This ‘66 Griffith is the type of car we love finding. Owned by the same fellow since 1967, it was raced at places like Watkins Glen as well as driven on the street. Cars like this one have a history, the tell a story and that’s a great part of car collecting and ownership. This Griffith is currently on EBay with Reserve Not Met at $52,100 and 38 bids. …Read More »

January 24, 2009: We’re back from a great weekend in Scottsdale where we enjoyed watching the action at Barrett Jackson, RM Auctions and Gooding & Co. We were very disappointed at RM when they announced the GT90 had been pulled from the event. We were looking forward to seeing the car and watching the bidding. If we find out any more info, we’ll post it here.

December 22, 2009: On Friday, January 22, 2010 RM Auctions will auction off a truly unique Ford. The 1995 Ford GT90 was unveiled in January 1995 at the Detroit Auto Show as a successor to the legendary GT40 which Ford, with help from guys like Carroll Shelby, employed to beat Ferrari at Le Mans throughout the second half of the 1960’s. The auction house claims $3million dollars was spent in developing the carbon fiber panel, honeycomb aluminum chassis, 720hp quad-turbo V12 supercar. While RM Auctions is not currently providing any estimates, we doubt it will be bid up nearly that high. In the meantime, do any readers have estimates of their own? …Read More »

This 1957 AC Aceca is a find that’s met us with mixed emotions. It was for sale (from what we recall, 6-7 years ago) for $44,000 here, but we missed it then! We’ve often looked for this exact car to come back on the market and now it has, but the values of Aceca’s have climbed, now the seller is asking $119,000. We think it’s fairly priced, just a bit hard for us to pull the trigger right now. …Read More »

Kirkham Motorsports makes some of the best Shelby Cobra reproductions in the world. If you’ve never heard of them, AutoWeek did a great article on Kirkham in 1996. Two brothers, David and Thomas Kirkham started the company, building aluminum bodies to exacting duplication out of an old MiG factory in Poland. The story is worth a look even if you’ve already read it; to give you an idea of how intelligent, thorough and methodical the Kirkham’s are, David learned to speak Polish simply because he wanted to be able to speak directly to his workmen. In other words, you’re guaranteed to get some value for the roughly $77,000 this car will cost you. …Read More »

This Lola-looking racecar is actually a McKee, the third chassis McKee Engineering constructed. The story is that Carroll Shelby ordered it for Bob Johnson to compete in the 1964 USRRC and until recently its whereabouts were unknown. There is some great information on the early McKee chassis and this car specifically in a thread you can find here at Autosport.com. What you need to know is, this car used to be an open cockpit with a unique body. By all accounts, it was involved in a few shunts and the original body needed modification and eventually the car ended up with the nose from Dan Gurney’s Lotus 18. In the early 70’s or so, it seems a fellow had the current Lola T70 body fitted to make it more competitive with the cars running at the time. Fully original it is not but this car has a unique history which is always welcomed. …Read More »

We know, yes… a lot of Mustang’s lately. What can we say, we love them. This car is pretty straight forward, Red/Black with some Shelby bits, the reason we posted it here is the price, $15,000. It wasn’t long ago that bare Mustang fastback shells were selling for that money and if this car is as nice as it looks in pictures, it may be a great deal. …Read More »

We usually like to feature cars that are ready to drive, show or race; this ‘66 Shelby G.T. 350 is a bit different in that it’s largely un-restored and can use a little TLC. But, that’s exactly why we had to post it. We recently posted another 1966 Shelby, which you can find here if you’re looking for more info about these cars generally. The Hertz cars, as most know, is the original Rent-a-Racer, there are dozens of stories of people taking these directly from the rental lot to the track. Hertz Rental commissioned about 1000 cars, most of which were black with gold stripes, this car still carries its original livery and for that reason alone, it’s an icon. …Read More »

October 13, 2009: Well, that was fast! EBay shows the Cobra R sold last night for the “Buy It Now” price of $37,900. Looks like there are still people buying cars out there…

October 11, 2009: If you’re looking for a “future collectible” or a car you can hold on to for a long time, drive, enjoy and not worry about, a 2000 Cobra R is probably a solid bet. We’ve thought these cars were cool since they debuted in 2000 and with only 300 in existence, they have a rarity factor regardless. The Ford Mustang is an American icon and there is no doubt they’ve proved themselves as worthy sports cars and the 2000 Cobra R is no different. It’s actually a more race-oriented, lighter, more powerful version of the typical Cobra and for only $35,000 we’d much rather have one of these versus a newer Shelby GT500, Saleen or SMS. …Read More »

With only 6 Shelby Daytona Coupes ever built and prices approaching 8 digits it’s not likely we’ll be seeing one in our near future. But, for a similar driving experience, the guys at Factory Five Racing have developed the “Type 65.” If you don’t know FFR, they’re the ones who revolutionized the kit-car market a few years back by offering ready-to-go kits that allow hobbyists to get parts from a “donor” car and build their dream car. This Daytona isn’t one of the donor builds, rather a brand new build in 2004 and now on sale for a reasonable $29,000. …Read More »

We recently posted a 1966 Shelby G.T.350 “Tribute” that was a very nice car and sold rather quickly. This is the car that “Tribute” was based on, a real ‘66 Shelby. These cars were built by Carroll Shelby to compete with the Europeans, both on and off the track; if you don’t believe that was the focus, just check out the “Eat Spaghetti” ad from 1966. This particular car is currently on EBay, bid to $68,850 with Reserve not met. …Read More »