AC Cobra Mk III for sale

[Spantik]

Landmark Cars & Co is selling a silver AC Cobra Mk III built in the Thames Ditton factory in 1966. Apparently one of the 27 manufactured.
   Details under: http://www.classicdriver.com/de/find/4100_results.asp?lCarID=1864653

[Mark IV]

Did AC supply the "289 sports" with agenerator and cable drive tach?
   I truly don't know as I have never seen a 289 sports close up. Also the engine color looks incorrect for a post 1965 289...did Brian screw up the shade?

[Spantik]

Here the original offer: http://www.landmarkcars.co.uk/stock/AC-289-V8-/6420.htm
   A hardtop is also available.

[BBK]

Very nice!  A very rare car.  Would it be fair to say that the MK IV produced by AC/Autokraft was the spiritual successor to the 289 Sports?

[rstainer]

This is COB 6105, an AC 289 Sports rebodied in 1989 in Abgliss style. If it's a Mark anything, it's a Mark II; see, for example, Rinsey Mills' 'AC Cobra'.

[TLegate]

Sold at the Bonham auction at the Revival in September for £249,020. Wonder what the asking price is now?

[rstainer]

£385,000 - optimistic for this particular car.
   
   RS

[TLegate]

Now that's what I call inflation!!

[Spantik]

Yep, so wait a couple of months and it will go off for £500,000

[aaron]

£249,00 - £385,00 , that is one big mark up !

[TLegate]

But as we all know, there's one born every minute and you can reply on the motor trade to find them

[302EFI]

An asking price of GBP 385.000 may be a little high for this particular car, but the price of some GBP 250.000 at which it reportedly sold two months ago does not seem unreasonable to me. I think for someone who prefers a 'Cobra' with rather unobtrusive, elegant looks a 289 Sports is an alternative to a 427 Street. There was another 289 Sports offered by Hexagon Classics last year, if I remember correctly the asking price was GBP 385.000 as well. Does anybody know at what price that car was actually sold?

[TLegate]

I know where it went, but didn't ask the owner what he paid! I don't think Hexagon do discounts. That was a very nice example (photos in my next book.....

[SB7015]

Was it not Radio 2 presenter Chris Evans who had the winning bid for this car at the Bonhams auction at the Goodwood Revival?
   
   Malcolm

[TLegate]

Purchased with the sole intention of making a profit - which is why the real enthusiasts are priced out of the market.