It's a long story but twobjshelbys = Two Barrett Jackson Shelby(GT)s.
In 2008 I bought two Barrett Jackson Limited Edition Shelby GTs. I almost bought a Ford GT but there was some personal business involved in getting 2 x 1/2 price cars
Both were convertibles, sequential VIN numbers, one with an automatic and one with a 5 speed.
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We donated one of them - the 5-speed with about 300 miles, almost all of them driving from Vegas to Phoenix - after having it converted to a GT/SC with a Kenne Bell supercharger - at the Barrett Jackson Scottsdale auction with full proceeds to the Shelby Foundation. It was all about a family thing.
At that auction I bought a Shelby CSX Cobra. Loved it, wife hated it.
I kept the automatic and we put close to 8000 miles on it before I sold it - I do drive my cars. It was sold privately to a guy in Florida who sold it at the Barrett Jackson Florida auction last winter. He did some very tasteful mods and got a dang good price for it.
I bought the GT, after I sold the Cobra, in Oct 2011. The boss will at least ride in the GT
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She did tell me that she wished we'd kept the Mustang. It was a hoot to drive (with 500+ HP, more than a GT500 of the same year, and lighter and with a better suspension) and quite comfortable on long trips, the difference over the GT being it had a real trunk with a place to put a suitcase
PS. It wasn't the Barrett Jackson tag that got me interested, it was the black with red stripes color combo. I loved it. Ford did the GT500 in that color scheme the next year, and if I'd known, I probably would have waited (and blown the family deal) and I wouldn't have a GT - it was all about butterflies flapping their wings