Cobra dash gauges

[Dan Case]

Originally Posted by xb-60

Further questions (for my own interest)...
In the period when COB/COX cars were being built in England, and fitted with Smiths gauges, were the CSX 289 Cobras being fitted with SW gauges in England or were they to be fitted in US?
Cheers,
Glen

From my post #2:

Originally Posted by Dan Case

A.C. Cars installed all the wiring and instrumentation in street cars except for any wiring changes made in the USA as required for American market cars. Example: Production CSX2070-CSX2200 cars were converted to Ford generator based charging systems including a Ford voltage regulator. At or by CSX2117 white body AUTOLITE® batteries took the place of the Lucas® battery used before that, which required battery cable adaptation.

A.C. Cars Ltd built all the Cobra roadsters. Specifically, that includes and means installing all the Stewart-Warner® made components supplied by and or through Ford Motor Company. Some of the Stewart-Warner components were assigned Ford engineering experimental part numbers.


To cover item by item what each company provided when and where and or installed would require a pretty good size book but to shorten the discussion Shelby American had to source and install very little themselves for the basic no options street car.