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"An 800-horsepower that was once the personal car of racing legend Carroll Shelby has sold for $5.5 million at the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Associated Press reported.   The sale of the 1966 Shelby Cobra &amp;quot;Super Snake&amp;quot; brought a packed house to its feet Saturday at the auction after a pair of bidders drove the price up. The winning bidder was car collector Ron Pratt of Chandler, Arizona. Last year, he paid $4.32 million for the Futureliner, one of 12 futuristic buses used for shows in the 1940s and &amp;#039;50s by General Motors Corp.   Shelby, 84, who created the Cobra in the &amp;#039;60s using engines and a British sport car chassis, said he built the Super Snake \u2014 with twin superchargers on a 427-cubic-inch V-8 \u2014 and drove it for years.   &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a special car. It would do just over three seconds to 60 (mph), 40 years ago,&amp;quot; Shelby told the crowd before the sale. &amp;quot;I killed a buzzard with it,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;Nasty, nasty.&amp;quot;   Barrett-Jackson said the $5.5 million price tag for the Cobra is a world record for American cars, although others have sold at auction for more than $11 million.   Top six selling cars:   1966 Shelby Cobra 427 &amp;quot;Carroll Shelby&amp;#039;s Personal Supersnake&amp;quot;: $5,500,000   1954 Dodge Firearrow II Convertible Concept Car: $1,100,000   1954 Dodge Firearrow IV Convertible Concept Car:$1,100,000   1993 Hummer H1 &amp;quot;CNN&amp;#039;s Warrior One&amp;quot;: $1,000,000   1966 Shelby Cobra 427: $935,000   1969 Chevrolet Camaro: $880,000 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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