Shelby not the first Cobra ACE Bristol

[Don]

Note the reference to a Buchanan Cobra in Open Sports with a 1147 CC engine

http://www.vhrr.com/results/Morwell%...%20Results.pdf

Victorian Historic Racing Register

http://www.vhrr.com/index.html

Question, does the existence of the " Buchanan " have any influence on the trademark/copyrights with the CSX series , the Buchanan dating back to 1958: Similarities in body design between the Aston Martin DB3S vs Buchanan vs AC vs CSX Cobra ?

" Though Nat Buchanan still dreamed of making his own car, his ambitions changed somewhat when the Ford-powered coupe project failed to get off the ground, for it wasn't long after this he decided the time and market were ripe for a "conversion" sports body.
And so was born the Buchanan body, or as it became known among enthusiasts - the Buchanan Body. In what proved to be a very shrewd and successful move, Buchanan hatched an agreement with Tom Sulman. He borrowed Sulman's Aston Martin DB3S sports-racer and, after subtly changing some details of the body styling to save too much embarrassment, used the shell as the mock-up on which the fibreglass moulds were made.
The immediate success of the Buchanan Body proved the Aston Martin DB3S might have been made for the job. It was a good looking shape in its own right, with long racy lines that stamped it as a serious sports car. And it didn't hurt that Aston Martin's racing reputation was riding high at that time. There couldn't have been many cars better than the DB3S for a specialist body to resemble. "

" More than one hundred bodies had been sold by 1958 when the Buchanan moulds were sold to Jennens & Simmonds of Parramatta Road, Croydon. who went on to produce about fifty further units. The bodies built by Buchanan are distinguished from those produced by J. & S. in having a numbered body plate attached. "

" Aside from the favoured MGs, the Buchanan Body also went onto many other cars including Triumph TRs and a variety of homebrewed specials, usually Holden powered. Some were made for racing but by far the most went on to the street. "