01-29-2007, 04:41 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: San Antonio,
TX
Cobra Make, Engine: Former owner: JCF 289 slabside, ERA #329 and 424, GTD "Essex Wire" GT40; currently enjoying Hi-Tech 427 #147
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The "Supersnake"? When was that moniker created--when it was registered for sale at B-J? The friggin' thing's an automatic, for God's sake. It has no race history.
2196 has race history, is probably the lightest Cobra ever built (as light or lighter than the small-block cars), has a unique body and frame that has little or nothing in common with any other Cobra, has the "big-block aura", and not only has the Miles connection but the Shelby one, too (being a Cobra). It is a "1 of 1" car, built to best the Corvette Grand Sports (which Dave Friedman's Nassau photos prove it did, at least when it was running properly).
Buyers are fickle, but if Shelby were engaged to help market this car as the "lightest, quickest competition Cobra ever built" or somesuch, it ought to bring big dollars. I'll disagree with Cal here and estimate $5,000,001.
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