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WSU 539, per ACOC's Ace Register, is BEX 1040 princess blue ex works 22 December 1958 for sale in France. The car is now in Sussex, England.

RS
ACOC Cobra registrar

This is from the ACOC's Forum (www.acownersclub.co.uk/forum) three weeks ago:

"'On offer is a huge part of racing history! An original 1964 AC Cobra, 289 USRRC race car. This has been owned by my client for nearly « 40 » years. Authentic and ready! Raced at all of the amazing USA tracks as you would expect!...........'
This was sold as a road car in 1980 with 'chrome wires, front end damage, new body panels included' and then 427ised for vintage racing. As the USRRC only ran from 1963 to 1968, its exclamatory description would appear to miss the mark."

RS

[CSX2450]

CSX2450 was destroyed in December 1966 in a workshop fire in Fairfield, Iowa, together with many other vehicles. Fifty plus years later a Cobra that is claimed to be 2450 has appeared in France.

Any information on this car, which would appear to have originated in France, would be much appreciated.

Robin Stainer
ACOC Cobra Registrar
rstainer@radcothouse.co.uk
44-1367 810231

Ned and others say it all, the east-of-pond additional facts merely being in confirmation:
  -No 3122 car or parts of car have ever been reported to have come to the UK.
  -No 3122 replica has ever been reported to have been constructed here or abroad.
  -No 3122 'original old UK title paper' is known to the UK's DVLA (Driver & Vehicle Licencing Agency) or AC Owners' Club.

Robin Stainer
AC Owners' Club Cobra Registrar

Ned,

Buyers only seek history if they want it.

Inquiries so far have drawn a blank. Further I've yet to find record of any 60s or early 70s Carreras Colombia motor race event. Any help from the Americas (the last being from Guatemala) would be much appreciated.

RS

The SAAC has no record of this car after the mid 60s and the ACOC's only record is of a UK-constructed RHD Replica completed as car in the mid 80s (firstly registered AFM 42A, then RSW 11).

It is now claimed that CSX2232 went to Colombia where it was raced in the 'Carrera Colombia' and then came 'to the UK in a very bad way in the 70s'. If anyone can provide authoritative evidence to support (a) 2232's existence in Colombia in the late 60s or early 70s and (b) 2232's 70s import to the UK' the ACOC's Thames Ditton Cobra Registrar would be grateful.

The car is now registered 27 PE with UK's Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, with 'date of first registration' shown as March 1990 and 'vehicle make' as AC Cobra.

Thanks for your help.

Robin Stainer
AC Owners' Club Cobra Registrar

[COB6043]

It could well be COB6043 (silver, flared wheel arches, chrome roll bar, bonnet scoop, wire wheels etc).

RS

[CSX2238]

It's CSX2238, last recorded owner Dr Jochen Weißhaupt. I'll try to track him down again; Lorne Samaha was in touch with me early in 2013, but my then enquiries weren't fruitful.

Robin Stainer
AC Owners' Club Cobra Registrar

PS: Ned's 'perfect copy' is being kind. All race-leading FIA HTP 'historic' cobras use modern technology to achieve performance much in excess of the original: 90+ more bhp, 300% more torsional stiffness (roadsters) and up to 100kg (220lbs) less weight.

RS

[VIN Asserted]

If this 'Daytona' is the one Kenny Brack drove before at Goodwood, the ACOC Cobra Register Replicas Appendix (on the internet for members) records it as: VIN Asserted CSX2300 [Clone], Date 2010, Additional Information Body, substructure and some chassis components built by Lech Kowalski. Car finished and race-prepared by Lanzante Ltd. FIA HTP. [Lech Kowalski, Max Karlsson, Dean Lanzante] (Clone of the existing original)

RS
ACOC Cobra Registrar

Tom,

The brokerage site's facts are broadly correct. The ACOC Register, on the internet for Club members, reports this replica cobra as completed in 1995 and "Built by Kimmins Custom Fabrication, Cal, reportedly incorporating some original parts. LHD. FIA-style body. (Not an AC VIN) ".

AC never assigned Identification Number COB5998 to a vehicle or part-vehicle and the current vehicle's dash-plate asserts 'Manufactured by Shelby American Inc', not AC. The 'COB5998' Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) was 'assigned' thirty years later, but not by AC or Shelby American.

RS

A California dealer offers for sale a vehicle described as a 1964 (sometimes 1965) 'Ford 289 Shelby Cobra s/n COB5998'. This vehicle has an AC rather than Shelby American VIN and is categorised by the AC Owners' Club as a Replica completed in 1995.

Please email me for the ACOC's public-domain findings if you would like further information.

Robin Stainer
ACOC Cobra Registrar