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Originally Posted by Chook
Since we're on this topic, what's the latest on CSX 3303?
Weren't parts of the wreck pulled from the ocean and someone restoring it?
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It was reconstructed years ago as a right hand drive, quad weber car. The twin blown motor went into an award winning hot rod, but the engine block was recently purchased by the current owner of 3303. It is now converted back to LHD and has new blowers fitted, super snake hood fitted etc. While there's a clear paperwork trail of ownership of the car (or then at least the unusable scraps of tubes that once formed a chassis), nobody sees 3303 as an original 60s Cobra. It's all a reconstruction, including the body and chassis. If you have a VIN and a title, you can make magic happen!
A quote from Ned Scudder the SAAC guru from a few years back:
In the case of 3303, the wrecked chassis remains were sold to Gordon Gimbel in 1975 by Bob Sbarbaro, the person who acquired them from a scrap yard after Tony Maxey had his accident. Gimbel received a California pink slip for the car and sold the rights to it to Brian Angliss, who subsequently rebuilt it from the paperwork up. Given that the ownership trail is clear and well-documented, the reconstructed car is not properly termed an air-car, although it can accurately be called a reproduction.