Aluminium Bodied Contempoary

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Originally Posted by mrmustang

Monster Motorsports built the Ford V8 Miata and never used a name tag such as the one shown above.

I'm thinking the body has the optional aluminum inner panels, maybe the hood, but I've never heard of a Contemporary Cobra with an all aluminum body

Is there a Contemporary manufacturers plate on the car,or are we just relying on the hand made, hand stamped VIN tag?

Agree (naturally- Mr Mustang is always spot-on with his info )

Doubtful that this car was built by the Miata guys in Florida - There have been (and still are) a ton of companies around the country called "Monster Motorsports", "Monster Racing", "Monster Race Engineering".. etc...

There was even a guy here in Arizona, many years ago, who raced a car he called the "Monster Cobra"... It was a Factory Five (it was definitely not this car - I'm just making the point that "Monster Cobra" on a stamped tag provides pretty much zero info to go on....)

That rivet tag might as well just say " John Jones, incorporated" on it.... DOCUMENTATION.

Regarding the body- it's impossible to fake aluminum - It either is, or it isn't- if it is, then it's a big custom enhancement for a CCX replica. If it isn't, then trying to sell a fiberglass bodied car as aluminum is called fraud... Tread lightly.

The foot box that the number tag is riveted to, for example- From the photo, it sure looks more like fiberglass than aluminum...