Caffeine & Carburetors New Canaan

"Brian Silvestro" (BrianSilvestro) 05/10/2015 at 18:18 • Filed to: cars and coffee, caffeine and carburetors, $kaybait, new canaan

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This is Carroll Shelby’s personal Cobra. Neat!

A mother and her young son got out of this Silver Cloud. Looks daily driven.

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TheHondaBro > Brian Silvestro 05/10/2015 at 18:22

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Pretty sure it’s a replica.

Brian Silvestro > TheHondaBro 05/10/2015 at 18:25

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nope

JGrabowMSt > TheHondaBro 05/10/2015 at 18:47

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Nah son, that was the original 289 Cobra.

The very first one that was built and used to pitch them. Got repainted 4 times for the original ad.

Learn stuffs, yo.

Supercharged-V8-Jag > Brian Silvestro 05/10/2015 at 18:48

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QCGoose > Supercharged-V8-Jag 05/10/2015 at 19:00

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All the stars for this reference, good sir.

PushToStart > Brian Silvestro 05/10/2015 at 19:02

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Great pictures, man!

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Brian Silvestro 05/10/2015 at 19:10

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*was* Caroll shelby’s

Brian Silvestro > PushToStart 05/10/2015 at 19:12

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Thanks!

Brian Silvestro > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 05/10/2015 at 19:12

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LOL

Blondude > JGrabowMSt 05/10/2015 at 19:55

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I highly doubt CSX2000 has been repainted within the last two years.

Blondude > Brian Silvestro 05/10/2015 at 20:03

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Definitely not Carroll’s personal Cobra. His Cobra (CSX2000) looks like this.

It also looks like that one has a radio which means it’s either a replica or someone hacked up an original to fit a radio.

JGrabowMSt > Blondude 05/10/2015 at 20:05

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What Ive learned about Shelby is that theres a big difference between the #1 car, and the first car built. Shelby was notorious for sneaking his own personal cars in later in the production runs, and this particular ride is not the first one he did this with.

Maybe the next time I see the ex-Shelby employee with the Super Snake, Ill inquire about that, and see if he relinquishes any info regarding that practice.

Bill Thomas had a much better handle on his cars. So much better than the original 40 are still being assembled and sold off. Ive met owners of two Cheetahs so far.

Brian Silvestro > Blondude 05/10/2015 at 20:09

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But I don’t believe you!

Blondude > Brian Silvestro 05/10/2015 at 20:10

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Here’s his car at the Monterey Motorsports Reunion back in 2012.

Blondude > JGrabowMSt 05/10/2015 at 20:18

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Well, yeah, but the Cobra community has always kept track of the historically significant ones.

Carroll’s car was kept with him up until his death and is currently kept at Shelby American’s HQ in Las Vegas. The first production Cobra was CSX2001 and that one is currently owned by Bruce Meyer in Beverly Hills.

JGrabowMSt > Blondude 05/10/2015 at 20:24

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I doubt he settled for just one.

Brian Silvestro > Blondude 05/10/2015 at 20:34

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I still don’t believe you!

Blondude > JGrabowMSt 05/10/2015 at 20:47

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He did keep CSX3015 (the only original Super Snake left) up until a few years back. The guy made Cobra’s for a living, he really didn’t have any need to hoard the cars. Shelby was notorious for trying to make a quick buck *cough* zMAX *cough* so I doubt he would do anything that would keep him from making money.

JGrabowMSt > Blondude 05/10/2015 at 20:52

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Well, on the flip side, hoarding a small number of completely original cars would just turn them into investments, as the Super Snakes are 6 million each and the 427s are very close to 1m themselves.

Im sure given their limited production initially, or rather just overall low production numbers, he had a good idea of where their values were headed.

RedPir8Roberts > Blondude 05/11/2015 at 01:06

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Nor would anybody have replaced the seat, which as shown in your pic looks like a cat got mad at it, pieces of leather missing. I saw it then also. I also note the original factory wire wheels and tires are narrower and the spokes more tightly spaced than the modern ones on the red car. Carroll Shelby once turned down a couple of million for the car, saying he’d never sell it.

190e30-Now with COSWORTH > Brian Silvestro 05/11/2015 at 08:00

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Eyy

Blondude > RedPir8Roberts 05/11/2015 at 08:09

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Good call on the rims. Those definitely look like the ones on the Superformance 289s.

jmedarts > Brian Silvestro 05/11/2015 at 08:53

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GREAT PICS! and great cars! I should have come.

Brian Silvestro > jmedarts 05/11/2015 at 09:23

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Thanks!

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Brian Silvestro 05/11/2015 at 13:07

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Brian,

Did you get another look at this flap that was sticking out of the top of the P1?

Brian Silvestro > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet 05/11/2015 at 13:21

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no and I have no idea what’s going on there

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Brian Silvestro 05/11/2015 at 13:27

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Curiouser and curiouser.

Makes me think of those flaps on top of nascar that open up as air brakes in the event of a spinning sending you backwards at high speed.