On the West Virginia one owner 289 found in 2011

[Historybuff]

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Chassis CSX2384. 1964 Shelby Cobra 289 chassis information

I found this car pictured at some car show, maybe Amelia Island concours.

Here's what the caption said: "CSX2384 was purchased new by Raymond T. Fagg, Sr. from Andy Clark Ford in Bluefield, WV, where Mr. Fagg worked as a technician. It was delivered with the optional hardtop, radio, luggage rack and painted wheels. He used the car some in the first years that he owned it, and then put it in storage and driving it occasionally. Mr. Fagg, Sr. gave the car to his son, Raymond before he passed away only a couple of years ago. Ray, Jr. kept the car in a heated garage inside an inflated plastic bubble. In 2011, after a year of discussion, he finally agreed to let the car leave the family and Bluefield for the first time since 1964. The Cobra had only been driven 9,075 miles.

CSX2384 still has its original options, including the complete original tool kit. Shelley jack, jack handles, grease gun, etc. The car is complete with its original components as when it left the Shelby Princeton Avenue facility, including the original Princeton Avenue key fob.

All that has been done recently are items normally needed to bring the car back to original and safe running order - a little cleaning, tuning and replaced a nut-and-bolt here and there. Even though it did not come this way, the decision was left to leave the modified exhaust the way Mr. Fagg liked it in the sixties.
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A magazine article I found (maybe Vintage Motorsport?) only this week said the buyer was a car dealer (and Cobra collector) who traded Mr. Fagg's son a new (maybe 2010 or 2011) Boss 302 for it. I don't have the article but. looking at auction prices, I think even in 2011 a 289 Cobra one owner car was worth $500,000 so wouldn't it be worth more like 10 new Boss 302s or was the Boss 302 just a sweetener? Anyway at least the discovery of this car gives hope that one-owner cars are still out there, though the supply must be getting exceedingly thin....

[Fast289]

Well, they are from WV!!!

[mrmustang]

Originally Posted by Historybuff

A magazine article I found (maybe Vintage Motorsport?) only this week said the buyer was a car dealer (and Cobra collector) who traded Mr. Fagg's son a new (maybe 2010 or 2011) Boss 302 for it. I don't have the article but. looking at auction prices, I think even in 2011 a 289 Cobra one owner car was worth $500,000 so wouldn't it be worth more like 10 new Boss 302s or was the Boss 302 just a sweetener? Anyway at least the discovery of this car gives hope that one-owner cars are still out there, though the supply must be getting exceedingly thin....

Wally,

I believe the BOSS 302 was thrown in to sweeten the deal, but was not actually "the deal".


Bill S.