AC to make nine new Cobras: A special run of nine ￡500k Cobras will be built to the exact spec of the 1962 original

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AC Cars is planning a 'legacy' series of nine new aluminium-bodied Cobras, priced at ￡500,000 before taxes and built to the exact specification of the very first 1962 Cobra, which was sold at auction in Monterey a few weeks ago. That sale raised ￡10.2 million and made the original Cobra, powered by a 260-cubic-inch (4.25-litre) Ford V8, the most valuable road-going British car to have been sold at auction. The nine new cars will be known as the AC Cobra Mk1 260 Legacy Edition. They will be handbuilt at AC Heritage, whose factory is based in the converted former Brooklands Members' Hill restaurant and operated by car dealer and AC historian Steve Gray.