Who made the first cobra replica

[Steve Dickey]

SantaFe66,
A friend of mine who posts as Bob W has a Cardiac Cobra. If I remember correctly he went up to Canada to get it. Do a search for him and drop him an e-mail as I think he can help you with some information.
Steve Dickey

[ront49]

I have the same question, any info on Fiber Fab? especially quality...

[jon@harrison.ne]

This gives some of Fiber Fab's history:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiberfab
However this information is incomplete. The company actually started making kit cars in a small shop in Palo Alto, California around 1964. I lived there after graduate school at Stanford (a couple miles from the shop) and worked at nearby Lockheed Missiles and Space. I would stop by the shop periodically to watch progress on the first car. It was a one man business run by Warren Goodwin that quickly outgrew the small shop and relocated to larger quarters not far away. A few years later Goodwin was arrested for killing his wife an died of a heart attack in jail. The company started out making cars (Aztec, Avenger) that were closed cars that somewhat resembled a GT-40. Later they made MG TD replicas. I'm pretty sure they never made a Cobra replica. The quality, in my opinion, was just OK, similar to most all of the kits of that era since they were made to a low price point. Apparently the company has restarted as Fiberfab US making cars that look similar to the early ones but with much improved quality.

[Davereeves]

My LAE was built in 1995.

[Snake2998]

As far as I know Shamrock were the first manufacturers in South Africa in 1984 - I bought my Kit in 85

[cobrarkc]

Nice we resurrected a 15 year old thread.

[firebird69racer]

I know this is an old thread, but I just came across it. I have been redoing my friends kit car that I think might be an Arntz body, I don't know about the whole kit. I have not been able to find any info about it. The reason I think it is an Arntz body , is from searching the internet I only found one picthure of a car that has the same dash layout as this car, and the it said it was an Arntz kit.
This car has a tag in the door pillar that reads.

1979
Cobra
Guldstrand
.
Custom Built
For
Van Parkman

The car has a lot of coustom fabed parts.

[joyridin']

Originally Posted by firebird69racer

I know this is an old thread, but I just came across it. I have been redoing my friends kit car that I think might be an Arntz body, I don't know about the whole kit. I have not been able to find any info about it. The reason I think it is an Arntz body , is from searching the internet I only found one picthure of a car that has the same dash layout as this car, and the it said it was an Arntz kit.
This car has a tag in the door pillar that reads.

1979
Cobra
Guldstrand
.
Custom Built
For
Van Parkman

The car has a lot of coustom fabed parts.

That does not look like an Arntz. Steering column, glove box, gauges, dash, trans tunnel are all wrong.

[sunman]

Guldstrand Engineering in California built Corvettes and other race cars in the 70s. Lots of them. Dick Guldstrand is “Mr Corvette”.
Is the car Chevy powered with a special suspension? They were suspension specialists. Doesn’t seem possible being a Cobra but worth checking out. They did Lola’s too.
The gauges would look super cool in modern digital. Add a clock in bottom center to make a triangle. Go remote start. Center switches. Ya tell my friends I came up with it…

[firebird69racer]

Originally Posted by joyridin'

That does not look like an Arntz. Steering column, glove box, gauges, dash, trans tunnel are all wrong.

The steering column is from a MGB, so is the front cross member and some of the front suspension, and the rack and pinion.
I have no clue as to who made thw body or kit. I am hoping to maybe get some clues form everyones help here.

thanks

[mrmustang]

Originally Posted by firebird69racer

The steering column is from a MGB, so is the front cross member and some of the front suspension, and the rack and pinion.
I have no clue as to who made thw body or kit. I am hoping to maybe get some clues form everyones help here.

thanks

Post pictures of the engine compartment, door jambs, trunk and trunk opening, and if possible, the frame and suspension.

Bill S.

PS: Even though the thread is from the sights stone age, Acme (yes, really), a division of the original Allied Industries, created the first known Fiberglass cobra body and potential kit, first known body splash for them has been dated to mid summer, 1970, unknown what car they took the body splash from.

[sunman]

Looks like the Arntz in a thread started 01-29-2015 by GVS.
Arntz type 2 78-80.
Guldstrand MGB front suspension.
Aluminum lower a arms, tubular uppers.
Bob Bennett was engineer at Arntz maybe send a photo to Bennett Coachworks.

[firebird69racer]

Originally Posted by mrmustang

Post pictures of the engine compartment, door jambs, trunk and trunk opening, and if possible, the frame and suspension.

Bill S.

PS: Even though the thread is from the sights stone age, Acme (yes, really), a division of the original Allied Industries, created the first known Fiberglass cobra body and potential kit, first known body splash for them has been dated to mid summer, 1970, unknown what car they took the body splash from.

I am having some trouble loading some pics, not sure if they are to big in size. I will try to load some, I might have to do then one at a time?
I have changed some things like the dash. I made a plate that the gauges mount to so I can remove it after all the gauges are wired so I didn't have to lay under it and try to reach up to wire them, and reduced the number of them down to just the important ones.

Thanks for your help

[firebird69racer]

this is how I changed the dash to make it easier to install all the gauges

[firebird69racer]

motor compartment

[Buzz]

Definitely an early Arntz replica.

[firebird69racer]

Originally Posted by Buzz

Definitely an early Arntz replica.

thanks

[sunman]

GVS has the same dash in his Arntz.
Search photos in his thread Needing help identifying blue with white stripe kit.

[firebird69racer]

this is how the car looks now. I still have some more stuff to do to make it complete

[firebird69racer]

this is the motor