Hi dkp,
No problem to get it registered actually if the car was actually homologated in France at the time.
In the case of the cobra's , AC's has never been registerd officially as a car builder in France.
To my knowledge there are only 2 AC autokraft that have been officialy registerd in France in the 1980'S1990's. I know of a 3rd one that has been officially registerd couple of years ago after years of battle.
so in this case of an AC, what you need to do is go through the FFVE (antic car federation) and provide as many information as possible that proves the car is above 30 , then they will confirm officially that the car you want to registerd is a "true" authentic and moreover they can trace it is more than 30 years old (requisit for them to consider the car "antic").
Through negociation, I manage to convince them with the hammered AKnumber as well as reference of the official Shelby registry (that includes AK's) that the car was a "real one" - Moreover in the shelby registry, there is no refernce to the VIN number so it confirms that from the currently available infos the car seems not to have a VIN.
I keep my fingers crossed, hopefully I shall be able to find my way through to successfully registering in France but ... hard work
Many thanks again for your help
Laurent