Highlights
- CSX2549
- According to the Shelby Registry, fewer than 20 small block Cobras were built with the C4 Automatic
- Invoiced on January 28, 1965 to Reynolds Motor Company in Los Angeles, California
- Factory correct Silver/Red color combo
- Class A accessories
- Automatic transmission and chrome wire wheels
- Reynolds was unable to sell the car and asked to return it to Shelby American for credit against future GT350 orders
- Returned to Shelby American inventory in California in August of 1965
- Invoiced to Hi Performance Motors and sold it circa 1967 to Marv Tonkin Ford
- Tonkin sold the car to Jim Farmer of Lake Oswego, Oregon
- Sold in 1978 to Monte Shelton of Portland, Oregon
- Acquired by auto collector and journalist Jerry Heasley in 1988
- Heasley commissioned Wayne Davis to refinish the car in original Silver
- 289 CI engine
- Red leather interior
Carroll Shelby’s impact on the automobile is almost
immeasurable. He won in almost every form of motorsport he attacked,
excelling as a driver and then as a manufacturer and racing team
manager. He also redefined the sports car with the 289 Cobra, a
lightweight hybrid that married AC’s Ace roadster with Ford’s all-new
thinwall V-8 engine. Once Shelby’s chief engineer Phil Remington and driver Ken Miles sorted
the combination, the Cobra proved a terror in competition, immediately
trailering the new-for-1963 Corvette Sting Ray and eventually winning
the World Manufacturers Championship in Daytona Coupe form.
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