Continuation Cars

[Power Surge]

The cars built in the early 90s that were marketed as being made from left over chassis are considered "completion" cars. They wear csx3000 VINs just like the 60s cars.

The 4000 series cars are called "continuation" cars, as in, they are the continuation of Shelby producing Cobras after many years of not building them.

For legal reasons, Shelby sells ALL continuation cars as "component" vehicles.... meaning they are sold as part of a completed car, and not a DOT legal completed vehicle for the year of manufacture (no Cobra would meet actual federal standards for modern day and still look like a Cobra).

CSX4000 cars wearing the VIN range from 4000 to into the 4300s, are considered "vegas" cars. Meaning, they were produced by Shelby in Vegas. They were usually sold to authorized Shelby dealers in packages of parts, with the dealers finishing off the cars to the customers liking. Some vegas cars were actually built at Shelby, instead of a dealer, but still started as a package of parts made by Shelby.

There were a few carbon body cars that I think used 4500 numbers.

There are no 4400 or 4600 numbered cars that I am aware of.

Starting with the number 4750, new 4000 cars were now sold as painted, completed rollers, you add the drivetrain. About a dozen or so of the first cars were build in South America by CAV, most having build quality issues that had to be fixed at Shelby. Then the deal was struck with HST to take over building the glass 4000 cars. Later on in time, Shelby struck a deal with Hi-Tech to build some of the CSX cars, to CSX specs. So now, HST and Hi-tech both build new CSX cars.

The newest cars have a 6000 VIN, since the 5000 numbers were used on the old Series 1 cars.

Superformance is licensed by Shelby to use the COBRA name, and is the only replica maker authorized to do so. Other than that, a Superformance built by Hi-Tech shares nothing in common with a CSX built by Hi-Tech.

Hope that clears it up a bit.