Were you the guy who, when Cobras arrived at Shelby's shop, peeled off the AC badge and put in their placeon the Shelby badge? History's against you, they were sold as A.C.Cobras. Plus part of the deal with A.C. is they could market their own versions as A,V. Mk. III. I even consider the A.C.Mk.IVs as Cobras.
I m going to try to post an AC Mk.IV brochure cover, it says made by Autokraft who took over AC factory from A.C. Cars
It doesn't matter now. It's what the "Registry" calls them. Talk to Ned. He's got the clout now.
No I'm not that guy and yes I know the story.
Shelby was great at diplomacy until he got litigation happy. That was one of his charms. Diplomacy, not litigation.
I only saw two COB's personally. Both in the early '70s. One was right hand drive and had AC medallions on it. No Cobra stuff.
The other one was left hand drive with AC on the steering wheel and Cobra on the nose. I do not know the chassis numbers but one was from Mass. Graham somebody. Wren. That's it, Graham Wren. Ned's got them in the Registry...somewhere.
I don't remember the other ones owner.
I forget which was which. No digital cell phone cameras back then unfortunately and before you say it, yes, memories can be a little blurry these days.
"We" just referred to the COB's as the Brit's version. Shelby was still hiding on safaris in Africa so he wasn't around yet to ask about it.
We were 427 "happy" here at the time. A small block in a "427 chassis" was not in favor...yet.