427 badges can often be the mark of a kit car/replica! Very few genuine 427s were sold in the UK, most were 289s.
Number plates I’m afraid are also no help. It’s exceedingly common to re-register a more recent Cobra kit car with an older and appropriate year plate and then display black and white plates. Hangs head in shame but I know someone who has done it! Only quick checks I know involves either looking at the tax disc, or touching it. Real ones are metal so feel cold, most replicas are fibreglass. But there are a few replicas with metal bodies. There was a real Cobra at Classics on the Common one year (a 289), but countless kit ones! rgds Martyn From: Peter Robins [mailto:robin...@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: 03 June 2012 19:59 To: mogtalk2 Subject: Re: [mogtalk2] Non Mog- Cobra Coincidentally, yesterday I parked by my boat just two spaces away from a Cobra, black-and-white “H”-reg number plates, 427 badges and all… I’m not a rivet counter, couldn’t say for sure whether or not it was a replica, but everything looked pretty old (including the Radiomobile cassette player), and the parking sticker from a London marina suggested the owner wasn’t short of a bob or two. I’d intended to have a closer look when I’d dropped some things off at the boat and returned, but it had already left. And what delayed me? One of the staff said “Plus 4?” and I replied “Wow, good call”. He explained that he’d owned a Plus 8 for five years and had travelled with it throughout Europe. But he’d lent it to his brother-in-law who was without transport and when it came to him that he hadn’t needed it or missed it - after four months - he realised that it was perhaps time to get rid of it. His comment on the Cobra? “Hasn’t got the class of a Morgan”. But as I drove to the exit there was a Maserati convertible on its way in (anybody would think there’s something special going on this weekend) and, imho, that does have the class of a Morgan. Peter ------------------------------------------- View posts on The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/mogtalk2@listbox.com/ [http://www.mail-archive.com/mogtalk2@listbox.com/] Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=22459785&id_secret=22459785-4a39ddf8 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
