Mecum: CSX 3301
 

1966 Shelby Cobra 427 Roadster - CSX3301


" This super rare AC Cobra #3301 is the first car in the third group of 427 Cobra production #3301 was completed at AC cars on 9-1-1966 for delivery to Ford Advanced Vehicles in Slough, England. As it was neither shipped nor invoiced to Shelby American. This was one of only two 427 cars invoiced to Ford Advanced Vehicles & used for show & track purposes "

http://www.mecum.com/auctions/lot_de..._011311_F211_1

From what I found on a Google search, this car sold in January, 2007 at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale for $950K and then in January, 2011 at Mecum Kissimmee for $550K. It just sold now at Mecum Kissimmee for $735K.

Just got back from Mecum. As I was admiring the car, a blowhard expained to his girldriend/wife, that is was a "kit-car" and worth pennies.

$735k / 1cent. Let's see...that's 73,500,000 pennies, so he is correct.;)

Congratulations Kevin Collins
 

Congratulations to Kevin Collins for selling his car. Kevin is a member of our Kentucky Cobra Club, owner of CSX 3301 that just sold. We are proud of the car. He is one of our strongest supporters and we hold our monthly Snakes n' Eggs at his car dealership, Bill Collins Ford in Louisville.

We watched as his car was Auctioned and felt tremendously proud when the camera panned past the Kentucky Cobra Club decal on his windshield. Also he sold a few of his other Shelbys there this weekend.

We have seen this car close up during our meetings and man is it nice, wow!

Below is the car at one of our Snakes n' Eggs meetings.

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When I checked the Mecum website yesterday, it said that CSX3301 was DNS at high bid of $635K. So, did someone make the deal at $735K after the car crossed the block?

That is a beautiful car! I wish I had known it was in KY as I would have loved to take a look in person. It's amazing that there does not seem to be a lot of replicas in that color combination. Guess I'll just keep looking at mine and smiling!!:)

Kevin's Car
 

Here is CSX 3301 at the most recent Concours d'Elegance in Louisville the Kentucky Cobra Club participated in.

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Got screwed by Ned Scudder
 

It baffles the imagination that a guy like Ned Scudder who he and a lot of people believe him to be the one that knows almost everything about each and every cobra. I'm talking about owned by then, owned by now, its history then and history now . I guess we could call him the cobra guru. He even wrote the new book !
I guess maybe not. Because I David Ciardullo have a great and true story about HOW, WHO, WHEN, and WHY CSX3301 became what it is today and because I am the only one who knows the full story of CSX3301 once again I am baffled that I was never asked to tell my story about how I acquired CSX3301...How It came to be the color it is today... and why etc. Well I think it needs to be told.
Well here I am always have been a car guy since I was old enough to know what a car is. Its the year 2000 and I am standing in my dispatch office loading concrete into my concrete trucks and I get a phone call from a Dr Ravi Shetti a Nero surgeon from great neck long island. He begins to tell me that he is building a senior citizens apartment complex in Amityville N.Y. home of the famous Amityville horror house. So his question to me is would I give him approximately 200,000 dollars worth of concrete for a trade against a car he has in his garage. With this question he invites me and my wife to dinner at his house in Great Neck with he and his wife who will be doing the Indian cooking witch was surprisingly delicious and after dinner we would look at the car that he was valuing at around 200,000 dollars. So my wife and I graciously except his invitation. We go to the house and after dinner he take me into the garage and there it is this beat up looking abused looking guardsmen blue with white stripe 427 cobra.
After he removes the boxes and stuff and more stuff from the paint that is beat to hell I start to inspect the cobra with the gauges in kilometers 10356about 6400 miles I smile and make the deal. 200,000 in concrete will be about 140,000 my cost nothing out of pocket. I bring the car to first body shop that I won't mention the name strips the car down to the bare aluminum using a cheese grader to scrape off the paint and a lot of the aluminum and then starts to completely cover the whole car in brown plastic. After pulling the car out of there as fast as I could I find out about Billy Andrews and H.R.E. motor cars who builds new continuation cobras for Carroll Shelby. I give Bill five large boxes of parts a engine, tranny , 4 wheels and a cobra body that looks like it was made of clay I leave it in his very capable hands .
I go home and start to do the research on my pile of junk I just left Bill. I find out the car was originally a under exhaust roadster no roll bar , no hood scoop , no side pipes and four skinny sunburst wheels in Wimbledon white no stripes. The car was pulled off the line at AC cars in England and handed over to the boys at FAV Ford Advanced Vehicle were it got side pipes, roll bar ,big halibrant wheels and tires, marcel headlamps and polished aluminum engine bay and polished trunk .
Bill starts to work his magic on my car. I tell him I want the car to be done in Wimbledon white with 1997 viper blue stripes. After I!!!!spent 120,000 dollars out of my pocket to restore the car one of the most beautiful cobra emerges from bills garage. Nothing like the sound off a cast iron big block cobra.
In 2005 I take CSX3301, CSX4007R and my 2005 ford gt #61off the assembly line all my cars are under HRE'S tent and Carroll Shelby and his wife Clowie walk in and we talk for two hours he signs CSX3301 glove box Carroll Shelby , almost falls in CSX4007R because the doors don't open and he loses his balance I had to catch him. That would not have been good (Shelby dies in CSX4007R signing and autograph). Then he climbs in the passenger seat of my ford Gt and signs It to my friend Dave. When he climbs into his golf cart and drives away after signing everything I had and more I realize that I forgot to have him put something on the glove box better than just Carroll Shelby. I unscrew the glove box door jump in my golf cart and chase him back to his trailer. I get out of my cart and he says to me did I forget something and I said no sir I would just like to ask you a favor above were you wrote your name could you please write (One of the rarest CSX3301) no questions asked he just signed it I shook his hand and got in my golf cart and drove away. One of the nicest people I have ever met. In 2007 I took CSX3301 to Barrett Jackson and sold one of the most beautiful cars I've ever owned for 850,000 dollars. The car is today just as perfect as I!!!!!!! had it built in 2001. I have lots of pics of me and Carroll hanging out shaking hands and signing all of my cars at lime rock park. If Clay the owner of CSX3301 ever wants to sell it ever I would buy it back in a heartbeat. DMC194@AOL.COM

Its too bad as I saw this car for sale years ago for 500k and it has yet to find a home... This car has had more owners than Liz Taylor had husbands.
Maybe its same owner?
FULL STORY? Thanks...... awesome

I remember when Carroll signed 3301, at Limerock CT

David, if you would like everyone to know the HOW, WHO, WHEN, and WHY CSX 3301 became the car it is today, it sounds like they need to call Billy Andrews.

I don't really know who "Nasty 427" is, but I recommend that he invest some of his concrete money in a course in remedial English. As far as being surprised that 3301 did not originally have a roll bar or side exhausts, he wins the prize for the least informed buyer of an original Cobra in the last three decades or so.

Spot on!

No further need for parallel conversations on this...

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