[What'saCobra?]

In the spirit of honest and respectful inquiry, what'saCobra notes and asks:

Let's see now. Your earnest scribbler here had three 289's, purchased in the US of A, all through shelby channels, 1963 and 1964, and none, that is, zip had any SA/SI or other Shelby ID's at all anywhere on the car.

They were all three AC Cobras, with AC data plates and no additionals or over placements or any other appendages. The Operators Manual, with two brass bolt/screw attachments, which I still have, also said AC Cobra on the cover and all over the inside.

Most people would be graciously willing to say these looked like this because they were AC Cobras...

CS was very proud of his connections with AC in the early years because they added a 60 year old hand crafted cachet to his project, were a known make, had a famous racing histoire and made homologation at the FAI and SCCA a lot easier.

I suppose familiarity bred some contempt with the perhaps stoggy way the cottage "industry" worked or maybe didn't work.

(Seems to me that the invoices all came from AC to SA, not to FORD. But, I don't remember who wrote the payment checks.)

Likely someone here can verify that the SA plates didn't appear until the 427 came upon the scene, but I am not really quite precisely sure. Maybe 1965?

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Ps: If the coveted CSX serial numbers were so much a vital part of the original Shelby legend, why did CS bastardize/prostitute them on the dopey Chrysler 4 banger which most of us don't even wish to stand near at any shows, let alone associate by co-location? Doesn't this indicate at least in some way CS's own disrespect for the brand and history at that time? You know, before all that "munny" was involved in making "copies of copies." Can you spell sour grapes?

And, wasn't he stealing another company's serial logo? Or did he get a release from the Hurlocks?