Street Cobra in vintage Brands Hatch Film

[propayne]

Nice color footage in this vintage film recently posted.

- Phillip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XvOQmEzNcI

[SunDude]

Cool webfind!

The car is COB6106.

Nice color footage in this vintage film recently posted.

- Phillip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XvOQmEzNcI

[deathsled]

"If this were a beauty contest, we just lost..."

[Cobra Ned]

COB 6106 was the first AC 289 Sports built, and was retained by the AC factory as a demonstrator until its sale in '69 to David Brown. It was featured in the 10/67 issue of Motor magazine.

[pbf777]

   

................. its sale in '69 to David Brown.

      I wonder, but I'm guessing not considering the deemed message that might have been pervaded, if that might have been the David Brown of D.B. Tractors and of Aston Martin (among others)? 

      Scott.

[Cobra Ned]

I'm not sure we will ever know for certain, unless there are references to him in some of the AC Owner's Club notes from then.

[98SVT - was 06GT]

The UnCobra - AC emblems.
Shelby didn't offer 6000 series Cobras until 2014.

[Cobra Ned]

Maybe. But AC Cars, who built each of the '60s Cobras, put AC emblems on all the cars sold in Europe, as they were called AC Cobras. Those sold to Shelby had these AC emblems removed and replaced with round Cobra badges.