CS2131 History?

[LMH]

Outstanding Ron, that's it! Yes, I would say the other is a bit too "limey"!
Larry

[Nedsel]

OK, let's just be careful here. Otherwise, it appears we may get into a discussion of Limey Greens. And we'd all turn to vegetables, and then there would be Mass Confussion.

[PDUB]

Originally Posted by Nedsel

OK, it appears we may get into a discussion of Limey Greens, then there would be Mass Confussion.

Wouldn't that would be moss confussion, Ned




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[Nedsel]

Originally Posted by PDUB

Wouldn't that would be moss confussion, Ned




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Yes, I suppose it would. My mistake.

As for the hard top question, the original owner of Ernie's car did order a standard hard top for it. However, the aluminum Le Mans hard top 2203 wears today was acquired separately by Ernie many years later.

[Cobra Pack]

Nedsel,

The saac records need to be updated. The miller family purchased the original hardtop back from the owner of csx2203 at least 3 years ago and it is on csx2138 again for the first time since 1963. Csx2203 has a new hardtop on it. I have pictures of the hardtop when murray stripped it and the original black paint was still underneath. He also constructed a buck and made a second top for csx2155 which is currently being restored.

Thanks

Mike

[Nedsel]

Mike, thanks for the update. I knew Larry was trying to buy Ernie's top long before he passed away. However, Ernie hasn't given us an update, so we didn't confirm the details. The point of my note to Larry was to let him know Ernie's car wasn't one of the cars that originally came with the La Mans style hard top.

[VRM]

Hey! That's my photo! The rest are here:
CS2131 Replica album | Steve DeVaux | Fotki.com, photo and video sharing made easy.

This replica was stunning in a weird cartoonish sort of way. I shot it at Goodwood - it was in the spectator parking for vintage cars. There were probably 1000-1500 cars, and this one could be seen from quite a ways away because of the limey glow.

I usually have no interest in replicas, but this one seemed very well done with the exception of the colour and graphics.

Steve

[nikbj68]

Originally Posted by VRM

Hey! That's my photo!...I usually have no interest in replicas, but this one seemed very well done...Steve

How`s about a photo of the replica, and a replica of the replica?! It is indeed a very nice car.



Taken at Silverstone Classic 2010 on the 289 Register Club stand. Boy did my arm ache after 10 minutes holding the model for everyone to try to get a good shot of both cars!!!

[Historybuff]

I don't know how common it was in Cobras but in researching other
race cars I have come across cases where a team would be testing a car and have another complete car hidden in the trailer. If they smashed the car they were testing they would act like they were repairing it in their garage but actually roll out the identical car. Also I heard about the finessing the serial numbers as far as getting a car from country to country. If you had a plate for a car where the taxes were paid, it was sometimes easier to switch your car to those plates than to have to pay duties on bringing a car in where the fees hadn't been paid. I heard one guy--Hans Tanner--was infamous for driving a Ferrari through a tunnel under the alps and then stopping half way at an emergency stop to switch the id. plates on a car just for that reason.

Of course it confuses racing fans decades later when they start to ask questions like "How come these numbers are so similar?" or "how come there's two cars with this chassis number?"

I had my own registration issue when I bought a Mercedes 300SL in Toronto from a guy who had bought two of them when they were new. He gave me the wrong title. When i got to the Detroit border with Canada, they asked for the car's papers and noticed the registration didn't match the car but then thought "ah, it's close enough" and let me through without confiscating the car. (which I later sold for $2500==back then my policy was "buy low, sell low")