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Old 09-22-2008, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by 1ntCobra View Post
AC while still under the Herlock's (sp?) ownership was offering to sell replacement bodies and chassis for a variety of Cobra body styles made from the original tooling.
McCluskey, who was involved in buying bodies and chassis from the UK back then, confirmed a long time ago that AC had a good relationship with Angliss and was intending on simply marketing Brian's 427 panels. It appears that to avoid the extra middle man cost, everyone just simply went directly to Angliss and AC never became a player. I recall AC may have still supplied some 289 panels by that time, because some of the small block bucks were still around, but their 427 panel effort died in the 60's.
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