Cobra article alert

[TLegate]

For those who recall the AC Cobra - the current issue of C&SC includes a feature about CSX2001. Usual smug "I blagged a freebie to California and got to drive this" stuff but pics by the excellent James Mann. Not a big article, but even so.....

[strada5300]

I liked the pictures but was disappointed they didn't have more old art
   showing the car with that odd hardtop that looked like a 250LM and also
   thought the owner should have painted the car the color it was sold in.
   Were any other Cobras retrofitted with 289s in that shop in France?