Carroll Shelby

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Originally Posted by saturnkk

I own a A&C Kit Replica as I cannot afford an original Cobra.

I don't have a chip at all, seems some are very very defensive here. Wikipedia describes VIN fraud that I was refering to (not the 428 issues)
here:

Counterfeit Cobras

In 1993 the Los Angeles Times blew the lid off a Carroll Shelby scheme[10] to "Counterfeit" his own cars. With the price of an original 427 c.i. Cobra skyrocketing, Shelby had, by his own written declaration executed under penalty of perjury, caused the California Department of Motor Vehicles (the government agency responsible for titling vehicles and issuing operator permits) to utter [11] forty-three "Duplicate Titles" for vehicles that did not officially exist in company records. A letter from AC Cars confirmed the fact that the chassis numbers Shelby had obtained titles for were never manufactured, at least by AC Cars. Only fifty-five 427 c.i. Cobras had been originally produced out of a block of serial numbers reserved for 100 vehicles. Shelby had taken advantage of a loophole in the California system that allowed one to obtain a duplicate title for a vehicle only on a written declaration, without the vehicle identification number appearing in the DMV's database [12] or the declarant ever presenting an actual vehicle for inspection.[13] Shelby later admitted[14] that the chassis had been manufactured in 1991 and 92 by McCluskey Ltd, an engineering firm in Torrance, California, and were not authentic AC chassis.

AC Cobra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I guess I should have known better than to post this thread. Oh well...

Using a legal loophole is not VIN fraud, the fraud was when CS stated that he "found 100 original, unused chassis's in the back of his warehouse" when in fact they were newly produced chassis's.

Wilkpedia is only as accurate as the person who typed the description in as should never be taken 100% at face value.


Bill S.