12-18-2016, 05:16 AM
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Originally Posted by LMH
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You are correct, it is not an original CSX2201 and later production part. Stewart Warner engineering documentation of the Cobra assembly still exists and based on that information the Cobra assembly is different in several ways than what speed shops sold. They were rare as service parts even by 1965. They had been superseded by Shelby American by May 1965 as by that time a common Stewart Warner retail unit was listed as the available service part.
The only assembly number I have for the Cobra unique assembly is a Ford engineering one, XF-152470. (The Ford specified Stewart Warner components for CSX2201 and later Cobras are linked to Ford engineering 'experimental' numbers. Some were itemized in the April 16, 1965 parts list.)
The description is not misleading to me as it says "fits-AC-Cobra" not that is a genuine original production part. (Since at least the mid 1970s it has been very common for suppliers of replacement parts to Cobra owners have used descriptions like "as original" or "fits" to describe parts they offer. If the buyer realized, and many did not, that the new part delivered was not exactly like the original they were replacing the common counter response was something like 'didn't say it was original just that is works'; I was certainly told things like that often enough from suppliers from the west coast to AC Cars themselves.)
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Dan Case
1964 Cobra owner since 1983, Cobra crazy since I saw my first one in the mid 1960s in Huntsville, AL.
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