One of the AC Owners` Club`s foremost ambassadors has been given the honour of displaying his MkIV Cobra in the grand entrance of the Royal Automobile Club`s Headquarters in Pall Mall, London, to coincide with the Cobra`s 50th anniversary & to commemorate the passing of Carroll Shelby.
Click photo to see the installation.
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Quick version here 
It has been a busy year, as "TACO" made a 2000-mile trip via Spain to Monaco for the Historic GP weekend and
Attended the Double 12 at Brooklands:
(by jamesst1968 on Flickr)
Despite breaking a half-shaft competing on the Test Hill John posted FTD in the event.
The half-shaft was repaired
just in time for a week at the Le Mans Classic:
(There was even time for a renaming ceremony!)
There was also a full day`s filming for The Discovery Channel`s
Wheeler Dealers series. And no. It
wasn`t John`s immaculate MkIV that needed Edd China`s TLC!
Setting up at the RAC HQ in Pall Mall required a 5:00am start time. The team at Pall Mall have moved approximately 400 display vehicles in and out and were very well practised at building the ramp and removing the revolving doors. Health and Safety no longer permit cars to be driven up the ramp into the Rotunda which was probably a good thing as the sound of TACO on tick-over would not have been a welcome alarm call for the guests sleeping two floors above!!
After the RAC residence has come to an end in a week or so, it will be time for a well-earned winter break for this much campaigned Cob.