1966 427 Cobra for rent?

[STLUCIE]

Thank you, Bill. Ned was nice enough to send me the history of the car. I look forward to hearing the disposition of this matter.

But, back to my hypothetical rental of a CSX 3000, please bear with me, one and all.

There's a $1.5 Million-dollar Bugatti Veyron being advertised online for rent for $25,000/Day.

If you owned that Bugatti along with a $1.5 Million-dollar 1966 Cobra CSX 3000, would you consider renting the Cobra for the same price? If more, how much more? I mean, everything material has a price tag....care to guess what yours might be?

A purely hypothetical question.

[twobjshelbys]

Originally Posted by STLUCIE

Thank you, Bill. Ned was nice enough to send me the history of the car. I look forward to hearing the disposition of this matter.

But, back to my hypothetical rental of a CSX 3000, please bear with me, one and all.

There's a $1.5 Million-dollar Bugatti Veyron being advertised online for rent for $25,000/Day.

If you owned that Bugatti along with a $1.5 Million-dollar 1966 Cobra CSX 3000, would you consider renting the Cobra for the same price? If more, how much more? I mean, everything material has a price tag....care to guess what yours might be?

A purely hypothetical question.

A Bugatti Veyron can be replaced with an identical vehicle for a known price.

A real original CSX3000 cannot be replaced.

Can you rent the Mona Lisa?

[STLUCIE]

Originally Posted by twobjshelbys

A Bugatti Veyron can be replaced with an identical vehicle for a known price.

A real original CSX3000 cannot be replaced.

Can you rent the Mona Lisa?

You are telling me that there is no dollar amount you would consider for a day's or a month's rental of your Cobra.

[twobjshelbys]

Originally Posted by STLUCIE

You are telling me that there is no dollar amount you would consider for a day's or a month's rental of your Cobra.

That's what I'm trying to tell you. If I owned an original, it would never leave my possession. Heck, I wouldn't even let anyone else drive my CSX4000 car. First, they're simply too valuable and irreplaceable. Second, they are the worst handling car you'll ever drive, and a newbie driving off MY $1M+ CAR that has NEVER DRIVEN ONE BEFORE, will almost certainly kill my car at the same time he kills himself. It's not worth the risk!!!

It is also almost certain that the insurance policy on that same Cobra would forbid renting it anyway. The agreed value policy on my Ford GT had such a clause, and it wasn't worth anything near what a Cobra would be covered for.

I don't understand why you're hung up on a "daily rental price". If it were say it was a new car, and like a Ford Focus, you took your $1M+ Shelby Cobra to a Ford dealer for a service and it was still under warranty, you're not going to get a Cobra as a loaner. You'll get a Ford Focus for $25/day.

I sense you're trying to collect some "loss of use", but the reality is that even the new buyer was simply going to park it in a garage under show lights and never drive it.

[CobraResurrect]

Originally Posted by STLUCIE

Thank you, Bill. Ned was nice enough to send me the history of the car. I look forward to hearing the disposition of this matter.

But, back to my hypothetical rental of a CSX 3000, please bear with me, one and all.

There's a $1.5 Million-dollar Bugatti Veyron being advertised online for rent for $25,000/Day.

If you owned that Bugatti along with a $1.5 Million-dollar 1966 Cobra CSX 3000, would you consider renting the Cobra for the same price? If more, how much more? I mean, everything material has a price tag....care to guess what yours might be?

A purely hypothetical question.

I don't think it's beyond consideration.
My brother in-law is an electrician in the Hamptons and was recently in a garage that contained, as stated by the caretaker, an original Cobra. Interesting enough next to it was a Bugatti. I don't know the model of but my BIL said they were the only two cars in the garage with covers.
Also consider that this is just a summer home and the cars used only during the summer and most likely only on weekends.

A while back I was fortunate to be invited to go fishing on a 55' sportfisherman. At the time it was a dream come true. I never had expected to even step foot on one. The name of the boat was Just A Toy. Someone asked the owner what's up with the name. His reply, "Hey, it's just a toy". He used it for only fishing.

I don't know what those specific cars mean to the owner but it's very possible they are just unique toys to him. If there was a fire in the garage I bet his first thought would be if the insurance company is going to fully cover the cars.
And if he liked them, he would just get replacements.

Not sure if an owner like that would consider renting the Cobra. $25,000 might not be worth his time. But if rented for a week someone like that might consider it.