CSX3272 on BAT

[pchmotoho]

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1966-shelby-cobra-14/

Do you think the documented history is a blessing or a curse?
What about the color change from Silver to what looks like, to me at least, to be Toreador Red?


Bill
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Documented history is blessing for anyone who may be interested and a curse for any future owners unless of course the price is right. What is the right price?  I have zero clue. Maybe a nice Superformance but its already exceeded that and then some.

Color change?  At this point who would possibly care?

[Cobra Ned]

I do not claim to have any proof that the VIN-swap performed on CSX 3272 by Mike McCluskey's shop met every letter of the law. It was done almost 50 years ago, and at that time (possibly still today?) the CA DMV permitted this type of "reconstruction" when a car was deemed too far gone to reasonably expect its restoration. Of course, with that caveat, one does wonder how the bent remains of the original car were miraculously reincarnated as CSX 3140, only to have that VIN also removed from the chassis once it was determined that the original chassis remains of that particular car were still extant. Yet, given the circumstances, what we are left with today is a car here in the US that is based on a later AK chassis/ body with an appended VIN from its crashed predecessor, and a theoretically complete car in England with the appropriate hallmarks of an original, AC Cars-built coil-spring Cobra absent a legitimate matching VIN and no real  means of (a) proving what it actually was or (b) reinstating it to the car. Tough call.