More or less, one of the largest American automobile auctions this fall has concluded. As the weekend came to a close at the Barrett-Jackson event in Houston, Texas, the top twelve best-selling cars fetched a combined price of more than $7.6 million.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fords stole the show during the auction, with five GTs from different model years making the top twelve and contributing over half of the aforementioned total. Including three Mustangs and an F-100, the total number of valued Blue Oval machines is nine. Two Chevrolet Corvettes and the Porsche 928 driven by Tom Cruise in the 1983 film Risky Business are the only non-Blue Oval vehicles on this exclusive list.

Among the Mustangs, one stands out: a 1966 Shelby GT350 that legendary racing car driver Sir Stirling Moss used extensively in vintage events.

This particular Shelby is number 89 out of 252 GT350s manufactured that year; it features an R-Spec upgrade with a 4.6-liter V8 engine and a 4-speed manual transmission.

Using it, Moss won the Targa Tasmania in Australia and raced it on nine different European tracks from 1991 to 1997. Legend has it that this was the driver’s preferred car for classic racing.

The vehicle was described as “incredibly well-documented and ready to go” before it was put up for auction. Included in the package was a DVD featuring Moss and his wife Susie discussing the model’s history, images from Moss’s personal archive, a letter from “Shelby engineer Phil Remington confirms the car’s R-code details,” and Moss’s autograph inside the trunk.

The fact that it was able to command a price of $495,000 was sufficient to propel the vehicle to the #4 spot among Houston’s best-selling machines. Nobody knows who bought it, so it’s anybody’s guess whether it will be racing soon or put back up for auction.