[Trevor Legate]

I never said He didn't create it (but what car did he use to create it?) I just said that 'the car' was sold in all markets other than the USA as an AC Cobra. It was never an issue then, so it cannot be an issue worth discussing now. It's a statement of fact.

Every 'AC Cobras' was built and completed at the Thames Ditton factory, as AC were entitled to do. (Read the first Shelby American sales brochure :-) When I was at college I saw (and heard) these beautiful sports cars coming and going from Ken Rudds showroom and they were called AC Cobras. I knew the cars that were shipped to the USA were Shelby Cobras 'cos I read it in Autocar. The 427 was only ever a Shelby Cobra, because AC stopped producing cars for the UK market for about two years, which was a bummer as I loved the original car, but as a poor art student it was waay over my non-existent budget.

Had C$ dropped the V8 into an Aston Martin, the UK and European version would have been called the Aston Martin Cobra, or maybe Jensen Cobra, Austin-Healey Cobra.....no?