[Dan Case]

Tags on original tank assemblies have McCord's number for them and a date code. Original production tanks were made and dated between roughly early summer 1963 and late spring 1964. I have not done a survey on dates so I don’t know how late production tanks got dated. Based on engine part orders the works must have rounded up parts to make all the last cars complete between about August and September 1964. Most cars were running before 1965 started.

Some of the last production dated assemblies that I know of have been found as service parts so finding a late tank on an earlier car (maybe a May 1964 tank on an August 1963 car) just means the car got a new tank for some reason in the past. There were also post production service tanks made. I have seen a new old replacement stock (NORS) assembly tank dated in the third quarter of 1966.

One of the people making new assemblies chose for some reason to install tags dated after all Cobra production was over, i.e. they copied a post production service part.

I have noticed two different makers of reproductions using the same date code on their tags.

Dan