POPULAR COBRA RELATED WEB SITES.
| Cape Cobra Club (This site) | www.capecobraclub.co.za |
| Cape Cobra Hire | www.capecobrahire.co.za |
| Cobra Club of SA | www.cobraclub.co.za |
| Cobra GT40 Club of Kwa Zulu-Natal | www.cobragt40.co.za/sites.htm |
| Cobra Club of UK Forum | www.cobraclub.com |
| Cobra Club of USA Forum | www.clubcobra.com |
| General Cobra info including history | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Cobra |
| General Cobra info including history | http://www.xs4all.nl/~luukb/index.html |
| Weineck 12lt Cobra (scroll down for info) | www.seriouswheels.com/cars/top-2006-Weineck-Cobra-780cui-Limited-Edition.htm |
| Franschoek Motor Museum | www.fmm.co.za |
| Cobra Accessories & parts (USA) | http://finishlineaccessories.com |
| Europaspares (UK) | www.europaspares.com |
| Stafford Vehicle Components (UK) | www.s-v-c.co.uk |
| NF Auto & Car Builder Solutions parts (UK) | www.nfauto.co.uk |
| Summit Racing (USA mail order) | www.summitracing.com |
| CAV Auto Futura | www.cav.co.za |
| Superformance | www.superformance.com |
| Kit Car & Cobra magazine (UK) | www.kit-cars.com |
| Classic car events | www.dyna.co.za/cars/events.htm |
| Backdraft Racing (International) | www.backdraftracing.com |
| Backdraft Racing (Local) | www.trtec.co.za |
| Motostars Action Vehicles | www.motostars.com |
| My Cobra Build – Peter V | http://cobrabuild.blogspot.com/ |
| Stateside Auto parts – SA | www.stateside.co.za |
| Motown American Autoparts – SA | www.motownauto.co.za |
| AC Cars heritage | www.acheritage.co.uk |
| Gauges | www.speedhut.com |
Cobra Registration process (Aug 2014)
Day 1
1 – Write an affidavit and have it signed at a police station stating you built a car. You need to include the invoices for the major components too. Once complete go to your local police station to have it signed and stamped.
2 – Go to your local traffic department and get the paperwork you require to be completed for police identification. This is date stamped and you get a certain number of days to complete it so get this a day or so before you tackle the process.
3 – Go to the police vehicle clearance center (Stikland) or Bellville (your traffic department will tell you which one to go to based on your residential address). Stikland is better so try to go there. Also, all the services are in and around Stikland. NB, if you go to the one, you must stick with them for the whole process. Don’t try to swap halfway through.
Location Bellville Police Clearance
Stikland Police Clearance
Geographic orientation of both centers.
Form 1 is completed and a VIN (vehicle identification number) and “unique number” are allocated. If you have machined the engine number off the block you need a police affidavit from the machinist that did it including the original number.
4 – The “unique number” is stamped onto the car in a position you choose. In fact, they gave me the special letter stamps and told me to do it myself. Note, this process causes considerable damage to paint/powder coating. The number has to be visible for an inspector standing up and on the ‘chassis’ of the car. IE – not on the body. Make sure the position is accessible as you need to get a good swing on the hammer.
5 – From there you have to go to a machine shop of your choice where they stamp the engine number onto the block and VIN number onto the chassis. If you take a set of stamps you could do it yourself, there and then. I went to a place opposite the Stikland gate. They charged about R120 to stamp the numbers. The guy who does it is an ex policeman so knows what is required.
6 – Then you go back to the police clearance center for them to take photos of the numbers.
7 – Now you can go to a weigh bridge to have the car weighed. I went to one close to the Stikland center (see map below) (Lavender Street, Stikland)
Weighbridge, roadworthy and number stamping place location WRT Stikland SAPS VCC
8 – Once this is complete all the papers need to go to your local traffic department I went to Goodwood traffic as they are close to my place of work. They were very efficient. They take all your papers to add your vehicle to the state traffic e-natis system. This can take a few days/weeks so that’s where you leave it while you wait for a phone call from them to commence with stage 2. FYI, it took them 2 days to call me back.
Day 2.
9 – On receipt of the highly anticipated phone call you go back to your local traffic department and collect another load of papers.
10 – You head back to the same police clearance center you used before for “police clearance” that is performed using the numbers previously stamped right there.
11 – Once you have clearance you need to have identification dots (microscopic dots) sprayed onto your car in over 80 places. There are a lot of places to choose from for this. I went to a place opposite Stikland SAPS. Cost is around R800 and it takes about 20 minutes.
12 – Then roadworthy. This includes checks of brakes, suspension, lights, engine, etc. Cobras can pose a problem here as they are too low to get on the rollers for brake testing. Tell them about this before booking and paying and ask if they can be sympathetic. Also, if you can rotate your left side pipe down do it so it can’t ‘blow onto pedestrians’ – if not take a chance.
13 – once you have passed roadworthy its back to your local traffic department with all the papers you have collected. With all these papers you unlock the ability to register the car as you would normally with any car
14 – At registration you are allocated a registration number.
15 – The final step is to get registration plates made and attached to vehicle along with a registration disc that is displayed in the windscreen.
Some other important facts:
1 You have to drive the car to these places.
2 To drive the car you need a temporary license or trade plates.
3 The car must be painted – so don’t think of doing this before painting.
4 If your motor shows up as stolen on the system you will have to ‘surrender to state’ and leave it at SAPS – so take some spanners along in case.
Good luck!
Tarren Smith – completed this process in July 2014.