CSX3242The consignor acquired the car from the Shelby Family Museum in 2025Originally used by Manhasset Ford in New York as a demonstratorSold to its first owner, Stuart Hyiam of New York in 1967After a few years of ownership, Hyiam took a potential buyer on a test drive and the "buyer" pulled a gun and stole the carThe thief owned a wrecker firm that had acquired another 427 Cobra, CSX3041, which had been totaled out by an insurance companyThe thief ground out some of the car's VIN stamps and tried to pass the car off as CSX3041Eventually the forgery was uncovered and in 1991 the vehicle was properly re-titled as CSX3242, "3242" was still stamped on all of the latchesThe car was previously owned in the 1980s by Ferrari F1 driver Didier Pironi, winner of the 1978 24 Hours of Le MansMechanical restoration performed by Don Roberts, converting the car to 427 S/C specs with an extremely rare dual-plane, dual-quad, tunnel port intake system, only a handful of which were originally made for ...