In the beginning--Cobra beginning, that is--Shel stuffed an American V8 with transmission into a little 'ole English car and attached it to a Jag center section with rear suspension intact. The second iteration was basically the same car with an improved front suspension widened and buldged here and there so it would accept an even bigger engine.
Carrying this further into our present discussion, if a replica, knockoff, repro or whatever you want to call it is made to SIMULATE the "original" or "real" Cobra, then using my logical, but devious mind, why can't the real thing be referred to as a "cobble job", modified AC or what we commonly refer to as a HOTROD!
Now look at it this way: If we take that same American engine and trans and hook it up to a Jag rear end, which is what the "real" Cobra is in the first place, and surround it with a frame to hold all this stuff together and cover it with a plastic with pretty much the same shape or sometimes aluminium as the English call it, isn't it as much of a Cobra and the "real" thing? More practical, I might add.
Just a thought.
