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Originally posted by Chafford
There seem to be a number of these Mk V prototypes in the USA...As well as the blue car pictured, there is also a rather lurid orange car (which I think was the first prototype)...The car is still for sale for $99,500 (Chassis No COB10003)
I think the 2 eBay cars are the only
actual prototypes that were built(or
mostly built)at Frimley before it closed, this blue one being an
actual production MkV built(or
mostly built!) in Malta, as was the orange with blue stripes one, which I guess would be ch.no COB10001.
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from BoulderSpeedster.com This AC MKV is chassis number 3 and a collectors item already.
...It is a new car, a development from the original AC ACE and the Le Mans winning cars upon which AC's post-war reputation was founded...
Here we go again!!! Which Le Mans winning Cobra?
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from BoulderSpeedster.comThe MkV shares many of the historic marque's design features and parts whilst taking the classic, original, 1950's revolutionary design forward into the 21st century....
EH?
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from BoulderSpeedster.com...The MkV carbon fibre body is moulded from the original aluminium body formers....
Really! I don`t think so!
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from BoulderSpeedster.com...The carbon fibre body makes the MkV lighter than the original Cobra and it's therefore even faster. Tweaks to the chassis and suspension make sure it handles just as well, if not better. Ventilated discs stop the car reassuringly faster than its ancestor.....
Did anyone here ever have trouble stopping their original Cobra?
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from BoulderSpeedster.com...And of course, being an original, the car's value will hold....
...at what though? [
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