I was reading the thread regarding Autoweek being gone and found the old classified ads interesting. Then I spied one in particular:
The first Cobra for sale on this ad is my wife's uncle Carl. So I reached out to him and sent him a copy of the ad. He responded by saying that he was given the Cobra as a gift for Christmas when he was just 17. He walked out into the garage to find it with a bow attached. He says it spoiled his Christmases ever since.
After racing with it for a few years, he used the above ad to sell it for $6500. He was contacted within the last year by the guy who bought it from him back then. The guy rarely drove the car as the value went up. He asked if Carl wanted to know the price he sold it for. It was $1,000,064.
Carl thanked me for sending the ad as he had fogotten what serial number. Then he tells me the first race car he had was an original Ford GT350R (one of the 34). He sold that for $3500. It turns out that these are now worth upwards of a million.
Wow.