AC Cobra

The 2021 auction market was quite extraordinary, with unprecedented levels of participation and sales. From cars to colt revolvers to multi-million-dollar NFTs, this sweeping look at the highlights is full of fascinating tales and astonishing prices.

The Cobra may be best known as a "Shelby," but it was British marque AC Cars that created it. Now that same marque is back with an innovative Cobra for the 21st century, a modern-day recreation powered by batteries.

There's something about a "barn find" that tickles the public's imagination. So it was exciting to find not one, but three, or maybe even four, million dollar barnfinds" are going to auction this week, and one of them is the barnfind made famous by Tom Cotter's book, The Cobra in the Barn.

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