[Dominik]

Good day, I post this to entertain us a bit during winter:

Here it goes: We are approaching Christmas, many of you can’t drive your cars and we spend time with family (at home) or the CC-family online.


In 2002 I worked on my Contemporary Classics here in Cape Town, South-Africa, when my german neighbor came in to tell me that he once had a car like this. (Big deal, I think, probably a locally build Shamrock)

He walkes around and recalls a roll bar, sidepipes, red paint with white stripes, instruments...

I inquire: Instruments? Like these? (Shamrock and KCC as well as SPF only used Smiths later in the millenium). He replies, I am not sure, after all that was in the 70s...

Now I stopped working! Was is a left-hand-drive, like this one? He confirmed!

South-African build replicas are 99% right-hand drive. And haven’t been built in the 70s! I tried to extract more details from him to get more leads that it was a 427 with sidepipes, roll-bar, ...

He bought the car which has been formerly repossed by a finance company (I have that name), into his business in Rhodesia, 1976. And sold it to a new owner residing in Bulawayo, then it went to Salisbury (Harare). That all happend in the end of the 70s.

Who knows about a 427 Cobra that left the USA to Rhodesia before 1976? And how can I go about finding this car. I do know people from (now) Zimbabwe who raced there these days and would show me around. But I need a bit more than the above...