First Shelby Cobra sells for record-setting $13.75 million | TopSpeed One

There’s a new reigning monarch for the most expensive American car ever sold at auction. And it’s a modified British sports car with a Ford V8 under the hood. Go figure. The roundish blue shape you see above is the 1962 Shelby 260 Cobra “CSX 2000” — a.k.a the first Cobra from lionized car...