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I have no connection to this auction offering but complete kits, ones that have not been robbed of their canisters and ancillaries are not for sale very often at any price.
   
   
   http://www.ebay.com/itm/1962-1963-1964-AC-SHELBY-COBRA-FORD-FAIRLANE-NOS-Remote-Fuel-Filter-289-MUSTANG-/290639148917?hash=item43ab717775&item=290639148917&pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr
   
   
   Early Cobras used this design before Ford changed the Fairlane fuel pumps to include an integrated fuel filter. I don't know when that happened but HP260s and very early HP289s used them.
   
   Dan
   
   PS Found this image on the Fordimages.com site.
   
   http://fordimages.com/perl/magnify_popup.pl?imageID=68204&staticImage=C&alt=0

Great, a new forum section. How about a couple of pictures from a recent gathering of original Cobras and 427 Cobras in the U.S.A.?
   We even had an original owner and his Cobra in the group.
   
   
   Dan
   
   
   
   
   

Does anyone know if there is a source for replacement knob emblems or even the entire knob assemblies? Thank you.
   
   Dan
   
   
   
   

Hello.  I have included images showing two different parts. The part on the left was reported to have come from a 1952 Saloon. The one on the right is of uncertain origin but was at one time with Cobra CSX2033, a car that didn't go to California when new. Comparison wise, beyond the obvious:
   
   • both appear to have been made of some type brass alloy. The one on the left appears to be a die casting while the other part appears to have been a pressing in sheet metal.
   
   • both were originally fitted with an alignment pin in lower center, the one on the right has had its pin broken off. The pins appeared to have been brazed on prior to chrome plating. The pin locations from center are the same on both.
   
   • both threaded center posts are made from brass flat head screws in ¼ BSF thread that were brazed to the main discs.
   
   • the part on the right is slightly larger (about 0.05 inch) in diameter.
   
   Various articles on the prototype Cobra CSX2000 indicate that when the car arrived in California it was wearing this style "AC" emblem, which Shelby and crew removed. Pictures taken by the original owner's family of CSX2001 new show it to have this style emblem on the front of the car. CSX2001 and quite a few early cars never went to California. The emblem shown on the right was with CSX2033 at some point in time. Since that car didn't go to California it is possible it wore at least one AC emblem but the one shown here (on the right) is so much different than the really nice heavy casting on the left I have assumed the one on the right is not a genuine AC Cars piece.
   
   Is there anyone on the forum that might be able to confirm the part on the right is not an AC Cars production part? Or maybe it is?
   
   
   
   
   
   Dan

The image below is of the ball joint parts from a Cobra. One of the parts in the assembly is a black molded rubber dust boot (under the stop nut in this image). These boots are often in bad condition or missing all together. The only service part I have found through Cobra parts dealers in the USA are made of an almost clear translucent plastic that seems to be fragile or ones molded in black rubber that are about 125% larger and might be some type service part for tie rod ends.
   
   
   
   
   Does anyone know of a source for the Cobra size molded rubber service replacements for these rubber boots? Thanks for looking.
   
   Dan

Original cast aluminum Cobra spare tire holding nut wanted. Will buy outright or try to help you find something for your original Cobra in trade. A Cobra owner whose car still has its original wing nut took these images for me.
   
   
   
   
   I have been using a reproduction since 1983 and would dearly love to find a nice original. This part is nearly, excluding exhaust piping, the only original metal part my old car is missing.
   
   Thanks for looking.
   
   Dan Case
   CSX2310
   CSX2551
   rollright64@aol.com