DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Will watch with interest
What’s the story behind it - guess you bought it already chopped?

More cool cars from Weedon Bec.

Is the MG a kit? Any idea what the engine is?

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Rod Leach's Lotus 11 GT, alongside one of the many Cobras that have passed through his hands. I'd be happy with either of them...

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The Cobra looks like it might be 'COB 1' - which, when I last saw it ~ 35 yrs ago had 800 bhp ...


I've got a few pictures of it somewhere (taken at Silverstone) .


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Neil - that 'MG' is a one-off radically modified TF with a mid Rover V8 engine mated to a Boxster transmission ...

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I used to drool over Rod Leach's adverts... I wonder if anyone has had more Cobras pass through his hands than him?

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Me too - there were also the famous Sunday meetings at the Goat pub at Hertford Heath where people used to turn up with the most amazing (typically competition) cars ...

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Lightweight_911 wrote:.

Neil - that 'MG' is a one-off radically modified TF with a mid Rover V8 engine mated to a Boxster transmission ...

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Ok. Makes more sense now as I suspected the engine was American

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Lightweight_911 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 24, 2025 4:33 pm .

The Cobra looks like it might be 'COB 1' - which, when I last saw it ~ 35 yrs ago had 800 bhp ...


I've got a few pictures of it somewhere (taken at Silverstone) .


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I used to love his adverts in Motor Sport, I bought a poster of COB 1 from Rod Leach's stand at the motor show in about 1982 - I think at Earl's Court - and got him to sign it. I probably still have it somewhere.

We’ve spent the weekend around the Suffolk / Essex border in the lovely Long Melford and Lavenham - no Porsche just in Katharine’s Countryman Cooper S

Spotted in the Westend of Glasgow last weekend

And it had a nice reg

Although it’s a Replica

Lightweight_911 wrote:.

The Cobra looks like it might be 'COB 1' - which, when I last saw it ~ 35 yrs ago had 800 bhp ...


I've got a few pictures of it somewhere (taken at Silverstone) .


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I think cob1 was featured in the ‘ I spy’ number plates book I had as a young kid. Feature on it and owned by an elder lady who’d been done for speeding in it … as a youngster, that car in the book was my dream car

hot66 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 31, 2025 8:55 pm Although it’s a Replica

How can you tell?