Real '65 Shelby 427 Cobra Competition Stops By Jay Leno's While Fleeing Wildfire

The 1965 Cobra Mark III 427 Competition models were a major flop at the time of their creation. That’s history – partly because they missed the homologation window for the 1965 season and were not raced by the official Shelby team. Another reason for their lack of success at the time is that only some of them were legal to use both on and off the street.

One such example is the CSX 3010 unit that landed for a while in Jay Leno’s possession after an unfortunate encounter with the forces of nature. According to the story shared by our host, the black Cobra Competition model (valued at around $2.5 million by Jay) is owned by a company called Putnam Leasing, and had to run away from the devastating West Coast wildfires that rage in California these days.