The 2004 Ford Shelby Cobra idea is headed to public sale. The one-off drivable idea automotive impressed by the legendary Cobra roadster will cross the block at Mecum public sale in Monterey, California, scheduled for Aug. 12-14.

Codenamed “Daisy,” the Shelby Cobra idea debuted on the 2004 Detroit auto present. Since 2017, it has been owned by Chris Theodore, one of many designers who labored on it.

This idea was a product of the retro craze that swept the auto trade within the Nineties and early 2000s. Ford had already launched a brand new Thunderbird with retro styling by the point the Cobra idea debuted. Ford subsequently launched variations of the GT and Mustang with styling impressed by their Nineteen Sixties predecessors. Ford additionally constructed the Shelby GR1 concept in 2004 as a contemporary tackle the Shelby Daytona Coupe race automobiles of the Nineteen Sixties.

In contrast to most idea automobiles, the Cobra is absolutely drivable. It is powered by a 6.4-liter V-10, which, just like the automotive itself, by no means made it to manufacturing. Different parts had been sourced from the Ford GT, which was present process growth on the time.

Cobra creator Carroll Shelby gave the undertaking his blessing, and drove the automotive for publicity photographs (even doing a little donuts), however he probably did not have a lot engineering enter. Shelby’s involvement was symbolically essential, although, as this marked the primary time he’d labored with Ford for the reason that glory days of the unique Cobra within the Nineteen Sixties.

Theodore paid $825,000 for the Cobra in 2017. Mecum would not present pre-auction estimates, however when Theodore and the Cobra appeared on Jay Leno’s Garage lately, automotive appraiser Donald Osborne stated the Cobra was price $1.5 million. The automotive is not avenue authorized, nevertheless, and the public sale itemizing notes that it have to be offered to an out-of-state purchaser, probably due to California emissions guidelines.