Thats what I want to say, it´s a bad try from somebody who own it or want to sell it to make a 50.000 euro car to a million dollar cobra. It should be obvious for everybody who knows Cobra´s and Shelby´s.
To me, it isn't obvious, it is just very suspicious. It could be a completely reconstructed car from the remains of the original but I would just pass on what Ned once phrased to me, "Doug, I just want you to know that the car, is not what left Shelby American new".
With the availability of aluminum bodied "continuation cars" it is relatively easy to replace them by just installing the VIN tag, either the original or a reproduction, and what is more disturbing, it is probably legal and defendable by a team of expensive and aggressive attorneys?
I'd have to use the term "corruptibility" in description of the builders and legitimate sale of a car built to your specifications. Cash talks, nobody walks.
The Cobras have had several VIN tags installed and even Ned's SC was confusing to me with the addition of the "67" before the CSX on the tag. Those tags, even though original, looked phony to me.
When it was a fifty thousand dollar car, the consideration was less significant. I'd predict that someone is going to get killed over one of these sales, if it hasn't already happened? Anyone know of missing persons associated with Cobra sales?
Besides the fact that as Kopec says, "these cars are owned by Captains of Industry and you're not one of them", I don't even want to go near the "Cobra Corral" at the convention. They circle the wagons for a reason and the last time I approached it, they all started leaning on their side arms.
Apparently Cobra ownership has achieved new heights of exclusivity? So what do you folks do to drive them? Buy a private island?