Jul 1, 2001 · She was Donna O'Hara, 54, a divorced woman who had worked for 13 years at a Sears merchandise-distribution center in Santa Ana. One tried to imagine what madness had led her to this.

Apr 12, 2017 · It didn’t take long for the rumors to start as to what happened to this Shelby. Some claimed that it had been destroyed, while others that Carroll Shelby had it hidden away somewhere. In reality, Donna had it hidden in a storage unit in …

On October 22, 2000, Donna O’Hara went under a bridge, her rabbits in hand, on a horse trail in Fullerton, poured gasoline on herself and lit it. It took her 15 hours to die.

Apr 1, 2002 · The Cobra, one of Carroll Shelby's racers that knocked Ferrari off its high horse in the '60s, had been in storage almost 20 years in Anaheim when rare-car scouts descended after the suicide...

Jul 23, 2019 · Brand gave the car to his daughter, Donna O’Hara, who then did the unthinkable – she hid it away in a California storage unit. Hidden treasure

May 20, 2001 · Brand, who reportedly paid $1,000 for it, eventually gave the car to his daughter, Donna O'Hara, and her husband John.

Apr 11, 2018 · It was presumed destroyed until it was found in a private storage unit in 2001 after the owner, Donna O’Hara, committed suicide by lighting herself on fire. That’s the dark part of this car ...

Mar 18, 2001 · In the five months since O’Hara, 56, burned herself to death on a Fullerton horse trail, her friends and relatives have become embroiled in a bitter lawsuit over rival claims to the rare 1964 ...

The key issue is who owned the car following the suicide last year of Donna O'Hara, who had kept the legendary Cobra in storage for nearly 30 years. Longtime family friend Kurt Goss of Anaheim said O'Hara, who lived in La Habra, gave him the car a few days before she burned herself to death Oct. 22 on a Fullerton horse trail.

All trace of CSX2287 was lost by the mid-1970s, with car historians and collectors fearing the car had been destroyed. In 2001 the car was rediscovered in a rental storage unit in California. The owner Donna O’Hara had committed suicide by burning herself alive. The car had remained undiscovered for almost 30 years.