04-27-2009, 10:41 AM
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Abnormal CC Member
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Pottstown (East Coventry),
PA
Cobra Make, Engine: Don't think I'll be getting a Cobra for a long time... Do have '94 RX-7 R2.
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Originally Posted by What'saCobra?
Nor do i recall Angliss "admitting" that only Shel' could call his car a Cobra. AC Cars Limited (Angliss) retained that right from FORD until it folded in 1995(?), if i recall correctly. It was AC Cars Group Ltd. (Lubinsky et al) that were quite correctly told by FORD to cease and desist using the moniker, as they were not any longer building an EU legal automobile (BS, TUV) .
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I have a feeling that AC did not continuously have the permission from Ford to use the Cobra name until 1995. After all the coil spring cars with the small block V8s that AC sold were not called cobras. Perhaps it was when Angliss started making the Mk IVs that he got the permission to use the cobra name, but only in Europe. Mk IVs were not called cobras in the U.S. |
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