so that 1965 cobra has so much meaning uh to me um the the story behind getting that car
is i won an xfinity race in 2017 at talladega for uh bill and laurie denvesti and fred biaggi
and we're so glad that bill and laurie and bestie are joining us with it and they are excited as
as we are about it and i can't wait to see how much money we can raise for this car wow we had
erica morello proud to be standing here next to you everybody knows latin that everybody who loves
nascar loves this guy and we've got a very special guest who writes shotgun every once in a while
aaron shelby give him a great round of applause folks going to do something really special here
thank you absolutely good greg well this is uh amazing opportunity for my wife and i so as you
saw in the video we received this car as a trophy after winning a nascar xfinity race at talladega
and i've had it for the last five years and i've enjoyed it i've taken my kids to get ice
cream in it a few times haven't put that many miles on it always wanted to make sure that i
kept it clean and tonight we've got an amazing opportunity we're so blessed along with bill and
lori dinbesti to donate this car to mayo clinic mayo clinic means so much to so many people
yeah absolutely and i know so many people so many friends so many family
that have gone through mayo clinic and embattled cancer and other medical conditions and
mayo clinic is just an amazing place i've experienced it from my good friends at tillers
and we've got dr gray and his wife catherine here tonight here the ceo of scottsdale they are
doing a 700 million dollar expansion project here in scottsdale called arizona bold ford
and when i found out about that from my good friends the tillers my wife and i thought of
a way we could give back to mayo because mayo means so much to us and this was the best idea
we could come up with and we thought this was pretty cool to have this opportunity we're so
blessed so fortunate to have it and we hope it raises a lot of money for mayo clinic tonight
well thank you very much for coming here we've wanted to do a car for mayo clinic
a lot of our great customers come here get their physicals but they've saved my life so i have a
personal attention to this so craig also folks this car was actually built i mean this is this
is the real deal they took this thing made it into what it is the gentleman standing next to me
grandfather did a lot of great things in his life but i'll tell you the heritage that he
leaves behind so again you're getting something very very special and the guy that knows how to
drive fast and knows a good car and he sees one that's it well i just i'm i'm like i said
i'm super blessed to have this opportunity so thankful to barrett-jackson to partner with you
guys to to auction this car uh when i found out that we were gonna auction it and you guys told
me that every dollar is raised we'll go to mayo clinic made me that much more excited
so just really appreciate your partnership and can't wait to see what happens so thank you guys
well indeed we have to understand what we're looking at here the original cobra 427 was one of
the craziest power to weight ratios on the planet with 427 cubic inches well this has 482 cubic
inches of ford fe and this is fiberglass perhaps a little bit lighter so as wild as the originals
were this takes it to another level yeah that 582 cubic inches pumps out 540 horsepower and once
again when you think about a power to weight ratio there's some serious performance there but it just
breaks all the way around up in the nose here you can see a couple of radiators the upper one is for
the engine the lower one these bits are fittings that's the lower radiator for the oil cooler
remember once again every penny going to the mayo clinic
for up to 200 000 there's a mayo clinic in rochester minnesota and there's also a mayo clinic
here in arizona in addition to the main facility the clinic itself they've got a hospital in
north scottsdale and they mention the fact that they're raising a lot of money for an expansion
and this is going to make a big dent right now current bid 225 000.
2017 that's a race reference
and also we'll have to shift the title anyway so that's not a problem all right
270. you think about it it's pretty cool it's got
all those connections it's being sold here at bear exactly it was
it's got a great connection to so many things
280 000 the bid the winning bid for a 1965 shelby continuation 6000 series car
with every penny going to the mayo clinic
we're here with another wonderful charity moment celebrating about jackson's 50th and what i took
out of what we were talking about on stage is very personal this is your personal car but
the mayo clinic is also very personal to you tell me about your intention to donate a personal car
to this course well we just we've had so many friends and family that have gone through
mayo clinic that have battled cancer or other medical conditions and to hear their experience
and the care that they received and then the friends that i have that are huge advocates
the tillers that live out here huge advocates for mayo clinic i ended up watching the mayo
clinic documentary on an airplane one time and it just talked about how the the mayo brothers
from from the very beginning founded their hospital on putting the patients needs first
and it just resonated with me and my wife we've become you know executive health members with mayo
clinic since and to see it firsthand and get that experience of really the patients needs are first
it's an incredible place they do wonderful things and they deserve it really and it's an amazing
place dr gray here the ceo of uh of mayo clinic here in scottsdale the expansion project that
they have and the vision they have for the future is unbelievable out here in scottsdale and so we
wanted to find a way we could help and this was the best idea we could come up with yeah wonderful
dr gray a wonderful donation um to go towards the redevelopment but of course you know having
someone like eric get behind this and get in behind the mayo must be very exciting yeah
it's so meaningful to us we're so appreciative to to eric to mr jackson to the to the whole
team that put this on but especially to eric and his family this means so much to us as we try to
bring hope and healing to patients especially those with serious or complex health conditions
and all the efforts we're trying to put into their lives to have them recognize that need
and try and help meet that need and it really is a triple win because it's the donation but it's also
the visibility and it gives a shot in the arm to our staff who have worked so hard the last
two years during the pandemic and they love to be appreciated and see that someone like eric amarola
appreciates the vision for what we're doing at mayo clinton yeah it's wonderful i think this
is a very personal obviously charity auction for you as well craig you're so committed to charity
but in particular maya was something yes mayo i was racing in monterey putting my helmet on and i
felt something in my throat went to mayo biopsied it and within a few days i was getting operated
on so they did a wonderful job and great people there can't say enough about maya
and aaron shelby just on behalf of the buyers who didn't want to come out this afternoon
they're going to enjoy such a wonderful vehicle they really are the csx 2000 427 cobra is great
yeah i think they're going to have a lot of fun with it i know eric said he has it's iconic and
to be able to have shelby and barrett-jackson work together again on some charity this is
fantastic the mayo clinic's a a great uh beneficiary of this yeah it's wonderful so
thank you all around eric and thank you for everyone we'll take it back up to the block