Shelby vs SAAC

[What'saCobra?]

With regard only to Shelby Cobras, would it be helpful to answer the question, "Is that a Cobra?", with... "Yep, but it is a new Shelby Cobra."

"The old ones were made in the early to middle sixties, but this is a new one, with some nice improvements (OR, if so, "It is made exactly like the old ones")." Etc.

Refering to them as old or new seems more simple and practical an answer. Anyway, it is what i do and people seem to understand right away. Nor would i be stretching the truth in any meaningful way.

Ps: Don't forget, Shelby isn't the only company/person that made either original cobras or "continuation" Cobras; according to both SAAC, FORD and Shelby, AC Cars Limited also made Cobras, just not Shelby Cobras.

Remember too that "all" 289 Cobras were called AC Cobras, NOT Shelby Cobras, though many many US States registered them many different ways, even as FORD 2 door roadsters.

Quite different than Shelby and FORD, AC Cars Limited continued building AC Cobras of various types and specifications for many years, long after the others stopped. They were made the same way, by mostly the same people, on the same equipment, mostly at the same factory (until the new one) and mostly with the same small dimentional errors and variances as the old ones. But, with better paint jobs.