$3.75 Million for 1967 Cobra on Ebay

[A-Snake]

Originally Posted by Cobra #3170

This is a very interesting point, as I recall the SC's were created to get rid of race car chassis that were not selling and most, if not all, were sold in 1966 or later. For example, George Harm bought the Richard Smith car sometime in early 1966 and it was registered as a 1966 car by California DMV. At that time (1965/1966/1967) if you had a 1965 Cobra it was a 289. The race cars may have been considered 1965's but I don't know if any were registered as 1965 cars with any dept of motor vehicles since they were race cars, but some may have been. I have wondered where the 1965 designation came from unless it was related to the 3000 serial number vs.
3100 for 1966 and 3200 and 3300 for later cars. There is an advantage to a 1965 designation in that I don't believe it requires a PCV valve so that may be part of it. I am sure somebody on this Forum has the correct information and will share it with everyone. (The **** filter made me use Richard)

Comp cars, SC’s and street cars were not completed and invoiced to dealers or sold in CSX order.
A quick example is CSX3003. It’s the 1st (production) comp car by CSX# but the 7th completed. CSX3004 was the 1st completed.

There were a number of CSX30xx cars completed, invoiced to dealers and sold in 1965. Some sold in the first half of 1965. There are also some CSX31xx street cars sold in 1965. Well ahead of some remaining SC’s