I am the new owner of a AC COBRA SHELBY and I would wish to be able to authenticate it. How to make to have the history of this vehicle please? I live in France (Paris), which is the specialist in France on the subject? Thanks for your reply,
Contacting Ned Scudder would be a start. He can probably direct you to somebody in Europe to talk to. Choice two might be the AC owners club in the UK. If you send me a private message with your e-mail address I will try to get some names and e-mail addresses for you.
Yikes! I hope you have what you thought you bought. I am thinking it would have been good to check that first and then pay for it.
An AC Cobra is not necessarily an AC Shelby Cobra. AC, the manufacturer built a number of cars with a Vin like COB or COX, a Shelby car VIN will start with CSX. C is the series, X is for Export. If it's a genuine SHELBY Cobra and you paid less than $200,000 American dollars, it's likely a 'fake'. It could STILL be a COB or COX genuine AC Cobra, which typically sell for far less than a Shelby. Still, COB's and COX's are VERY nice and VERY cool and are in fact real Cobras! You can park next to me anytime, anywhere! Seems to me we are seeing a steady rise in COB and COX values, by the way.
COB and COX certain to follow in appreciation I think Euros don't follow the US prices that closely and might not realize the fast appreciation of CSX2000 and CSX3000 cars. Therefore there might be a deal in a COB (Cobra of Britain) or COB cars (Cobra for Export to continent). They still have the DNA of the genuine AC Cobras and were made in the AC factory during the golden era we are all enamored of. But the fly in the ointment is that the American dollar has taken a big dive and we now have to pay a lot more for a given car in Europe than we would have a year ago. In one way calling these cars Cobras is a little strange because they are Cobras that never saw the Shelby American plant, but then you have to accept remote building as a part of the auto industry for decades, hell Rolls even built Rolls Royces in Massachusetts!
