Saturday, March 7, 2009

Original Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe up for auction in May



Expectations in May is a historic, rather than a two cars may have to break the record auction price of the same weekend. We have already reported a TR Ferrari 250 rooms will be sold Maranello auction, Mecum will now announce the sale of a 1965 Shelby Cobra Daytona legendary sports car at its 22nd annual Spring Classic at Indiana polydor Adams auction. Live auction will be conducted discovery HD Theater, with sales of Daytona sports car at 20 o'clock on Friday, May 18.

Mecum car will be fully expected to exceed the maximum amount to be paid at public auction of American cars, This is the best of our knowledge, in the Shelby Cobra Super Snake for sale Barrett Jackson in 2007, a total of 5,500,000 U.S. dollars. Auction house or even the hope of achieving the figure 8 markers. The current record holder of any motor vehicle in 1961 are the Ferrari California Spyder sold for 10.89 million U.S. dollars at the auction room last year.


Sold at Daytona sports car, chassis CSX2601, is the fourth of only six built, won the three games of the competition the following 8 FIA it one one of the people are in France Lance win points, get the Shelby the performance of the world's manufacturers of third-grade GT Championship. Car had been fully restored to its original state and the Lance sports coating. Bob Bondurant, who is driving the Daytona sports car win early in 1965 it also has before long, returned to the homeland of the car in his high-performance driving schools in Chandler, AZ this weekend. He also joined the彼得布罗克, who designed sports car, the two stories together to develop and car racing. Since then, Bondurant even put the first car at the track on his first driving it at more than two decades. Jump in accordance with more details about the auction, and check for an excessive number of high-resolution photo gallery below.
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