The Batmobile
at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale.
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Several Ford Cobras have topped that number by plenty. While it's tough to call either the Futura or Cobras Fords in the purist sense, they were Ford products. But I agree that is big money for a really neat car.
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I would drive an expensive Cobra any day.
It would be super cool to drive the original Batmobile on any road any day,
But would you?
I don't think it would hurt the value that much, would it?
Yah, I'd own both cars if I could.
It would be super cool to drive the original Batmobile on any road any day,
But would you?
I don't think it would hurt the value that much, would it?
Yah, I'd own both cars if I could.
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The only Cobras that I know of that went for that kind of money is the 427, twin-supercharged Cobra roadster and the Cobra Daytona coupes, which won the World Championship in '65 and of which only 6 were ever made. Regular 427 roadsters go for maybe $1M and 289 roadsters are about 60% of that, give or take. BTW, you can buy brand new ones from Shelby for around $80K or less for small block ones.
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It had to be around 20 years ago, but I went by a local higher end restaurant one day by my house. There were some custom hotrods there, one was a Cobra. I turned around and went back to get a closer look. As I was sitting there, the guy that owned it happened out and we got to talking. At first I thought it may have been a kit car. It wasn't. It was a full fledged 427 Cobra. That thing was gorgeous, dark metallic blue, with the two wide white racing stripes on it. We talked for a little, and he started it up. GEEZ!! That thing just shook at an idle, best sounding car I'd heard since the 60's/70's, it had the black sidepipes on it. He left without really getting on it, but it just shook something in me. Damn it, I'd have given anything to just sit in it.
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