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Originally Posted by peterpjb
Dan, I really appreciate very much your wealth of knowledge, thanks for all these Informations!
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You are welcome.
We have collected a lot of information on Cobras. I started studying parts making them up circa 1971. I started some original car owner's groups years ago; including several original owners. Having fifty plus owners of street and race (including street and race car original owners) Cobras and a few of the world’s most dedicated to authenticity restorers to collect data from all historic and modern points of view has helped me build many files. Doing surveys is fun, “… if you car has one or more original tires on it please go get every tiny bit of information you can find and send it in for collection….” Many of the people in this group own or have owned multiple original Cobras street and race Shelby and privateer, 427 Cobras street and race, AC 289 Sports, and even one friend owned a Daytona Coupe long ago. Just guessing, but this group I can draw help from has or has had maybe 200 or more original cars goes through their garages. Big data base.
Until recently an enormous amount of documentation (originals mostly) on the parts going into new Cobras was in one collection. Fortunately I got copies of much of the more complicated documents before a fire destroyed the whole library the man had.