[olddog]

I have been hanging around on this website about a decade now, and it has helped me tremendously over the years. I have meet a few of the members at the London Cobra show. Most I have not met in person. Bill I never met in person. That said I have watched him help identify many cars over the years. I'm certain he is not a perfect being, but you can generally take what he tells you to the bank.

What I have learned over the years is that anything that is of great value attracts low life scum sucking creatures that will attempt to alter something of low value to appear like it is the genuine high value item. Then they try to sell it to an unsuspecting person, effectively stealing the difference in value from the unsuspecting person. Typically called white collar crime, I personally despise these loathsome sub-human creatures. I have gotten the impression that Bill doesn't particularly love these people either.

An original Cobra is a high value item, and you guessed it, today there are more claimed original Cobra's than were made. No different than rare art or rare coins.

What is so hard to understand that Bill does not wish to explain little known details on the open internet that could easily be used by unscrupulous people to rip someone off. That is common sense and it has nothing to do with the original post on this thread nor was it intended to reflect toward the OP. It is just a fact. Are you so ignorant of the world that you cannot understand this?

Now the OP may be the most honest person in the world, and he may have been perfectly truthful. However, someone at some time, has tried to alter this car. Therefore this car absolutely has been part of a fraud, of some type, by someone in the past. The OP may be innocent of all of this.

If the OP is totally innocent, then he better listen carefully to Bill, because he may very well be playing with dynamite.