2004 Pilgrim Sumo AC Cobra replica, engine built by Noble Mo...

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£21,500

2004 Pilgrim Sumo AC Cobra replica, engine built by Noble Motorsport, 4,658 cc. Registration number G137 YEE. Chassis number PS200301724782682. Engine number 40604091.
Anyone with the slightest trace of oil in their veins will know the story of the AC Cobra. In 1961, American race driver and tuner Carroll Shelby persuaded British sports car firm AC to insert a big-capacity Ford V8 into its aluminium-bodied Ace, and a performance legend was born.
AC stopped Cobra production in 1968 having built just 998 Mk 1, 2 and 3 models (655 4.7 litre 289s and 343 7-litre 427s) - but that didn't quash buyer interest in this curvaceous and outrageously quick 2-seater. To satisfy a clear ongoing demand, several firms set themselves up in the replica business, usually fitting a fibreglass body and Jaguar independent suspension and differential to a robust box-section steel chassis.
Even when Brian Angliss's firm Autocraft restarted 'official' metal-bodied Cobra production with the Mk 4 in the early 1980s, there was still room in the market for good quality fibreglass replicas from outfits like Gardner Douglas and Dax - and Pilgrim, who have been building cars since the 1960s and Sumos (their Cobra replica) since 1985.
Pilgrim began in the late 1960's with the first few cars being constructed in the original owner's home garage in Sussex. Pilgrim slowly grew into the largest manufacturer of replica Cobras and Speedsters in Europe. At its height, Pilgrim was producing ten kits a week as well as building turnkey cars at the factory.
YEE was originally ordered from Pilgrim by Stuart Appleyard of Scunthorpe in March 2003 using a Mk 3 Sierra/Granada based chassis and a 1981 Rover V8 engine, with a lightened flywheel, Edelbrook carb, Offenhauser manifold. By the December it was on a rolling road and by reading through the history he was unhappy with the engine so he commissioned Noble Motorsport of Chesterfield to build him a 4.6 litre engine at the cost of £4,941.
By 2006 it was with Mr D Walker of Brigg with a cherished number of G9 BRA and serviced by Ledgerwood Motors at a mileage of 3,998. A change of ownership in 2008 to Mr Waine who bought it from GC Motors of Harrogate for £18,990 and he changed the speedo when the mileage was in the region of 7,000 miles and our vendor bought it in 2010.
MOT'd and used from 2009 until 2016 by when the mileage had risen to 6,796, it was off the road until MOT'd in June 2019 at 7,192 (total some 14,000 miles).
The car has some quality features including a lightened and balanced engine with heavy duty timing chain, Edelbrook carb, wet sump, SPAX adjustable shocks, electronic door catches, wet weather gear, Hallibrand split rims with 3 ear spinners and cream leather interior.
Offered with the V5C, MOT history, large history folder and Pilgrim Sumo build book, this is one awesome motorcar.