What'saCobra never said, claimed or believed that AC was the "driving force" behind the Cobra. It was CS's idea.
Does that help relieve the angst?
Reading the thread should evidence my plain spoken view that CS and his entourage of youthful panting 427-fixated kit owners from time to time forget the huge team of talent, bags of FORD money and AC's history and fabrication skills ALL contributed to executing the Cobra (the name of a late fifties Chris Craft speed boat very popular in California), and then make outlandish claims and even, lord forgive, errors of fact regarding the cars, their history and the people who broke their butts getting it done correctly and CS's real inputs. Do you think they were all just "hirelings?"
There are plenty of examples of homologation papers being filed by second or third parties, so that is not a necessary proof, but merely reflects an acurate history of the homologation process that was used.
Why should Hurlock protest? His cars were being homologated for free. He was a penny pinching tightwad whose design/delivery cycle was measured in decades, when he was paying attention between tea breaks, like most of Britain at the time.
Will you kindly recall that AC continued to build and sell beautiful and complete cars as 289 MarkIII's long after CS. SA and FORD bailed? Were they "manufactured" by SA? Or were the British Type Certificates properly showing the manufacturer as AC? Of course, the latter.
AC continued to experiment and build other exotic cars, like the MarkIII based Frua, etc, but never sold many.
And didn't Angliss continue the production until way into the 90's, while Shel' was swapping hearts for pete's sake?
Even Lubinsky (shudder) built some 427's (on the QT), Carbon fiber bodied cars, supercharged engine cars, etc.
In fact, Price's FIA by AC arrived all painted in the USA at least nine months ago and was mostly ignored (except by Shel at the Amelia Island display, who went apoplectic and almost needed O2).
If old Shel' doesn't think the AC name is worth a flea's twat, why is he sniffing and shuffling around with a Lubinsky to set up something like the old AC source system? Hmmm?
Just follow the "munny" guys (thanks Trev.)
Just a little more fair and balanced, aye?
What'saCobra has lived with real cars in the garage for over 40 years, loves the old chicken murderering farmer and hasn't forgetten nuttin'.
