New Shelby Cobras??

[Anthony]

Rooster, yes, if Shelby made a cobra with a FF5 frame, suspension, he could still call it a cobra. To me, it would not be a "cobra", as the frame, suspension, mostly everything is different. To me, the fact that it is the same structurally, is the main reason it is a real cobra, whether it was made in 1965 or 2000, it is virtually the same car. It is not worth the same, but riding in it, working on it, it is the same car. I believe the Kirkham is a real cobra as well, although not a "Shelby" cobra, kind of like a AC cobra, COB/COX serial numbered cars. These cars are not nearly worth the same as a CSX3000 car. People may be asking more than $200K for these cars (COB/COX), trying to capitalize on the worth of a CSX3000 car, but I don't think they are worth much more than $100K - 150K.

A good example of a reintroduced car is the Ford GT. Although the car has sharper lines, which to me don't look as good as the GT40's of '60's, more importantly to me, the car is a completely different car from the original, as everyone knows. To me, it isn't a GT40, it's a modern midengine car, maybe closer in design to the Ferrari 355/360, than to the original GT40, made to look like a an original GT40. It's not even close to the original car, which to me takes away from it. Other people I'm sure would prefer the newer GT over the original. I would jump at the chance that Ford would reproduce the original GT40 MKI and MKII, but I know they will never do it.

Well, Shelby is offering the cobra again, in its original form and design. You have a second chance to buy the cobra from the guy who made it famous. There are those, like myself, that made the decision to buy it. There are alot of good replica's out there as well, ranging from very different from the original, to the Kirkham, identical copy of the original.

However SAAC decides to list the CSX4000 cars doesn't matter to me. I know what I have and what the car is. To me, a cobra that is built identical to the original, from the same manufacturer, is about as close as I can come to going back to 1965 to buy an original car brand new. It's alot cheaper than buying an original 427 S/C, which I believe are going for $500K and up.