Thread: Did the Cobra exist before Carroll Shelby visited AC?
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Old 01-09-2004, 08:47 PM
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Default Re: Cobras before CS
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Originally posted by albright42


...which shows two photos of the Buchanan Cobra, a two seat sports car made in Australia by Buchanan Motors.


"More than one hundred bodies had been sold by 1958 when the Buchanan moulds were sold to Jennens & Simmonds of Parramatta Road, Croydon. who went on to produce about fifty further units. The bodies built by Buchanan are distinguished from those produced by J. & S. in having a numbered body plate attached."




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