And there aren’t many sports cars that sound like the new AC Cobra 378 Superblower MkIV either, or which will make you feel so uncaringly good about life when you’re behind the wheel.

In the ’70s, AC began to sell tooling for the Cobra, both chassis and bodies ... who began to build new, “Mk IV” Cobras on the original bucks. Angliss, who died early this year, was ...