Equipment
Braced paperclip rollbar, Lucas driving lights, full width Plexiglas windshield, side exhausts, full width Plexiglas windshield, real, dull magnesium Halibrand kidney bean knockoff wheels, quick jack pickups, no bumpers, gutted, dual quads, hood scoop. The first racing Cobra sold at retail, the third of the original Cobra competition cars. Raced by John A. Everly. The next owner, John Archer, used the engine in a Gemini and installed the current GT350R dual quad powerplant. Recently sympathetically refreshed after 42 years with its prior owner, Ron West, and brought up to current safety requirements. Rough, dull, used, as raced and achingly real.
Market commentary
Nifty, cool, exciting, but most of all real. Real racing cars with this kind of history, originality and preservation just dont show up very often. Even less often when theyre Anglo American hybrids that got used, modified and trashed through generations of owners. This Cobras survival is nearly miraculous and if nothing else that fact alone justifies the healthy price it brought.