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The back fenders of that Aceca coupe remind me of a 51 Henry J.

Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Great story Bob thanks for sharing Don

Hi Uncle Bob,thanks for the story and photos. Is your neighbour Tony Haliday by any chance?? I knew some Haliday brothers from here in Auckland that built,raced and maintained race cars of the same as that type. Another person that I had the good fortune to meet before he passed and was so knowlegdable was John Olsen who use to work for Carrol Shelby building Cobra's. He was the most amazing bodyman creating aluminium bodied Cobra's
which when he returned home to NZ he continued to do with permission and exported genuine ali bodies to the USA. One of his last projects was a Coupe just like the one in the photo I believe. I saw the bucks he was making to form the body panels on on my last visit and some of the front panels he had already formed. I am also aquainted to Charlie Wallace whose brother lives and works in the US somewhere who is a engine buider of some fame I believe.

Thanks for the info, Bob! I'd heard of the cars before, never have seen one! The huffer on the SBF certainly did catch my attention!

No whip, his last name is Garmey. That's him in the green Tshirt in the background of the Devin. He's acquainted with another Cobra industry Kiwi who's been here a long time, Ron Butler who used to work for Shelby and has been in the Cobra replica business for decades.

Hey,thanks for the pix uncle Bob,,some interesting stuff in there,for sure..Didnt know about the v8-60 Ardun heads either,,bet they worked well in those little engines..
These Kiwis pop up everywhere,dont they..Seen any mountain men from Rahotu in your travels lately??? They whizzed[sorry,wrong word,probably]thru the bottom of South Dakota,last week.

No Robin, no sign of Johnboy.........................but I'm hiding from Rosie anyway............

Great pics Bob, Thank you for sharing!

Any companies buiding that cobra body that you know of? Would make a great driver being enclosed.

Don Jr

The closest I've seen in the Cobra replica world was a sloping, detachable hardtop that was available years ago. I think it was Midwest Cobra, or Shell Valley, but not sure. It did nothing for the looks of the car so didn't sell very many I'd guess.

Bob,
I wonder how the Ardun heads got knocked off in South America for Simca? Are there was no patent coverage on them there.
Ken

I don't know about that Ken, you've got more patents to your name than anyone else I know................at least since Tom Edison died.

Those Simca heads were late '60s stuff, so wouldn't the patent have expired by now. If there's any ownership left it would be in Chrysler....ooops, scratch that, Fiat's name (or would that be the UAW?). I know that Simca bought Ford's design/tooling for the V8 60, but did they design their own heads using Ardun as a model but with enough tweaks to avoid patent infringement? Beats me!