The Art Of The Replica

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I recently came across a great video on the Petrolicious website, about a beautiful 1959 Ferrari 250 Testa Rosa replica, built by Peter Giacobbi. It’s a very nicely done video about the car and more importantly about the man who built his dream car and why in his own words, he did it. His use of an original body, then building the rest of the car around that body with the best parts he could source or create, truly captures the essence of his dream.

Building Your Dream Is A Beautiful Thing | Petrolicious

In my opinion, this story to a great extent also applies to Cobra replicas and the people who build them and who drive them. The vast majority of us here own and drive a replica or continuation Cobra, but there are also a few folks here that own an original.

Peter’s passion, dedication and craftsmanship is remarkable, and his interactions with people that own an original Testa Rosa that have seen his replica or ‘fake’ as he calls his Testa Rosa, is not unlike what some of us have experienced with our cars. This is not to say that all Cobra replicas are built to the same degree at Peter’s Testa Rosa, as that is a very high standard indeed, but there are some that are no doubt near or at that level.

I am sure a number of us here went down the same path as Peter, build the car of our dreams (the Cobra in this case) to experience to some degree what Ken Miles, Dan Gurney, Bob Bondurant and others experienced, because that is what we wanted to do and with a replica or continuation Cobra could afford to do.

Call it what you will … just dream it, built it and drive it!