My Car Quest

March 19, 2024

Editorial: A Matter of Pedigree

by Wallace Wyss - It is oh-so-fashionable nowadays to do a DNA search to see if you have any relatives you didn't know about. My own niece did it and discovered she had a half sister. Well, cars have DNA too. Sort of. So when I saw this … [Read more...]

A New AC Cobra is Coming in 2023

by Mike Gulett - Carroll Shelby likely would not be happy to hear that AC Cars has introduced a new version of the AC Cobra. We remember how upset he was when AC and Autokraft and Ford introduced the AC Cobra Mk IV in the 1980s (see what he said … [Read more...]

A Day In The Life

How a Cobra is the raison d'etre for a famous Beatles song. by Wallace Wyss - I don't have Sirius radio, but whenever I have a test car that does, I tune to the Beatles Channel, where they have experts that go into each of the Beatles … [Read more...]

The Mystery Cobra Still Confounds Historians – AC MA200

by Wallace Wyss - Now some historians lay into A.C. Cars Ltd, the fabricators of the Cobra, saying they were crude builders, with no finesse, no modern engineering. Some of that’s true. But there is one prototype that is out and … [Read more...]

Rare Classic Cars – A Short Video – Rare Birds No. 1

by Mike - Below is a 3:14 short video featuring a few rare cars that we do not see everyday or Rare Birds as I like to call them. This is Rare Birds No. 1 and I plan to produce more in this series. I hope you enjoy the ride. Watch the video … [Read more...]

The AC Cobra Mk. IV

The most fun was the Angliss-Shelby fight - in the pages of CAR magazine… by Wallace Wyss - The AC Cobra, as most Cobra fans know, was developed from the AC 2.6 which was a later model developed from the AC Ace, which had gone into production … [Read more...]