The $42.9 million Shelby Daytona Coupe made American cars blue-chip. It didn't lift the rest
Eleven weeks after Gooding Christie's sold Carroll Shelby's own Daytona Coupe, CSX2300, for $42.9 million, the record still stands nearly twice as high as any other American car. It shows that America now has blue-chip collector cars. It doesn't show that every 1960s American car is worth more.