Equipment
This is nearly singlehandedly the car that enabled Shelby to deliver Hank the Deuce''''s dream of beating Ferrari for the FIA manufacturers championship. It is beautiful. It was introduced on the block by its designer, Peter Brock, and one of its drivers, Bob Bondurant.
Condition
It has been redone to like new condition without making it into some gilded, chromed object of veneration.
Market commentary
$175 buys the new SAAC Shelby World Registry, which has the details. It took only another $7,684,825 to buy the object. The new owner said, "I''''ve always wanted one of them", and of them this is the one to have. CSX 2300, with no significant race history, brought $4,400,000 at RM''''s Monterey auction in 2000. The increment nine years later for a race winner is modest enough. Bid to $6.8 million 10 weeks ago in Indianapolis, a lot was riding on this car in Monterey and it carried the load.