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The AC Cobra was the brain child of the late Carroll Shelby and it remains one of the most iconic cars ever built.

Shelby's crazy idea of ‘shoe-horning' that 7.0 litre monster of an engine into a lightweight body and chassis was truly inspired.

The Cobra was never produced in great numbers and not surprisingly a ‘Genuine' Cobra with matching numbers and correct history is a rare and expensive beast.

However the concept was not a hard one for the ‘Replica' manufacturers to emulate..

take a powerful engine like the Ford small block V8, the Rover 3.5 V8 or various Jaguar derivatives ...

then build a near copy of the striking Cobra bodywork out of fibreglass or aluminium and they were well on the way to producing a similarly striking and exciting motor car but at a fraction of the price.

So a thriving ‘Replica' industry emerged and ‘The Fake Snake' was born ...

AC were not happy! One o...