09-29-2012, 04:14 AM
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Senile Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Buffalo, NY USA,
NY
Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance
Posts: 4,573
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FWB
i can't imagine a cobra is its own pattern.....it must be the same as an AC Bristol right....what else is it the same as....the brit car manufacturers in the 50's shared vendors.....its not a very Big place over there only so many manufacturers of glass, lights etc......
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Ah, but it is.
The Cobra glass is the same as the late AC Ace with the curved windscreen (the standard Ace was flat, the curved screen was an option). The early Aces had a different pattern, the last of the Aces which had the AC Greyhound grille turned upside-down (the Cobra 260/289 grille) are the Cobra pattern.
Yes, AC was a "parts-bin" specialist; MG door latches, Morris lamps, MGB steering racks, etc. but the glass was unique. Beclawat ( Beclawat Manufacturing Inc.) was one of the windscreen frame suppliers that AC fitted the glass into.
Absolutely not the same as an MGA glass.
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