Unique Cobra Brings $5.5M at Car Auction

Associated Press ^ | 01/21/07

[commonguymd]

I watched this. Pretty amazing to watch the bidding go out of control. Sweet car.

[presidio9]

I am trying to add a picture, but I can't find one.

[rightthinkingwoman]

We watched this on and off as well. Just crazy money being spent. Did you see Reggie Jackson's car go?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

[TexasCajun]

[theDentist]

Here it is...

.... after the buyer's 17 y.o. son sneaks it out for a "test drive" around the block...

[Emmett McCarthy]

I had heard reports about a Hemi-Cuda convertible with a factory 4-speed (?) which was also supposed to have gone on this auction. I think they said it might bring $4 million. Anybody know about that one?

[Syntyr]

Christies is going to be auctioning off a Porsche designed 485-hp Auto Union D-type race car. The car was commissioned by Hitler. They are estimating $12 million.

The current record is $11 million. That was paid for a 1931 Bugatti Type 41 Royale Sports Coupe sold by Christie's in 1987.

[Zathras]

Bill Cosby's standup "200 mph" is about the twin of this car.
It scared him to death.

[AFreeBird]

A twin supercharged 427 Cobra!!

Sweet mother of G*d.

Is it a side oiler too? (I'd be surprised if it wasn't)

[uglybiker]

B-J is crawling with Hemi 4-speeds. Some of them original. ;-)

I was there two years ago and even the clones were bringing 60-70K.

[martin_fierro]

Last year, he paid $4.32 million for the Futureliner, one of 12 futuristic buses used for shows in the 1940s and '50s by General Motors.

I would so love to drive one of these cross-country.

[Emmett McCarthy]

I thought that what distinguished this one was the fact that it was a convertible.

[Thermalseeker]

Pretty amazing to watch the bidding go out of control. Sweet car.

Same buyer as the $4 million GM streamliner bus that sold last year....

[rabidralph]

Mmmmm, sweet!

[uglybiker]

Hemi E-body convertibles are rare, but not that rare.

It would have to have a very unique history to get that price.

An Hemi Charger Daytona on the other hand.....

[advertising guy]

me and the misses were at PapaDeux eating supper late saturday night when the place fillled up with BJ biddrs and the guy who bought the Cobra was there all circled by others..........it was cool, oh so was the oysters and catfish fillets.

[dalereed]

He's added the superchargers (and restored) to the car from the 60s when we blew him off almost every Sunday at the drags with the Cobra we built for Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys.

I have no idea what happend to the car after Dennis got off on drugs and traded it in for a motorcycle at Hollywood Sport Car.

[presidio9]

Not that I would turn it down, but I HATE the color.