Six Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupes were built to take on Ferrari in international GT racing — and out of all of them, this is the one car builder and racer Carroll Shelby chose to keep for himself, and never sold during his lifetime.
When it finally crossed the block at Gooding Christie's during Monterey Car Week 2026, it smashed the prior record for an American car (a 1935 Duesenberg SSJ at roughly $22 million) by nearly double — a genuinely new milestone for American-built automobiles.
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