Auckland Cobra

Auckland Cobra was a New Zealand builder of AC Cobra replica cars, founded in the Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe by Rotorua-born Rex Garland. Garland, previously working in Canada as a paramedic, became fascinated by a genuine Shelby Cobra he photographed at a small airfield there in the early 1980s, and on returning to New Zealand began researching the car in detail. In 1983 he started drawing full-scale plans from his…