Real: All Cobras built at Thames Ditton in the 1960s.

Cars exported to the USA had CSX chassis numbers

AC badged cars for the UK market had COB chassis numbers

AC badged cars for overseas markets (apart from the USA) had COX chassis numbers.

Even if AC added the CSX prefix, they still wouldn't let you in the group photo at the next SAAC event. (just ask any CSX4000 owner)

But wait, what if Factory Five bought Gensing Forrest........I mean SAI........I mean Shelby Inc........or whatever it is..........
:LOL:

We are pissing and moaning because we can't drive our cobras (real or fakey-dos) because it has been raining for 3 months:CRY: :CRY: :CRY:

All good points....

Actually, for accuracy's sake:

Same tools? Not exactly. The AC's alloy body was then and is today hand formed using the traditional English wheel, dollys and slapping files. The Kirkham furnished CSX body is formed using a combination modern metal pressing techniques, then hand finished. Advantage? No, just ......different.

Same dimensions? Not exactly. The AC factory still owns and uses most of the original bucks from the 60's. The Kirkham furnished CSX body was formed off a pattern taken off CSX 3104, a wide hipped street car modified to S/C specs. Accurate nose dimensions could be suspect, as 3104 was involved in a front end collision and then repaired prior to the dimensions being taken. If you view the nose of a CSX glass car and a CSX alloy car, you will notice a slight difference, with the glass cars' intake being more elliptical, more symmetrical and truer to the original, unmolested cars coming out of AC in the 60's.

Different People? Hard to say without viewing AC's employment records, though entirely possible someone who worked on the cars 40 years ago is still there in some capacity. Safe to say that whomever is there now learned their wonderful craft from one of those old metal benders.

I agree with the general premise that without Shelby there would never have been a Cobra, but the same applies to AC Cars, don't you think?

Bud:JEKYLHYDE :JEKYLHYDE :JEKYLHYDE

Mike: I'll be around this weekend. I'll be home finishing my Arc. :D

Maybe we'd all be in a better mood if we lived in Hawaii. :)

What's the difference?
 

When I was in the 3rd grade, my math teacher caught me snoozing and yelled out..
"Hey Steve...
What's the difference between 2/8ths and 3/8ths?
I replied...
"That's what I say, sweetheart....
What's the difference"!!!

Hey Captain!! Are they going to build the Mamba?
I like the idea for a street/track car.

I would have to say that a "real" Cobra is a Shelby Cobra built in the 1960's and the Shelby Cobra's built today.

I would have to think on the AC situation, same car built on the same equipment from the same company that made the original "roller" chassis? I guess they would be a "real" AC Cobra.