World's most Expensive Cars Review: Why did 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake sold for $ 5,500,000?

1966 Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake-The most expensive car sold up to $ 5.5 million

1966 427 Shelby Cobra Super Snake made history record on January 21, 2007, and sold $ 5,500,000 at Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction, the world record price for an American car, auction organizers said.

It is one of only two produced for 800 hp sports and used as personal transport by renowned racer and performance car builder named Carroll Shelby himself. The buyer was car collector Ron Pratt of Chandler, Arizona.

The history recorded since Shelby, 84, attended the annual auction held in Scottsdale, Arizona, and brings together hundreds of collectors who bid millions for a rare sports cars, muscle cars and other vintage vehicles that ever made.

"When I built this dual supercharged 427 Cobra in 1966, I want to be the fastest car, the most violent in the street," said Carroll Shelby at Barrett-Jackson website. "Forty years later, he will still kick the ass of everything in the world". Carroll Shelby-pegged 00-60 mph when the car in more than three seconds. This is the fastest street legal Cobra he has ever had.
Super Snake stands out even among the Shelby Cobra was built 1962-1968. Combined lightweight British AC Ace body and Ford Cobra V-8 engine to do some of the wildest and most sought after American cars ever.

$ 5.5 million car started life as one of the 23 Roadsters Cobra competition and made legal for the road with the addition of shock absorbers, mufflers and other necessities. Above the line 427-cubic-inch V-8 Cobra Shelby added two Paxton superchargers, giving the Super Snake has nearly doubled its power production 427 Cobra.
Actually, Shelby created two Super Snakes. The other was sold to comedian Bill Cosby. Cosby returned the car after only one unit, using the experience as an ingredient in inducing comedy album, "200 MPH" said Harley E. Cluxton, a collector who has a Super Snake for sale at auction on Saturday. Writing in the Barrett-Jackson site, Cosby said Cluxton Super Snake which was later destroyed in a traffic accident where the driver was killed. Super Snakes Cluxton said only survivor still has many original components, including the engine block, exhaust brake calipers and oil cooler.

Cars "speaks volumes about the genius of Carroll Shelby," wrote Cluxton. "His Cobra is the benchmark that defines the American muscle car Your baby does everything. And without the help of ESP, ASR, ABS, engine management carbon fiber, ECU, titanium, or the UN. How cool is that."

A Race Modified Car-1966 Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake for Street Use

In fact, AC-Shelby Cobra is the epitome of high performance but still cool. The person responsible for this is pretty cool too. Texas charm, the promoters, deception and talent to make Shelby a pilot of world renown in 1959 when He won Le Mans for Aston Martin. The heart condition soon end the career plan, he leaned on his dream of building the fastest car in the world of sports. The result is striking terror that ate the track and can bite you in the streets.

Cobra began in 1961 as Carroll Shelby cleverly brokered marriage between aging, but take it the British AC Ace roadster and new Ford 260-cid V-8 lives. The powerful 289 shortly thereafter, providing a Cobra race tuned to 380 horsepower and overall crowns at the 1963 SCCA Production and U.S. Road Racing Championship.

He built 655 small block Cobras in 1965, when he introduced the "sports car" even harrier (he refers to race). Because the old AC suspension transverse leaf springs had to rule Cobra, multi-steel tube is widened and strengthened to set up a modern all-coil (still with double wishbones) and Ford big block V-8: high tense or running 427 cheaper, but torquey 428-cid passenger car units. Aluminum body is suitable modified roadster, a male extended fenders stretched over a stupid tire.

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