Barret Jackson - worlds only remaining 1966 Cobra "Super Snake" sells for 5 million

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/carlist/cardetails.asp?In_AuctionID=221&In_LotNumber=1301

As history shows, CSX 3015 is one of two Super Snake Cobras built. The other being CSX 3303 built for Bill Cosby. CSX 3303 was a 1967 427 street car retained by Shelby American as a PR car and then made into a Super Snake for Bill Cosby. Cosby’s record album titled ‘200 MPH’ attests to the fact of why he only drove it once before returning it to Shelby American. Shelby American sold it to S and C Motors in San Francisco, who then sold it to their customer, Tony Maxey. Maxey destroyed himself and CSX 3303 by driving off of a cliff and into the Pacific Ocean. Sadly, Brian Angliss only opted to revive CSX 3303 leaving Mr. Maxey the only one still dead! This copy of CSX 3303 exists in the U.K. today and probably will be offered at an auction. It has absolutely no collector value.

bill cosby?- wow.

cosby had made a comment to shelby about how american built cars couldnt touch ferrari’s

shelby built him a super snake

cosby hopped in, took it for a test drive, managed to spin the car out in traffic like 30 seconds into the test drive

cosby returned the car to shelby, admitted he was wrong… and went back to his ferraris

:rofl:

haha thats funny. 5 mil, damnnn!

any one know if there is a replica with an ls(somthing) in one? i would like to see one.

it was in one of the old car craft mags saying shelby himself owned the car it was custom built for him with a twin supercharger 800hp block. they said he blew the engine up and then sold it but reading about that makes a little mose sense mroe of a story behind it there than it was in car craft

theres been alot of mistaken information about these cars over the years, thats the first ive heard that the car was sold because of a blown motor, and thats something that Shelby could have easily fixed

heres part of the resto of the car that was auctioned:

http://www.wurthitdesigns.com/cobrastory.htm

you must have read the same thing i read seemed like bs the man who created the car didnt want to put another sick motor into it? didnt make sense

that is awesome

damn that is pretty crazy, 5 mil :eek:

sweet

ugh that is a hot car.

800 horse in a Cobra… go-kart from hell :eek: That’s the highest sale ever at BJ, and they have some high-dollar cars.

That is a high number for that car but i’m sure the history plays into it alot.

Bill Cosby tells the story of the Super Snake :lol:

EDIT: Skip in to about 11 minutes when the story starts, or listen to the whole thing to hear V-dub owners get PWNED! :lolham: