When is a genuine Shelby no longer a Shelby

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Originally Posted by Ron61

The SAAC Registry of 08 addresses this but it really doesn't clear anything up. When it was registered in California, per the 08 registry it was registered as CSX 3106 instead of CSX 3016 and then later on changed back to 3016. It also seems to question if the shock tower so many are talking about is really the original or one from some other car. To many unknowns to really know if this is a Cobra that can legally be called an original. I know that in Calif. they have to retain a certain amount of the original car and some of that has to have the original VIN numbers on it. I will do some digging around our DMV and see if I can find something that makes it more clear what this state considers original. If not, I know a person in Sacramento that I can call and ask.

Ron

Ron

I agree the registry entry is hard to follow. I can't tell whether there are 2, 3 or more potential cars that might be 3016.

However, when you say that the title may have been changed from 3106 BACK to 3016, that seems to contradict the registry.

It talks about Bacon possibly buying the title to 3106 (while Mack bought the wreck of 3106 as a bill of sale). Then Bacon sells his wrecked car with the 3106 title to Park who notices the shock tower reads 3016 and has the title "corrected" to read 3016. The car is restored by Mike McCluskey and it seems that the car started off as a street car with CSX32xx or CSX33xx features. So the car in question is most likely neither 3106 nor 3016. Perhaps nobody knows what the real serial number is.

It would seem that the car in question was an original Shelby, but without having the title for whatever its real serial number might be, does it cease to be an original cobra?