Cobra fans were jumping around like excited school kids back in January when Carroll Shelby’s own 427 Cobra went under the hammer at Mecum’s Kissimmee auction. The restored 1966 car, CSX3178, changed hands for a cool $5.94m – big money, but then what could be better than a Cobra owned by the man who created the legend. Well, how about Carroll Shelby’s own Cobra Daytona? This 1965 Daytona Coupe, chassis CSX 2469, is up for grabs through auction house Worldwide, though it’s being offered as a private sale, rather than via auction. Shelby and designer Peter Brock created the Daytona by grafting a slippery fastback body onto the Cobra chassis to improve its top speed and give it a better chance against rivals like Ferrari, whose 250 GTO was significantly quicker on the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans.