew he was on borrowed time. RIP Carroll Shelby!

[@julianneale6128]

I understand it's the highest price ever paid for a British road car, and the car is now apparently back in England. I hear they are going to make a few exacting replicas of CSX2000, and not the 'reproduction' modern cars with GRP panels either... I heard somewhere that the James Bond Aston Martin DB5 mysteriously went missing from a museum a few years ago, with the insurance company paying out some $16.5M.

[@arvinbrown4156]

Julian Neale CSX200 was bought by Mark Miller and the Larry H Miller family who live in Utah. It is currently in Colorado at the Cobra Museum. The Miller family own over a dozen Cobras and many GT40’s including the 66 lemans winner

[@steviesindahouse4903]

True. 😀

[@julianneale6128]

@@arvinbrown4156 oh ok, I must have missed the article. Perhaps the English people were putting bids but didn't win, and I just read their plans if they'd won the car. It's a shame their plans to produce perfect cars directly from the original AC Cobra didn't happen. At least the original is in good hands though. I'm not a fan of all these 'continuation' cars, which are not at all like a real one. It's really simple. If it's not built and signed off by AC, it's not a Cobra.

[@generalpatton8468]

It was American too.

[@julianneale6128]

@@generalpatton8468 not really, only the engine and gearbox.

[@dobermanpac1064]

SELL YOUR TOYS BEFORE YOU DIE....CUZ, YOUR KIDS WILL SELL THEM SOON AFTER YOUR DEATH..... LOL

[@lauramartin9474]

Sound advice

[@Flytofishing]

This is the worst auctioneer I’ve ever seen he’s acting like it’s $10