Shelby selling 5 new 1963 Cobra Dragonsnakes—for a million each — via drivingdotca Vintage Collectible Shelby
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We should note, though, that for that money, you’re not going to get a whole lot of creature comforts. These handbuilt reproductions – assembled for Shelby American by Pennsylvania’s Legendary GT Continuation Cars, which it’s worked with before – aim to be rather accurate to the originals, and each of the five will specifically mirror one of the actual Dragonsnake cars that Shelby built in the ’60s.
Pause: you’re likely familiar with the Cobra, the small British-bodied roadster into which ol’ Carroll Shelby stuffed an American Ford V8 back in the early 1960s; the Dragonsnake variant is less well-known. See, whereas the Cobra was intended to be a sports car, Shelby built the Cobra Dragonsnake for straight-line speed, as a drag racer. His California shop only turned out about seven or eight Dragonsnakes, and they generally tended to take home trophies at the strip.
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