AC Continuation or Kirkham

[london]

Originally Posted by KevinW

I reckon I can make better footboxes than that.

Kevin, I'll leave you to tell Gus!

Whats'aCobra - an additional Kirkham or one to replace CSX 3058?

[KevinW]

Originally Posted by london

Kevin, I'll leave you to tell Gus!

Whats'aCobra - an additional Kirkham or one to replace CSX 3058?

i'll post some pics when ive more time.

[london]

Originally Posted by KevinW

i'll post some pics when ive more time.

I'm looking forward to seeing the Crendon.

In the meantime, here's a link to one of AC Heritage's latest 427s, COB 5014:

Galleries

[B.M.B.C]

Originally Posted by london

I'm looking forward to seeing the Crendon.

In the meantime, here's a link to one of AC Heritage's latest 427s, COB 5014:

Galleries

How would a car like that cost to build?

Cheers

[london]

I've heard figures of at least £160,000 ($261,000) mentioned.

[Historybuff]

I read all the postings in this subject area, but there was no ref. to where Alan Lubinsky went after he decamped from Malta, and some U.S. state (Delaware?) where some government entity had facilitated him setting up production. The last I saw the AC badge being used in an advertisement was for a kit car called the Venom, sort of a highly stylized take on the Cobra 427, very beautiful but not attempting to be a reproduction. It may be made in South Africa (isn't that where Lubinsky is from?) I assumed the use of the AC badge in that ad was only as sort of a "recommendation" as one author is often quoted on the cover of another author's book, not that Lubinsky is producing the Venom.

[Historybuff]

I think California fostered this mess by allowing sometime back any resident of their state to buy a kit Cobra and to call it a Cobra on the title and even to stamp on their own serial number. (which is why, if the DMV would sell you the list of Cobra owners, it would be several thousand cars longer than it should be if only confined to CSX2000 and CSX3000 cars).
Ironically by the way the Department of Motor Vehicles will still sell you an owner's name based on the license plate number you give them but now they write the owner first asking for permission--a law enacted after some stalker murdered a TV starlet whose address he bought from the DMV.
But where some previous postings in this subject area tell of a dealer taking a continuation car or reproduction and advertising it as an A.C. Cobra --that ought to be a crime. If these dealers (and auction companies ) are not stopped from doing so, I predict it could lead to some nasty repercussions at the big auctions, similar to when one auction company sold an Auto Union race car only to find out it was only assembled of parts--they then decided to get out of the car auction business altogether! I wish there was a registrar in the Cobra world as well versed as Marcel Massini in the Ferrari world who can be counted on to regularly poke holes when what he views as a "false" Ferrari is put on sale or display.

[Mark IV]

Originally Posted by Historybuff

I read all the postings in this subject area, but there was no ref. to where Alan Lubinsky went after he decamped from Malta, and some U.S. state (Delaware?) where some government entity had facilitated him setting up production. The last I saw the AC badge being used in an advertisement was for a kit car called the Venom, sort of a highly stylized take on the Cobra 427, very beautiful but not attempting to be a reproduction. It may be made in South Africa (isn't that where Lubinsky is from?) I assumed the use of the AC badge in that ad was only as sort of a "recommendation" as one author is often quoted on the cover of another author's book, not that Lubinsky is producing the Venom.

Wally,

There is this thing called "Google"...most all of your questions can be answered with a little research there.

Conn. was where he tried to snag some govt. money (pleased to say I helped the New York Times blow that deal out of the water!). Then it was Michigan with the Waco Aircraft guy. Now Germany with a kit car based "AC".

Delaware is where his holding company that controls all of the I.P. and trademarks is registered.

Let your fingers do the typing and don't expect the posters here to do all of your research..........