Stunning 289

[Dan Case]

Originally Posted by LMH

Not all pre 2201 chassis CSX cars received Smiths brand top knob clocks. Not sure of COB chassis.
Larry

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Like most Cobra subjects electrical systems are not easy to grasp unless you cover the whole range.

CSX2xxx chassis CSX2001-CSX2200 had AC Cars designed British electrical systems and instruments.

Sometime about the time CSX2186 was being built the first AC Cars home market COB/COX60xx chassis were built.

At CSX2201 many changes occurred in the now mostly Ford designed American electrical systems. BUT AC Cars continued to make cars for their market much differently. COB/COX60xx chassis look strange beside and CSX2xxx chassis made at the same time with regards to dash, instruments, electrical components, wiring, and where all those things were mounted.

Want to really confuse somebody mix details of how CSX2xxx chassis were done and details of how COB/COX chassis were done into a single car. (Example: I have seen cars that were originally fitted with British instruments converted to American ones. I have seen cars converted the other way. I have seen cars with mixes of British and American instruments and switches. Just because cars got that way post retail sale doesn’t mean the “factories” did it that way. From nearly the day the first Cobra was sold retail owners/mechanics/and later restorers needed to know the exact chassis number of the car in question so the correct information and or parts were supplied. I have seen funny in period correspondences between owners and both Shelby American and AC Cars where at least one person in the discussion had no idea what version of chassis was being inquired about. Imagine how confusing it was for AC Cars to be giving front and rear wheel alignment for a rack and pinion leaf spring chassis to the owner of a coil spring chassis car. There are features in a coil spring chassis not in a leaf spring one!) Go further mix in all the specification changes (lots of them) occurred between CSX2001 and CSX2188.