Pipe Dream

[flounderbout]

I came quite close to getting a Cobra replica last summer having seen a couple of the AC's in my local garage for a fortune. Went as far as going down to Sovereign http://www.sovereigncarsales.co.uk/and getting a part exchange quote on my car at the time.
Ultimately decided it was just a little bit too impractical - it really is just a fair weather toy, and far too much cash to have wrapped up in a toy.
Beautiful though, and omg what a noise
If I won the lottery though it would be first on the list...

[madmanc]

Funnily enough, despite the Cobra being pure sex, if I had to choose one to own and use, it would be the Escort - as long as it's BDA engined

I know the purists would say NOOOOOOO but the BDA engin with a 16v Warrior head. Mmmm

[DaveHMS]

This is available

The sales guys operating out of our local Toyota garage in Henley have this for sale for those that have the required dosh.

1966 registered AC COBRA 427 Mk111 LHD Chassis number COX 5012.
Rebuilt and refurbished by AC Cars in early 2000s with a Certificate of Authenticity by AC's Chief Engineer John Owen. It is finished in dark blue with white stripes and
Have black leather seats. This fantastic car was owned by AC Cobra guru Trevor Legate and is featured in his well known book "Cobra the First Forty Years”. It has just been serviced at the specialists Jim Stokes Workshops and has been inspected by Marcus Pye "lovely a piece of kit" for its FIA HTP papers which are on their way and will entitle it to be entered for Historic race events, its FIA HTP No is GB7192.
This is a very rare car and is a fantastic investment opportunity. It has MOT and with only 71 kilometres on the clock you can drive it on the road or race it. Either way it is stunning. The car comes with all documentation from AC Cars and a soft top.

[Sancho]

The sales guys operating out of our local Toyota garage in Henley have this for sale for those that have the required dosh.

1966 registered AC COBRA 427 Mk111 LHD Chassis number COX 5012.
Rebuilt and refurbished by AC Cars in early 2000s with a Certificate of Authenticity by AC's Chief Engineer John Owen. It is finished in dark blue with white stripes and
Have black leather seats. This fantastic car was owned by AC Cobra guru Trevor Legate and is featured in his well known book "Cobra the First Forty Years”. It has just been serviced at the specialists Jim Stokes Workshops and has been inspected by Marcus Pye "lovely a piece of kit" for its FIA HTP papers which are on their way and will entitle it to be entered for Historic race events, its FIA HTP No is GB7192.
This is a very rare car and is a fantastic investment opportunity. It has MOT and with only 71 kilometres on the clock you can drive it on the road or race it. Either way it is stunning. The car comes with all documentation from AC Cars and a soft top.

And how much is the required dosh? I've driven one of the replicas and it was about the most terrifying thing I've ever done.

[yoshie]

I'd like it to look exactly the same as the one pictured, i'll probably buy a complete shed or a shell as cheap as possible & take my time on it for a year or so.

My old 1600 sport, Alan found it for me in a farmers barn only had 38k on the clock. We spent a whole summer getting back to it's best.
I also owned a lovely mk1 rs2000, god was that car fun when you are 20.
Alan has had a few mk1 and 11s but this 1600 sport which I ended up selling to him, was something special when it was finished.




One of our mates lovely mk11 he spent a couple or three years doing a shell up restore on it. Just finished last year

Oi Yoshie - stop stealing my dreams !!!

I had the chance to buy a Shelby approved replica a few years ago but couldn't justify it ... It had a 289 engine and they let me fire it up in the showroom - the subsonics bouncing off the wall at tickover were enough to turn your innards to mush

I'm currently looking at 3-4 years of poverty putting my three kids through uni so all dreams of a mid life crisis motor are in cold storage

I feel your pain mine are coming on 16yr and 17yr and both Uni bound by the looks of it.

[si tate]

Very nice examples, just how I like them to look.

[dieselboy]

Nice pics yoshie.

I dont have many of our classic fords but it's like every other person has some kind of classic ford around our way, mainly the mk1's though. As didnt want to copy everyone else but still wanted to "be involved" I bought a mk1 XR2 and basically the same spec engine.

The burgundy one is a friends I was working with at the time. We were about 19 or 20 then. I remember he paid stupid money for some weber 40 DCOEs as the factories had ceased to make them any more and prices went through the roof. Then word was they began making them, or equivelants.

The Anglia had the same spec engine as mine and the red mk1 on the bottom is running a 2.1 pinto I believe. I was at the pod just viewing when his son in a toyota starlet with similar engine ended up folding the prop shaft in half and it flew out from underneath and onto the grass. It was bent in an L shape when he went back to pick it up!

[madmanc]

I had an old magazine that had the Devils own Fords, both with 2.1 pintos in one was a Mark 1 and the other a Mark 2 they were putting silliy amounts of BHP out (not by today’s standard) but omg I would have loved one of those.

We are harking back to the old Class B Rally car days I think has recently been reminiscing about on here but watching a Mark 2 Escort howling through the forest with Roger Clark at the wheel makes me smile and think those were the days.

[Apache]

We are harking back to the old Class B Rally car days I think has recently been reminiscing about on here but watching a Mark 2 Escort howling through the forest with Roger Clark at the wheel makes me smile and think those were the days.

Oh yes... Russell Brookes in the 'Andrews Heat for Hire' Chevette. Didn't they also run Manta 400s? I remember Roger Clarke in a Martini (I think) Porsche 911. Possibly the loudest rally car I've ever heard! Hannu Mikkola coming past with his navigator sat on the rear spoiler because he'd just torn a front wheel off his Sport Quattro on a tree stump. Frozen feet after standing in a welsh forest since 4am to see 2000watts of headlamps come past at mach 2.

yes, those were definitely 'the days'...

[madmanc]

Oh yes... Russell Brookes in the 'Andrews Heat for Hire' Chevette. Didn't they also run Manta 400s? I remember Roger Clarke in a Martini (I think) Porsche 911. Possibly the loudest rally car I've ever heard! Hannu Mikkola coming past with his navigator sat on the rear spoiler because he'd just torn a front wheel off his Sport Quattro on a tree stump. Frozen feet after standing in a welsh forest since 4am to see 2000watts of headlamps come past at mach 2.

yes, those were definitely 'the days'...

LOL I completley agree, up to your knees in Snow in Sweet Lamb, Hafren and the likes listening to the distant crack of the silence to see who would be through first. Then as you grow up watching the Group B Audi (or was that listening to the Turbo Chirp) and seeing it sliding all 4 wheels round the corner you were stood in the middle of. now its all closed off.

[yoshie]

Oh yes... Russell Brookes in the 'Andrews Heat for Hire' Chevette. Didn't they also run Manta 400s? I remember Roger Clarke in a Martini (I think) Porsche 911. Possibly the loudest rally car I've ever heard! Hannu Mikkola coming past with his navigator sat on the rear spoiler because he'd just torn a front wheel off his Sport Quattro on a tree stump. Frozen feet after standing in a welsh forest since 4am to see 2000watts of headlamps come past at mach 2.

yes, those were definitely 'the days'...

Andy you really need to attend the Mull rally one October.

[Apache]

Oh I will do, dont worry. All that old metal would make me pee my pants!

[tintin]

If we're going to talk pipe-dreams then this has always been mine...................

http://www.classicdriver.co.uk/uk/fi...lCarID=1804506


Note the quote.....


While in Holland, it has been maintained by renowned 959 specialists, who last serviced the car in 2008 at a cost of over €8,000.

'Appy days'