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Originally Posted by BE911SC
He had it for about a day. He drove it around the block, it scared him, and then his wife Camille said no, have them come get it.
Cosby was a Ferrari guy at the time and, the story goes, ran into Carroll Shelby at the supermarket one night. Shelby busted Cosby's nuts for driving that I-talian car and said he'd send over something really fast. That's where the 427 twin-turbo Super Snake came in and that's where Cosby got his material for his "200 MPH" album. The car, there were two built, was a real handful and they had trouble getting the C-6 automatic to function properly with the turbo'd 427. Payton Cramer, Shelby's local dealer, took one out onto the 405 one afternoon and while clicking along at about 70 he pressed down on the gas pedal and the car kicked-down into Low and the car spun several times. It came to a stop in the median facing the wrong direction. Cramer got out and walked back to Shelby American and told the shop guys to take a truck and go get it, it was too wild to drive. The Cosby car, if memory serves, was wrecked, fatally, and the other stayed with Shelby until 2007 when it sold to Ron Pratt for 5.5 million.
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Thanks, makes a good story. I think I read somewhere the VIN plate from the the crashed Cosby car ended up on a similar car in England, right hand drive, 427 etc.
The other good story is the lost Coupe which Phil Spectre once owned.