Ralphy: You are funny!
Lost but funny.
Any buyer looking to spend the $$$ to purchase on an original Cobra is likely savvy enough to do his/her due diligence which would include using SAAC and the registry as a guide to start and a reference to start and likely paying an expert to inspect the car to insure it is an original series car.
No Continuation Series Cobra owner that I know of is trying to pass their cars off as original series car.
"Genuine" is synonymous with "real", "actual", 'authentic". Please check Webster's Roget. You do own one don't you? Both current production Cobras and original series are genuine Cobras. They are just separated by 40 years when they were manufactured by SAI
See, its really quite simple. Jim got it on the first try (with only 400 something posts under his belt) yet there are guys like buddyg and others here that have been struggling with this for years.
Buddyg: You say my Cobra is not a "real Shelby Cobra". No!!!?
Here I am these last 14 years thinking it was a Shelby Cobra.
However last I checked my vin, title and copy of MSO, all my delivery papers and records and manufactures tag they all have Shelby American as the manufacture. Could have sworn that means I own a....wait for it.... Shelby Cobra. SAAC says I own a Shelby Cobra so did Carroll Shelby (who was photographed with me and my, well.....Cobra) and so does SAI. Hmmm. Will go back and re-check everything tonight.
I'm not trying to make my Continuation series car an original Cobra. Its not. I don't represent it as such and for you to suggest that because I don't answer this question that fits you own little personal view of the issue no doubt motivated by sour grapes is yet another aspersion directed at not only the Continuation series but me and other owners. When people ask that question "is it real" I and other continuation Cobra owners answer truthfully by saying "Yes, it's a Continuation Series Shelby Cobra". If the person inquiring knows what that is great. If they don't, oh well. If they ask I explain. If they don't. Oh well. If they consider it a "real Cobra" that's great. If they don't, don't care. They are free to think what they want but I answered the question truthfully. If you refer to your car as a Cobra replica, than Kudos to you for being truthful. If you and others who don't own a Cobra as defined by SAAC describe your car as a "Cobra" to those that ask you are the ones misleading the person asking.
Cheers.