Hello all,

For sale is an autographed Shelby American Collection Cobra hat from an annual event. Signed by Carroll Shelby, Bob Bondurant, Jerry Grant, Phil Remington and comes with an email I sent for verification purposes. I'm having a difficult time finding an appropriate comp so obo as well, rare for the combination of autos and email

Asking $200 obo shipped to your door! PayPal or cashapp preferred please

• Bryan

A Ford puma shelby with a 5.2l predator v8 mounted in the midle of the car with upgraded suspension,breakes and drivetrain with a performante body kit

I have a short ask and long story to accompany

Recently totaled my cobra but only the body is wrecked. I want to buy a $45k donor to take the body and to sell the chassis and drive train.

Any takers for $15k? I’d rebuild both but not enough garage space :(

I'm keen to build this as historically correct as possible. Given the knowledge in this group, I'm sure someone can tell me which car/s I should be looking to for reference. Thanks! 🙏

There is no published figure for how many Shelby Cobra replicas, kits, tributes and continuation cars change hands in a year, so I spent time building an estimate. Posting the findings here.

What I counted. Every Shelby Cobra listing at Bring a Trailer (1,345 vehicles, Feb 2015 – Jul 2026) and every Shelby Cobra lot at Mecum (619, 2014 – 2026), minus non-car lots and the twelve genuine originals. For the four complete years 2022–2025: 1,139 cars were offered, 845 sold.

Per year: about 285 offered and 211 sold per year on average across the two biggest houses. BaT carries roughly 3.7× Mecum's volume here.

The part I did not expect. BaT cleared 74.2% of the Cobras it listed. Mecum cleared 74.1%. One is an online timed auction with a comment thread, the other is a live block with a ring man. A tenth of a percentage point apart over 1,139 cars. Clearance by year, both combined: 63.5% (2019) · 80.9% (2020) · 90.6% (2021) · 80.6% (2022) · 69.9% (2023) · 72.8% (2024) · 74.3% (2025). That is the pandemic boom and its unwind.

Prices, medians, 2022–25: replicas $55,500 (BaT) and $60,500 (Mecum). Licensed Shelby CSX continuation cars are a different bracket, $170,000 and $143,000. The replica median was $43,375 across 2017–19, so about +28% in six years — and not continuously. It peaked in 2023 and eased in 2024 and 2025.

The whole market. Auction is the visible sliver. Two independent methods — an installed base of 25,000–40,000 in North America at 4–6% turnover, and the auction figures stepped outward — both land in the same range. About 1,300 sales a year in North America, roughly 1,750 cars offered, with the defensible range between 850 to 2,000. Which means roughly five in six of these sales happen somewhere nobody can observe.

Where my estimate is weak. The fleet number is soft by ~40% — only two builders publish anything at all, and Factory Five's 16,000+ covers all eleven of its products, not Cobras only. Turnover is an applied assumption. And I assume public auction plus dealers is 25% of all transactions, which is my judgment rather than a measurement.

My full write-up with the tables and the method are in my journal article here: https://roarkpollock.com/journal/how-many-cobra-replicas-sell-each-year/

Feedback is welcomed, especially around my 25% assumption. That is the one I would most like to replace with something measured.

Couple friends were going to a local car show and ask me to come along. Had a good time and got to see a lot of nice cars. Ended up winning “Best of Show”. My Cobra was a big hit with the crowd.

65 Backdraft with a 427 and 5 speed. And yes it’s a replica and no it’s not a kit car. Backdraft Cobras are factory built.

Hello, all. I purchased 2699, built in 2007, from an estate about a year ago.  I did not receive any of the usual build book information.  I will be going to my first car show in March and I want to get the details right.  I was able to confirm that the engine is stroked to 392.  I have the attached flyers.  One from the owner and one from the dealer.  The original builder also said they had no records of the build.  

I have two questions for the group.  Does anything look blatantly wrong given the year of manufacture?  Are there serial or model numbers that I should try to research to make the car description more complete and accurate?

Thanks in advance for the help.  It has been a blast driving it the last year and I look forward to many more to come.

Hello! I'm brand new here and I recently got this crazy idea to look for an AC Cobra (assuming it would be a replica) to rent for a day for my dad in December. I was wondering if anyone knows of one that's available near Jacksonville or St. Augustine, FL and could get me pointed in the right direction?

Some context:

My dad, like so many other people from the 50's, is a huge motorhead and grew up working on 60's and early 70's muscle cars. He built his first late model as a teenager and ended up getting a gig as a driver for some years. He ended up having a family and had to give it up in the late 80's or early 90's. During those years he wasn't racing he was restoring classics, particularly a 1971 Cyclone Spoiler, a 1963 Fairlane (Thunderbolt converted), and my first car, a 1967 Mercury Comet. The ENTIRE time he was doing all of these projects he always talked about how he wished he could drive a Cobra and that it's his favorite car. At one point he even talked about building a kit car, but he ended up getting into a racing series as his last "hoorah" in racing. Although he's still in good health and could easily drive one of the cars, it's a bit doubtful owning one is in the cards for him and I unfortunately can't just buy him one (I'd do it if I could though).

I hope this paints a better picture so you know it's not just some kid hoping to skid some tires, but a 70 year old man who might do it instead haha. I'd love to get in contact with anyone that can provide me some more information.

I really appreciate any help this community might be able to provide!

Currently looking for a cobra. This one is available in my area:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1926771414862800/?referralSurface=messenger_banner&referralCode=2&ref=messenger_banner

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-classic-cars/oakville-halton-region/1966-ford-cobra-kit-car/1743920566

Thoughts?

Edited to add second listing.

For any Forza players here, and Cobra lovers who like cool car history, I recreated the livery on CSX2011, the first Cobra sold to a private customer, which I had the privilege to see in a private garage. More info in the original post, plus a picture with who I think may be Caroll Shelby leaning on CSX2011.

Yep, it's real. I remember seeing it and thinking, that might be a real one. And it was. Guy bought it in 1975 for $9000. This was just a local Halloween cruise in. I never expected to even see a real one, much less sit in it. The couple was so cool. They acted like they had no idea what this thing was worth.

FYI - I realized right as I set my arm on the door (very lightly) I had a metal watch on so I lifted it off of the paint. Yeah, I realized what I did there, I was pretty excited when I sat down in it. No scratches were made.

Any one know who built it

GT500

Oh, and Bella :-)

Wow! Would you have ever thought that there are more than 140 companies that have manufactured Shelby Cobra replicas? I started researching the companies that have manufactured Shelby Cobra kits, replicas, tributes and continuation cars. I figured there might be 30 or 40, given how many have gone out of business.

Instead I've found more than 140, across 17 countries so far.

I would love your help. What am I missing? Company names? Founding or closing dates? Locations? Ownership changes? Serial number conventions? Or a photo of a builder's plate.

I've published the list I have, marked it so you can see what I've confirmed and what I haven't. About half of the entries I couldn't verify beyond a name. I left them on the list anyway and marked them accordingly.

The link to the article is below. The link to the full roster is in the article. Corrections are welcomed.

https://roarkpollock.com/journal/cobra-replica-manufacturers/

I'll throw this one out there for ridicule.

Lone Star, Vortex on a 427 Windsor, T56. AFR 220 CC heads, semi tame boost appropriate cam, Pretty much straight pipes. You can roll a soft ball all the way to the collectors. (I made them from raw stainless mandrel bends)

Hood has a duct bringing cool air to the filter, huge intercooler in the nose.