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Here's a cutting from an article in 1996 , when Rivkin bought it.

Sounds like the same car.



Friday July 12, 1996

Fun machines are now the rage at the preloved fine car auctions, writes PETER McKAY. Rene Rivkin has just gone wild with a V8 Cobra.

BRISTLING with mobile phones and emitting more smoke than an out-of-tune government bus, Rene Rivkin breezed into the Pickles auction of fine cars and motorcycles fashionably late last Monday, took a seat four rows from the front, and walked away the owner of a replica AC Cobra.

The rumbling, V8-powered, bright red beast, all sonorous exhaust noise and mean attitude, is not a machine usually associated with the high-profile stocks purveyor.

His personal transport is usually a graceful Bentley Azure, an elegant Ferrari 456 or perhaps a painfully trendy Harley-Davidson.

But a 1987 Robnell Cobra roadster, replete with rollover bar and massive chromium side pipes which pump out a sound closer to Le Mans than le stock exchange?

Are we seeing the rambunctious side of Rivkin emerging? The lair, the bodgie? Is a tattoo next?

In any case, Rivkin has purchased a drive on the wild and primitive side for just $42,500, or one-twelfth the cost of his Ferrari.