Kevin Eshraghi, courtesy of Shelby Legendary Cars
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The Shelby Cobra CSX2000 Tribute Series Roadster from Shelby Legendary Cars.
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The Tribute Series Roadster features a cockpit painstakingly replicating that of the first Shelby Cobra prototype.
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The car’s 280 ci small-block Ford V-8.
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Each Tribute Series Roadster will have a true Shelby serial number, between CSX2900 and CSX2909, as well as a Manufacturer’s Statement of Origin (MSO) from Shelby American.
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Only 10 examples of the Shelby Cobra CSX2000 Tribute Series Roadster will be made.
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The cockpit feels spacious and comfortable thanks to low bucket seats.
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For the 10 examples, the CSX2000’s original blueprints are used as direction for hand-forming the aluminum body panels.
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Each example can be thought of as a rolling history lesson that revisits the very first Cobra that Carroll Shelby built, a model based on the British AC Ace sports car.
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The original CSX2000 prototype from 1962, which sold at auction through RM Sotheby’s for $13.75 million in 2016.