New Shelby Cobras??

Snake'd · #1 (**permalink**) 08-03-2003, 08:23 PM

Well here it goes.What is your opinion about the new Shelby Cobras holding their value.Or losing valve.Do you think it would be an investment or just bragging rights.I see very few for sale.

Allan A · #2 (**permalink**) 08-03-2003, 08:26 PM

All I can say is I love mine and I don't even have the motor yet. As for value we will see down the road. Two were recently purchased up in our area.

Allan

daltondavid · #3 (**permalink**) 10-17-2003, 05:45 PM

I am leaning towards getting one after Visiting the Factory, Meeting Shelby and yes, I think they will hold value. I have a 68 Shelby GT 500 now and am thinking about selling it and putting it towards a CSX

Rick 427 Cobra · #4 (**permalink**) 10-17-2003, 09:59 PM

I sold my 65 GT-350 in 76 to by a Cobra. All I can say is DON'T, unless there is no other way. Once you buy something you like, keep it for ever. Find another way to get the CSX.

SFM5S-421 I miss you, where ever you are.

Rick

TerrysSPF · #5 (**permalink**) 10-17-2003, 10:29 PM

With the new 39K Shelby rollers coming out, I don't know what that will do to the values of the "others". I know if I had purchased a glass Shelby a year or 2 ago for a lot more $$, I wouldn't be very happy today! ........well, maybe I would......I'd still be driving a Cobra!
It will be interesting to see what these new rollers do to the rest of the market - not just the other Shelby cars, but the replica's that are out there.....especially the ones selling in that 40K price range (hello SPF). I hear Superformance is changing their prices on their chassis after the 1st of the year............but they are going UP, not down! Who wooda thunk it? (maybe it's an AC influence????)

MysteryTrain · #6 (**permalink**) 10-17-2003, 11:57 PM

TerrysSPF,

If that's true, and SPF is raising their price, I'm very interested to see the results. I personally think it is a very shrewd move. One of the mistakes companies continually make (especially in the Land of the Free, and the home of the discount store) is to drop prices as soon as the competition moves in. No, no, no. If your product is the real deal (meaning high quality) never, never drop your price. It only reduces its percieved value, becomes more common because now the company has to produce higher volume to make the same profit, and thus less desired. Scarcity=demand. The more rare, the more demand. It would be the natural reaction for SPF to drop their prices in effort to combat Shelby, but actually raising their prices COULD serve to position their product as "superior" to Shelby's in spite of the name factor. Whether or not it actually IS superior is another question altogether, but positioning one's product is a huge marketing challenge, and I think SPF would only serve to cut their own throats to get into a price war with Shelby. Kirkham seems to do just fine by producing a high quality product and charging a premium for it. This was true even after the new "real" Cobras hit the market. The big question about Cobra prices will have more to do with the used Cobra market as more cars are produced. Guys like me who are just now reaching a point in our lives to make our dream a reality are just drooling at all the potential great deals. Especially with the economy as it is. I may even hold on another 8 months just to watch the used cobra prices . . . I have a feeling patience will be rewarded.

MTrain

Turk · #7 (**permalink**) 10-18-2003, 12:00 AM

It's all good.

TURK

Don't buy ANY Cobra for appreciation or depreciation in the future
Buy it for IMMEDIATE appreciation.

Damn, I can be so profound at times!

Bumpster · #8 (**permalink**) 10-18-2003, 12:25 AM

Turk - And just what might those times be?

Bumpster

Woodz428 · #9 (**permalink**) 10-18-2003, 05:04 AM

Nothing operates in a vacuum. I understand that the S.African Rand went up 30 percent last week in relationship to the dollar. That would mean that SPF as well as the new Shelbys would have to go up in price, so it will be interesting to see if the Shelbys can keep the projected price in the the monetary realignment. I would think anything coming from there would have to go up, 30% is a pretty big jump to expect any company to absorb and still be profitable.

daltondavid · #10 (**permalink**) 10-18-2003, 06:12 AM

Are you saying the new SHELBY COBRA is built in S.Africa?

427Aggie · #11 (**permalink**) 10-18-2003, 06:41 AM

Yes you didn't know that? The aluminum cars are still made over here and have kirkam bodies on it. The glass cars or $39K rollers are made at the CAV facility in S Africa.....

Matt

Tout · #12 (**permalink**) 10-18-2003, 09:13 AM

After looking at more than a few new Shelby CSX 4000 cars, both glass and Al it was clear that the base cars were NOT even close to a few of the better replica mfgs out there. The price to upgrade components left me wondering why. This leaves me to wonder what you get for half the money and what about the owners that spent the money on the glass cars built before this. Also the quality differed alot from the dealers putting his cars together, some were great,some poor, what happens WHEN the man dies, and that will happen someday?

Mike C. · #13 (**permalink**) 10-18-2003, 09:42 AM

You buy a FFR for the 1/3 of the price of Shelby CSX and you can still have a awesome car....You don't have to be a brian surgeon to make that decision.

PatBuckley · #14 (**permalink**) 10-18-2003, 09:50 AM

Or you could buy a Mitsubishi EVO for 1/3rd the price and also have an awesome car......

Excaliber · #15 (**permalink**) 10-18-2003, 09:53 AM

Pat,,,,,,,ouch! Point well taken.

Ernie

Specialk · #16 (**permalink**) 10-18-2003, 10:08 AM

Look what we have here, a brian surgeon!

BlueRooster · #17 (**permalink**) 10-18-2003, 10:14 AM

I wonder what school you have to go to to become a brian surgeon???

Excaliber · #18 (**permalink**) 10-18-2003, 10:49 AM

You don't suppose brian surgeons most likely drive EVO's or FFR's? Ya think?

Ernie

Caustic_Cobra · #19 (**permalink**) 10-18-2003, 10:59 PM

Hi,

I am new on the boards here and was just curious as to Touts reply. He claimed the quality of the Shelby is not comparable to the nicer replica builders. Curious if someone can elaborate on that subject. Is that actually the opinion of others who have seen the Shelby cars?

Excaliber · #20 (**permalink**) 10-18-2003, 11:34 PM

No question in my mind, but hey, we all have opinons, heres mine.

The new Shelby Cobras out of Africa rate right up there with the best you can buy! The aluminum Shelby Cobra out of Vegas may be the BEST you can buy, period. Possible exception? The Kirkham,,,oh wait,,,,there basically the same car!

Ernie