[Harpoon PV2]

Ford, Shelby and AC came to an agreement on the Cobra, that after the cars were homologated, AC would provide Cobra's to the rest of the world. The first cars were pure racers, and had the prefix, CS, as was customary with AC, but no badges. The street 289 MKII were COB or COX, C for Cobra, O for Other, (other then LA or NY) B for right hand drive, and X as always, export. The Hurlock's were getting tired of Carroll, so they called the cars, AC Cobra, with the Cobra badge on the nose and the AC script on the boot. The later AC289 had AC script badges front and back. Of course, that was many owners ago! Funny side note, the AC 428 Frua's were prefix CF, Cobra Frua, go figure, since the car was never called Cobra! Cheers, Dennis