SHELBY289 AC COBRA RECREATION "NOT A KIT" 427 BODY LATE 60s Mk III FRAME NO RESR

Vintage 289 AC Cobra Mk III Recreation Built in England 40+ years ago THIS IS NOT A MODERN KIT CAR or REPLICA. Instead this is a one-off handmade recreation built in the old British metal craft style. Made of Fiber. Alloy & Steel. Hand crafted & manufacture in England and imported in the late 70's. a Ford 289 4. 7 L Motor. Ford 4 Speed. disc brakes. adjustable coil springs. independent rear suspension. rack & pinion steering. much more read on. Vintage AC 289 Cobra Mk III Recreation One-of-a-kind late 1960’s 289 AC Cobra European Mk III Recreation. This cobra was built 40+ years ago when handcrafted race cars were more common. This one-of-a-kind has had many period correct OEM and original parts installed and used in the building from the 60s & 70s. This is a very authentic looking 289 Shelby Cobra. exact body dimensions by making an exact mold from a 427 Cobra. The molded hand lade fiberglass skin is very heavy. unlike today modern kit cars with paper thin body& tubs. The constriction process is almost exactly like the original Shelby Cobra. carefully hand assembled. However. this special AC was built many years later with more modern advances in frame design & materials for the frame in frame. glass. aluminum monocoque. independent suspension. coil-overs and more. ONE OF A KIND – Barn Find: Found her in Hemmings Magazine almost 20 years ago. I helps dig her out of a garage in Dayton Ohio in the 90's. I have never waxed or ArmorAll'ed her. Just wiped down with a damp cloth and that is it. She still has the just found look. She is from the early 70's and she has that age and patina only true original cars have. I would call he a well cared for “barn Find”. She has a vintage look that no modern kit car Cobra has and she screams ORIGINAL look to her. However even with the similar look and style. she does not have the bad habits the original had…read on. This is NOT A KIT CAR. It is a hand built roadster in the AC factory original method. just as the original was. but there is nothing like it on the road. looks like she is right out of a time warp. If you love that vintage. original look to you cars you will love her. There are hundreds & hundreds of man-hours of labor to meticulously build her. And this Cobra is not one of the original "flexible flyer" AC's - This car is custom assembled on a more advanced tubular ladder-frame racing chassis. Set-up with independent front and rear suspension. The result looks identical to the original Shelby AC Cobra since its body was directly modeled off of an original 427 Cobra. FRAME & BODY: She looks to be a “one off” from England. handmade recreation. built in the late 60’s. As with all Cobra Mark III & VI designed cars. this version has the updated chassis (stiffer. stronger. and lighter). The frame is a ladder-style modular tube chassis with outer steel Birdcage or Exoskeleton for mounting points of the alloy or fiberglass body. The outer shell is glass. it is reinforced by aluminum at critical and stress points but more importantly the body is directly bonded to the full roll cage frame in a number of points so the fiberglass body. besides being thick hand-laid fiberglass. is bonded together and then bonded & riveted directly by the birdcage & frame. This reinforces the shell rigid and prevents stress cracking while preventing rattles. The car is extremely solidly built. The true Cobras were pieces of the body bonded together on the birdcage body mounts. This is the same craftsmanship used with this custom Cobra. The actual manufacturer is still unknown! However. the manufacturing and type are true to the 1968-1972 AC Mark III design. Today. the car's condition is very good. The body has never been repainted or repaired. Has some small wear accepted with 40+ year old original sports car. This is NOT a 100 pt show car. She still looks amazing for the age. This one looks like it has been raced. been chase by the Law. The paint is very old and looks to be classic lacquer paint. Great Shelby Color: MONZA RED INNER BODY: What adds to its look & feel of being original is the fact that the entire “inner body” is alloy! This is the same technique use in the original AC Shelby Cobra assembly. The entirely inner body is all aluminum. The alloy inner body is called a “monocoque”. This technique lightens the car while adding a high amount of structural rigidity to the car. 3 Key areas are alloy monocoque: 1) The inner engine compartment is all crafted in alloy panels bent and riveted 2) the inner cockpit is all alloy. even the doors and original cobra bare alloy doors form the 60’s. AC Alloy Peddles 3) the rear truck compartment is all 100% alloy. all beautifully crafted from that early era. MECHANICALS: The AC Cobra is powered by a 289 4. 7 Liter Ford motor. mated to a 6 bolt Ford 4 Speed. The rear end looks like it is from a TVR. This Cobra has the correct 90” wheel base and 67” wide track. The car weight 400 pounds lighter than the original 427 Cobra. She also is upgraded with Rack & Pinion Steering and more advanced front adjustable coil springs & A-arm front suspension. As well as fully independent rear suspension with coil-overs as well. The resulting car is a Cobra that outperforms the original on the track. And that was with the factory 260 HP 289 engine. This package makes her a big red Ferrari eater - just like the original AC Cobra! The acceleration on this car is nothing short of "take your breath away" fast and with the more modern chassis & suspension it handles like a slot car. THE REST: The interior is all business. Alloy everywhere. Big Kill Switch. original cobra buckets. original era Simpson 4 point racing belts. Real roll bar. All gauges work. had auxiliary electric fan. She runs cool in hot weather with the fan on! “AC “clutch and brake pedals. All turn signals. driving lights & horn all work! Beautiful Black Tonneau cover - tonneau tailored to the cockpit with period correct snap fasteners and a zipper down the middle. still in excellent shape. I am 6’1” + 210 pounds and I fit comfortably. She is in great mechanical condition. Starts 1st turn of the key after a couple pumps on the peddle. New Hallibrand alloy wheels mounted with race knock off adapters. Good rubber. Excellent brakes. front discs & rear drums like the original street cars work very well. Built in the early 70’s. all parts and components are from that era. This is not a modern flashy & cheesy Cobra kit car. She is instead the Ford dealer’s street version (no side oilers). The look is “original. used. a garage find and a driver”. She has some fade to the original “lacquer paint” and some minor wear to the alloy. which only enhances her “authentic vintage race car looks”. I purchased this old AC Cobra recreation about 17 years ago from an elderly mechanic. who acquired it in England in the early 70’s and imported to the US. He has since passed away. So. I am not 100% sure why she is titled as an AC Ace from 1964. She comes with a clear and open title; she is titled as an AC Ace and has an AC vin number (BEX1183). The good news is the old look to her and the old title and vin number make it EMISSIONS EXEMPT in all 50 States including California! This vintage race car is simply awesome to drive. add to that the overall beauty of the machine is stunning. It does not look like a shinny Shelby Cobra Kit Car. like everything else out there. She looks very old. plus sounds and handles better than the original. I have an important family purchase coming up and must sell her. Thought I would never. But things changes with time. Must sell the Cobra to raise cash. I have an important family purchase coming up and must sell her. Thought I would never sell. But things changes with time. Give me a Jingle anytime to discuss (313) 414. 3540 She is for sale locally and I reserve the right to end the auction early. Will sell to the right high bidder. Don’t hesitate to reach out to me. This is the chance you have been looking for to get back into Vintage Sports Cars for a fraction of the original. Hard to tell this one apart. This Cobra is located in Flagstaff. Arizona. Highly recommend you came visit for the day. inspect and test driver her. Feel free to contact me anytime. day or night (313) 414. 3540. ----------------------------------------------------------- Vintage Offroad is located in Downtown Flagstaff. Arizona. 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Shipping is the buyer's responsibility. However. We can arrange wholesale shipping to any location in the United States. Canada or worldwide. Send us your address and we will get you a price for transport. International Buyers – Please Note: Before bidding please do your own research regarding shipping and handling charges to your country. We can assist you in arranging wholesale shipping and give you estimates. Import duties. taxes and charges are not included in the item price or shipping charges. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding/buying. ********************** Reference info… From How Stuff Works: Although the two Mark III models -- 289 and 427 -- looked basically alike. they differed in almost every other respect. The most obvious one was the engine of the new 427 model. named for the cubic-inch displacement of its big-block Ford V-8. In addition. it sported a new chassis. new suspension system. and important changes to the body shell. With this brutish engine. the Cobra Mark III was sold only in the U. S. Its European cousin. the AC 289. retained the small-block V-8 of the earlier Mark II Cobra (see Shelby Cobra 260/289 and AC 289). Both Mark IIIs continued with the basic ladder-style tubular chassis inherited from the AC Ace. though with larger-diameter tubes spaced further apart. Coil springs replaced the old transverse leaf springs front and rear. still acting on classic. independent double wishbones. ********************** Buyer's Guide from Hemmings Motor News BODY: Despite what you might think. or what your brother-in-law might've told you at a car show in 1979. there were no original Cobras built with fiberglass bodies. All were aluminum. New Shelby Cobras can be ordered with fiberglass bodies. however. and it wasn't unheard of for an original Shelby Cobra to be running around with an aftermarket fiberglass body. Parts for original AC bodies were expensive. and difficult or impossible to locate. so after an accident. owners might've had little choice but to go with an aftermarket body. "Cottage industries sprang up to supply fiberglass bodies when someone needed a replacement--often after balling up their aluminum bodywork. Scudder said. "We know of several cars that were re-bodied with fiberglass back in the day. " Among the biggest problems with original aluminum bodies today are botched repairs and metal fatigue. "Over the years there have been some horrific repairs performed on aluminum bodies involving chicken wire slathered with body filler. Scudder said. "You don't know until you delve into it what's going on. " Scudder said that the bodies are strong but are prone to cracking and tearing. "What happens is the aluminum bodywork fatigues. They all develop cracks at the leading edges of the doors and by the door catches. Many of them have developed stress tears at the front edges of the hood and the valley into the headlamps. You get tears. and they have to be welded. The bodies are surprisingly strong in spite of their inherent weaknesses. " "A lot of them are banged up. Comer said. "They were just a car at one point. and people went out and used them. The bodies and chassis flex. the bodies crack and you need to look out for rust in a damp climate. The main chassis tubes are rust-resistant enough. but the outriggers and stamped sections rust. " The leaf-spring and coil-spring Cobras have different bodies to account for differences in width and tire size among other things. but share windshields. hoods. trunks and doors as well as some trim pieces. RITZSITE. com The end of the original Shelby Cobra in the US didn't mean the end of AC's production of the Cobra though. Since AC still had quite a lot of parts of the Mk II Cobra in stock and the Cobra's demand in the US was declining AC decided to introduce the Cobra in Europe. Figuring that the big block 427 version wasn't very practical in European conditions anyway AC produced a version of the Mk III coil spring chassis fitted with the 289 ci engine. The car was officially named the AC 289 since Ford had registered the rights to the Cobra name but of course everybody called it the AC Cobra 289. The first AC 289 left the factory in 1966. but it didn't prove very popular. The 2-seater roadster was considered old fashioned and its appeal didn't really catch on at the time. AC sold the last 289 in 1969. 2 years after the last Shelby Cobra 427. and only 32 were produced. practically half the amount of Mk II Cobras sold by AC in Europe previously. AC went on producing the very expensive but beautiful. Italian styled AC 428 coupe and convertible which underneath resembled the Cobra 427 Mk III but was more a grand tourer than an all out racecar. And AC held on to all the production tools for the Cobra. which proved almost invaluable later on. In the late 1960s and early 1970s the Cobra's fame dissipated. The value of the in total 1003 produced Cobras shrunk rapidly and it was hard to sell one. but then the tide turned. With modern road cars being rationalized and stripped from exciting but dangerous features in the name of safety and low insurance costs a sort of romantic craving for the brute cars of the past set in. This was felt mostly by the boys and young men who grew up with the myths of the Cobra and were dying to experience one. Since there were so few around and owners held on tight to their cars the value of the Cobra increased to a point that it became interesting to make replicas. During the second half of the 1970s various Cobra replicas emerged. The success of these resulted in a new and improved AC 289 Mk IV appearing in 1981 which was manufactured by CP Autokraft of Brian Angliss under an agreement with AC Cars. Later on Ford licensed the Cobra name to Angliss to distinguish his "official" replica from all the other replicas that had appeared. often of inferior quality. and Angliss took over AC Cars when the company ran into financial trouble. Attempts were made to revive AC with new cars named Ace and Aceca which were less than successful. but reproducing the Cobra using the original tools and moulds meant a continuing source of income for the struggling AC Cars for the last couple of decades. Meanwhile John Tojeiro has attached his name to a Cobra replica produced by the British Dax company and Carroll Shelby first started completing "leftover" 1966 Cobra 427 S/C models in 1989 and then introduced his own replica Cobra in 1995 (known as CSX 4000. named after the continuation of the original chassis numbers). Then some bickering started about who owned the rights to what regarding the Cobra. but ultimately the dust settled down and history repeats itself: starting from 2004 Shelby Automobiles will offer the Shelby AC Cobra CSX 1000 (meaning the new chassis numbers will precede the original CSX 2000 (Mk I & II) and CSX 3000 (Mk III) numbers). with chassis and body produced by AC in Britain using the original tools and then shipped over to be completed by Shelby in the US. A car conceived more than 50 years ago and still touching the hearts of car enthusiasts; the characteristics of a true classic. ~ VIDEOS ~ Full Walk Around. Starting her cold. Electricals - walk around CHECK OUT THE INTERIOR "A" PILLARS! ONLY ON THE ORIGINAL AC COBRAS HAD THIS DESIGN copyright 2015 - Vintage Offroad Inc AC. ACE. COBRA. 289. 427. competition. racing. factory. original. Carroll Shelby. Shelby cobra. daytona. Mustang. CSX. nbsp; Jaguar. Bristol. ford cobra. shelby cobra 427. Shelby America. cobra replica. replica. cobra kit car. Autokraft. backdraft. factory 5. factory five. AC shelby. ac cobra. 1964. 1965. 1966. 1967 On Jan-08-15 at 23:51:53 PST. seller added the following information:Many images of the Undercarraige. Chassis. Suspension. Differential and Exhaust system. Cll with any questions. On Jan-10-15 at 01:30:31 PST. seller added the following information:More Detailed Photos: Undercarriage. Frame & Suspension