{"id":121715,"date":"2016-08-20T19:39:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T02:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=121715"},"modified":"2016-08-20T19:39:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T02:39:23","slug":"first-shelby-cobra-ever-built-breaks-auction-records-at-monterey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=121715","title":{"rendered":"First Shelby Cobra Ever Built Breaks Auction Records at Monterey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The star of this year\u2019s RM Sotheby\u2019s\u00a0Monterey Auction at Pebble Beach was undoubtedly a blue 1962 Shelby Cobra. Not just any blue 1962 Shelby Cobra, mind you. No, this is chassis CSX2000, the very first example ever built. It\u2019s rolling piece of history, the cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me of prototypes. Over five decades, it had never been outside Carroll Shelby&#8217;s stewardship, initially as part of his personal collection, and, since his death in 2012, part of the the Carroll Hall Shelby Trust. When the gavel fell Friday night, it officially became the most expensive American car ever sold at auction.<\/p>\n<p>Final price? A cool\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/first-shelby-cobra-ever-built-171500455.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The star of this year\u2019s RM Sotheby\u2019s\u00a0Monterey Auction at Pebble Beach was undoubtedly a blue 1962 Shelby Cobra. Not just any blue 1962 Shelby Cobra, mind you. No, this is chassis CSX2000, the very first example ever built. It\u2019s rolling piece of history, the cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me of prototypes. Over five decades, it had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121716,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121715\/revisions\/121716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}