AC Continuation or Kirkham

[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.