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Mk IV, Superblower, CRS and other Continuation Cars Forum / Re: AC verses the Shelby community
« on: February 05, 2019, 09:15:05 »
An interesting question you pose. Just what is the Club's position (official and unofficial) on the Cobra Mk 4?
In all the years I have been a member of the Club I haven't seen anything that would spell out the official position. I have always assumed that as Autokraft had bought a license to the use of the name from the license holder, and applied that license to their product as they had evolved it and that as the name Cobra had been licensed by Ford to the same company who had repeated the exercise the car was an AC Cobra and it was on that basis the Club recognised the car as an AC product.
I know that some in the Club in posts made have been very focused on drawing a distinction between Thames Ditton Cobras and AK serial cars (making them 2nd class citizens as it were) but I can accept that (Talbot and Sunbeam owners feel the same about Sunbeam Talbot) but if your logic is followed and the Club doesn't accept Mk4s as genuine AC's then why have I been paying a membership fee for all of these years to a group of people who don't want to recognise my car?
I recognise that this question must also apply to Mk5 and Mk6 cars and I suppose whatever comes next.
Sorry if this has all been aired before but if there is an official position I've never seen it and now that our cars are being written out of the Shelby World Register I think it is beholden on the Club to make its official position known.
In all the years I have been a member of the Club I haven't seen anything that would spell out the official position. I have always assumed that as Autokraft had bought a license to the use of the name from the license holder, and applied that license to their product as they had evolved it and that as the name Cobra had been licensed by Ford to the same company who had repeated the exercise the car was an AC Cobra and it was on that basis the Club recognised the car as an AC product.
I know that some in the Club in posts made have been very focused on drawing a distinction between Thames Ditton Cobras and AK serial cars (making them 2nd class citizens as it were) but I can accept that (Talbot and Sunbeam owners feel the same about Sunbeam Talbot) but if your logic is followed and the Club doesn't accept Mk4s as genuine AC's then why have I been paying a membership fee for all of these years to a group of people who don't want to recognise my car?
I recognise that this question must also apply to Mk5 and Mk6 cars and I suppose whatever comes next.
Sorry if this has all been aired before but if there is an official position I've never seen it and now that our cars are being written out of the Shelby World Register I think it is beholden on the Club to make its official position known.