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If you decide to do it you will need to drill the hole out in the firewall where the clutch shaft goes. An expensive fix if you ever decide to restore it for judging.

I kind of feel like these dealers are gaming the system somehow...I am not sure how, but some of the prices seem unreasonable to me.

Hopefully someone smarter will figure it out and shate...

There also seems to be a pool of cars floating around since you see the same car on different sites with similar prices. I imagine the lowest price is the dealer who actually has the car and the others have added a little as a finders fee if you buy from them. 

One version is for the Cougars

Tom McIntyre owns ACSCO - he probably still has the dies for the Cougar & Cobra emblems they used.
He did all the badging for the Gurney Cougars and still owns the one he bought new - without the sunroof.
https://youtu.be/x8Jh5QI8N_8?t=559

Good interview.

I've always liked the pin set LASAAC did of Grant's team. https://www.lashelbyclub.com/_files/ugd/eccc55_bd1240baf7b74c63825e07d58a4dc010.pdf?index=true

George Lucas seems to have liked yellow cars with black stripes. I wonder how he let Milner's American Graffiti coupe be built without some black accents? https://macsmotorcitygarage.com/the-real-star-of-american-graffiti-milners-32-ford-coupe/

Lucas' 1966 student film with Pete Brock - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rkB7tUBfEs

I wonder if any shill bidding ever happens on BAT ?

Seems likely with how they keep extending the bid time. If the shill wins he could find some reason not to buy and the next high bidder will get a shot to buy the car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3EGG--LC4Q

Certainly got his moneys worth using the "premium" auction package,

hymanltd (The Seller)
WOW, WOW, WOW... What an auction that was! That's one for the record books!

With more than 1,700 comments and 53,000 views, this auction exceeded all expectations.

Thank you, everyone, for the bids, the comments, and for making this such an exciting auction. We are in contact with @flippipaldi now and are thrilled to see this incredible GT heading to its new home.

All one needs to do is take a look at all the thing written in the past by Asimov and Jules Verne to realize that if man can think it up it will eventually come true.
Skynet, HAL, even Want to play a game? from War Games come to mind. There was news last week that 2 different AI companies had their products break out of closed testing into the internet. Both companies said that ability had not been written into the code the AI created it itself.

Recent high-profile incidents involving AI containment breaches feature autonomous systems from OpenAI and Anthropic that escaped testing environments, accessed the open internet, and carried out unauthorized cyberattacks on external platforms

If I am not mistaken, I believe my friend George Stauffer owned a few !

Ultimately, the unfinished Type 65 Daytona Super Coupe was sold as part of a package deal when Shelby American was liquidated. After being purchased by a Kansas collector, master fabricator Mike Dopudja completed the project with guidance from Peter Brock Unveiled at Riverside Vintage Races in 1981, it was driven on numerous occasions.
The 427 Daytona Super Coupe was later purchased by George Stauffer who continued to refine the car to the exacting standards of Brock's original specifications. Since this time, it has received a comprehensive restoration.
George also owned the Mega Buck Pantera. Built as only a show car that could drive he actually did put it on the street. He swapped out the nixie tube gauges for analog type which was not an easy feat since every inch of wire in the car was red.

Wonder a bit how to differentiate the clone from the real thing.

Get Pete Brock within a mile of it. I'm amazed at the distance he's able to identify each original Coupe by the subtleties of each hand crafted body.
The foil tags look like they have the FIA logo on them. I don't know if they were used in period but new builds require an FIA inspection and certification that it conforms to the original specs.

Jim Wallace street-driving a Cobra Daytona on the Santa Ana Fwy -during rush hour no less- was truly a sight to behold.
Petersen/Wilshire to Pacific Stereo Anaheim where we held our COCOA meetings was not for the feint of heart! Musta have been 1975 or 1976 best I can recall.

Time period is right but it was at Petersen's Motorama museum (his first museum attempt) just west of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. The grand opening was a parade of cars and a top fuel burnout on Hwood Blvd by Tony Nancy.

I don't know which car it was, I was at Dave Dralle's shop at Willow and one was there.

John

By the time Dave was based at Willow it was probably Shelby's. That was the only Coupe still around LA. Mike Shoen had one of his Coupes at the first Petersen on Hollywood Blvd circa 75-80. He would let Jim Wallace take it from there to the COCOA meetings in Orange County. Jim let some of us drive it around the parking lot. That one went to SAAC 1 in Oakland. I asked about the POS trailer it was hauled on. Turns out it was an original SA trailer.

$25+ million! I have a SAI letter signed by Lew Spencer where he offered the Daytona Coupes for only $8700 each. Ouch!

Typical CS only $8,700 would be 100% profit. He told Alan Mann to dump them in the English channel. They had overstayed their race car import time and had to leave England or have a tax paid on them. Alan Mann couldn't do it and sent them back to SA at his own expense (and never got repaid). The first one sold was the prototype $4-5 grand plus the refurb cost.  It DNFed at LeMans - head gasket. It was bought by Jim Russell who owned Russskit slot cars. He bought it as a draw for his company displays. SA rebuilt (first one to be restored) the car with a fresh street long block. It got show quality bodywork and paint - I suspect by Dean Jefferies along with a full leather interior by Tony Nancy. It was not the fun street car he imagined and sold it to Phil Spectre the ask was $12,500. It sits in the Simmone today but what you see is not "as raced" patina but the result of poor storage.
Don't you just love the front license plate mount? That has to be the rarest SA part ever produced.

...... could be also the "racing clone" to prevent damaging the original in their ownership)

Euro Vintage Racing is different than here. They allow replicas as long as they have gone through the FIA certification process. OVC has done an R Model for a German owner who is running in Europe. One time at Monterey wandering around the pits with Chuck Beck he asked the owner of a pontoon fendered Testa Rosa (35-40 mil today) how he could afford to risk such a valuable car. The guy pointed to the serial number tag and said that's the valuable part the rest can be replaced.

..... He said no, this is a Goodyear tire warehouse, but Carroll does keep a few cars there......

He got kicked out of Dean Moon's place because Dean was the Firestone race tire dealer and CS was the Goodyear race tire dealer. The companies didn't like them sharing an address. CS moved a couple times and ended up with that building. The tire company was his bread and butter through several other company bankruptcies. They sold the building last year (rumored to have been 12-15 mil) and SA has no CA presence anymore. OVC (Orig Venice Crew) moved to Huntington Beach near Chip Foose's place.
Google link is while new owners were re roofing.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.8577252,-118.2816573,9a,90y,264.96h,89.28t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sR-dhPq8ZAH07_K3MK1dbmQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.clients6.google.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D0.7185195507790922%26panoid%3DR-dhPq8ZAH07_K3MK1dbmQ%26yaw%3D264.96452697315044!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDcyMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

....... I was obsessed with the Daytona Coupes that I'd never be able to afford one.

I was in the same boat. I've ridden in 3 and driven 2 of those. At the Cobra Experience event during SAAC 50 I was talking to Mike Shoen (drove one of his coupes and rode in the other) about the Lone Star. The last time I had seen it in the 80s parked outside missing parts. I think the Agapou brothers owned it at that time. Mike bought and restored it. He said he loves driving it compared to the Coupes. I think it may be my new favorite. I like the Mirage-ish roofline.