Chris-Craft Cobra

A fast mahogany boat with a gold fin behind the driver, in the tail-fin style of the cars.

The Cobra was built for only one year and in about fifty examples. The fin took up the forms of 1950s American cars.

Materials: Mahogany, fibreglass; one inboard engine

Manufacture: Built in Algonac, Michigan.

The gold fibreglass fin.

The single cockpit for driver and passengers.

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