The ultimate original ac cobra find this past week!!!!

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Originally Posted by blown-v8

A guy with a $300-$450K 289 ORIGINAL AC COBRA, given the opportunity at ORIGINAL panels verses the worlds best REPRODUCTION simply would not chose the reproduction. Period. I have seen many knock offs over the years, and they would not "do" for my car if I owned one. Just like all other repro parts, they just aren't ever the same!!! To each his own, however...

If you can afford the car, you can likely afford the parts, and you are given the opportunity to buy the real deal, the decision would be easily made, I feel. But, I own the parts too, so maybe I have a somewhat slanted view. Not exactly the case in the many other minds of the folks that have the opportunity to see these in person, or via pictures the past few days. Regardless, there are exactly NONE of these out there, and I ask anyone to show me another set. I honest believe this may be the only set that slipped out of England and still exist today.

Curiously, if anyone else has the right side, I would be interested in buying it. Might be the closest thing to ever owning the Real Deal, no!??! I won't hold my breath for emails. Ha ha!

One other note. Think of the guys out there with actual balls who race their original 289 cars. Again, if you can afford the car, would you not want ORIGINAL spares in case you ever balled it up? I would, if I could afford the car!? Just my two cents. Stupid rare, regardless...

Well, you can't really compare something like a replacement Cobra body panel in the sense of "NOS". An "NOS" rear quarter for a Chevelle or Mustang is NOS because it was stamped on a machine in 1969 that doesn't exist anymore and every single part was identical.

A Cobra body panel is hand made from sheet aluminum by a craftsman. Whether a guy in 1967 grabbed some aluminum off the shelf and made the panel, or some guy in 2009 grabbed some aluminum off the shelf and made the panel, it's still a hand made part.

Of course I can see the point of having a part made originally by AC as added value, but a replacement Cobra body panel made by Kimmons, McCluskey or Brooklands would not by any means be inferior in any way.

And as far as original cars being damaged, there are probably more original Cobras out there that have been repaired or rebodied than cars that haven't been damaged in some way