Equipment
289 V-8, four Webers, hardtop, chrome paperclip rollbar, wire front wheels, wide centerlock alloy rear wheels with drag slicks, long tube headers ending in short side-mounted pipes.
Condition
Good but unimpressive paint. Sound chrome, good interior. An older restoration to nearly like new condition that appears to have been static displayed since. AACA Senior winner, restored to like new condition (and better than it ever was when making dragstrip passes in the mid-11's.) Dragged for years, a consistent winner driven by Bruce Larson when owned by Jim Costilow and later for Ed Hedrick. "The winningest competition Cobra in history."
Market commentary
Sold by Mecum at Kissimmee in 2011 for $927,500 with commission, then offered at Monterey in August 2011 with a reported $825,000 high bid. At Kissimmee in 2012 it was reported sold for $901,000, then failed to sell on a suspect reported bid of $1.1 million at Mecum Houston in April 2014. RM sold it in Arizona in 2016 for $990,000. A significant Cobra, but not on a par with the Shelby road racing team cars, its odometer has added single-digit miles in years, suggesting it just moves from collection to collection, a dormant artifact. Its prices over the years are nothing if not erratic and this result just continues the up and down trend.