AC Cars had retained the original blueprints and drawings used during the 1960s to construct the timelessly appealing Cobra in partnership with Carroll Shelby.

Three decades later, the company rights having been secured by Brian Angliss’s Autokraft outfit, which specialised in restoring Cobras, exacting continuation cars could be created.

Compared to the partially modernised examples from Shelby, AC engineers worked using the very same tooling, suspension uprights, and parts suppliers.

Similarly, the body panels were still hand beaten and shaped using an English wheel to remain absolutely faithful to the originals.

From a batch of 16 examples, the body for COX 6136 (the chassis prefix denoting a CObra for eXport) was finished on 10 April 1996.

The next month, per the Shelby American Registry, it was shipped to the USA as a “roller”.

Delivered unpainted to Ford/AC dealer Dave Wagner, it was purchased new in July by renowned Cobra specialist Mr Bill Kemper of Illinois, complete wit...