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Originally Posted by Ron61

I may be completely wrong on this, but I believe that when the continuation Cobras first came out, California refused to register them and you had to get a SB-100 number if you wanted to register it legally at a later date. Something about a new frame and it wasn't made in the 60s, so they said it was illegal and had to meet the present day emissions and so forth. I don't know if this still is the fact or not as when I heard they wouldn't let them be registered I quit looking for one.

Ron

Ron, those were not continuation cars, they were called completion cars. The idea was Shelby build new Cobras using original left over chassis. The cars were to be sold for 500k each, with most of the proceeds going to charity (another story that doesn't need to be discussed here).

Of course it was soon found out that no "left over" chassis existed and that Shel had McCluskey build the cars from scratch. When CA found out, they banned them from ever being registered in Cali.

Now, through whatever brand of Cobra I have had at the time, my view has been the same. If the car was sold by either Shelby or AC, and they call it a Cobra, then it's a real Cobra. Personally, I do not see how anyone can argue that point. How on earth can anyone tell the selling company that what they are selling is not really what they are selling?

Seems pretty simple to me. If Shelby says it's a Cobra, it's a Cobra. If AC says it's a Cobra, it's a Cobra.