When Ford decided to partner with Carroll Shelby on his Shelby Cobra, the company had a lot riding on the success of the racer turned Southern California hot rodder. But Ford was toying with the idea of building a Corvette competitor in-house for years, it only made sense that they would base it on the already successful Cobra chassis.

While most concepts never get past the drawing and modeling stages, at least three Cobra-based prototypes were built, including the Bordinat Cobra, The Cougar II Concept, and the coach built Ghia Cobra.

Motor Company wasn't the only one building one-off Cobras,

several privateers built their own cars with unique bodies mounted on leftover

Cobra chassis or converted race cars.