Allegro II show car--one site says it was on Cobra chassis

[bitzman]

In Legendary Ford magazine I have been following the story on restoration of the "Italien" show car, a Thunderbird, and found there's a website involving old dream cars and on that website I found a mention of the Aurora II show car, which I remember as a gold open roadster which I thought was cut down from a red coupe show car, the Aurora. but on this website they say under " Allegro :

"Anticipating the design of the Mustang 2+2 fastback, this concept car was also fully functional and was built on a Cobra frame. It was later heavily modified into a trendy roadster in 1968 and was renamed Allegro II. "

The credit goes to Mark S. Gustavson Concept Car Photo Archives.
I'm doubting Ford had a Cobra chassis at the time the first Aurora was shown, but then I don' t have my Mustang library with me to look it up the first time the Aurora was shown.

Here's the website but they don't have pictures up yet of the Aurora II.

http://www.customclinic.com/Concepts/FoMoCo/fomoco.html

Any Ford old timers have an opinion on whether this candy gold (open version) or candy apple red (coupe version) was Cobra chassied?

[computerworks]

Can't believe everything just cuz it's on the internets.

I wrote an article on that series a while ago..

http://www.clubcobra.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50601

"Following that, in 1962, came THREE concept cars called the second-generation "X-cars".
They were the Allegro, the Mustang II and the Cougar II"

Only the Cougar II was on a Cobra chassis.

...plus, we had that car at SAAC-29

[bitzman]

That's one problem with the internet,there is no overall editor to say
"go back and check your facts."
but since the Mustang II was built on a 1963 Mustang chassis (must have been pre-production)
there's still a chance the Allegro II was built on a Mustang chassis, but I have to check on when it was first pictured in magazines. I wonder if the Allegro II still exists? The Mustang II does, in the Owls Head museum.

[shlby66]

In regards to the one-off Ford styling projects, utilizing Cobra chassis, this is
known to be fact:

The Cougar II Built on an early 3" lear spring Cobra chassis. This has been
positively identified as CSX2008.
The Cougar II was on display at SAAC-29 in Michigan.

The Bordinat Cobra Built on a coil sprung Cobra chassis. This has been
positively identified as CSX3001.
The Bordinat Cobra was on display at SAAC-29 in
Michigan.