[Historybuff]

If you have to have everything, here's another booklet to put on your list. There is a registry that was published before the Shelby American Automobile Club Registry existed or even before SAAC existed. It was 22 pages long, included US -based cars and some British COB cars and even some COX cars. The Club was based in Grosse Pointe, Michigan which leads me to think some of its members were sons of the auto industry royalty. The vertical format booklet has a red, white and black cover and some very poorly reproduced photos. It had to be published before 1970 as I was given a used copy about that time by a guy on an exotic car lot (yes, Sunset strip was exotic even then) . Its value is that a modern Cobra owner of a CSX2000 or CSX3000 car might be able to trace an earlier owner of his car. Of course, car buyers could "mine the list" but before you say, well, what chance is there of that since, every car must have changed hands at least a half dozen times. I thought that too until the other day I recognized an owner's name who , last time I talked to him, still had his 427 Cobra (after 39 some years!)

There's also supposed to be a German book on Cobra. This one sounds like of kooky. The cover is made of metal, maybe even a slab of real Cobra body. And it's probably in German and, be forewarned, it might just be ranting and racing as the publisher is a well known German eccentric ( forgot what his eccentricities are but something along the lines of that tobacco heir who would buzz his hometown dressed like a little old lady, etc.) . Still I'd like to hear about this book if anyone has seen it.