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Originally posted by Cal Metal
Jimbo:
That is the Ed Leslie car. It has a dubious history. I will post a piece from the Registry regarding its heritage. "R" probably stands for replica. Buyer Beware!
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Cal's correct... CSX2136 is one of the "Amazing Stories"
(..not near my Registry, but here goes...)
The car was seriously raced hard all the way until the end of the sixties, when it was crashed. It was subsequently burned to death in a trailer accident. The car was totalled out, settled by the insurance and sent to a junk yard.
In the Seventies, a Canadian talked to the last owner... and purchased from him two wheels and a bill of sale (piece of paper) for a buck! ...then had Anglis build an entire new car, using the bill of sale as the rights to the s/n, CSX2136... hoping the "body" would never be found.
Well.. a few years later... guess what floats up out of a Canadian scrap heap?...
...you guessed it! The real CSX2136.
(MAP... thanks for the picture)
I remember seeing this at SAAC/Great Gorge.(?)
...found at last, sold to Ken Eber, restored, and then... a legal battle which finally proved the Anglis-built car a replica in the real sense of the word.
Irony let the owner re-badge the car as CSX2136R ...but it is not considered an original Cobra at all. The REAL CSX2136 is restored to concours condition, and alive and well.