History

Cobra Automotive, the world leader in the vintage racing industry, is a natural outgrowth of Curt Vogt’s lifelong love affair with cars and his innate talents for tinkering, inventing, and manufacturing.  From engine building to sheet metal restoration, Cobra Automotive does it all.  “Somebody will bring in his car, either a shell or a rolling wreck, and we’ll hand him back a beautiful, well-oiled machine,” says Curt.

 The foundation for Cobra Automotive was laid in the 1970’s when teenagers Carl and Curt Vogt started buying and reselling car parts, and buying, fixing up, and reselling cars.  Curt discovered that there was a demand for rare, hard-to-find car parts so in 1979 he and a friend took out a $2000 bank loan and started manufacturing car parts in the basement of a rented house in Orange, Connecticut.  Thus, Cobra Automotive was born. 

Initially Curt ran Cobra Automotive as a side business as he worked full time jobs. In 1984, determined to take the business to the next level, Curt began building Cobra Automotive up into a viable, full time business enterprise. Two years later he moved the business in with an existing tool and die company and greatly increased the volume and variety of parts he manufactured. In 1989 Curt hired an employee and began restoring cars out of a garage in New Haven, Connecticut.

Now, Cobra Automotive owns a 12,000 square foot location in Wallingford, Connecticut and employs a staff of twenty.

Cobra Automotive offers a complete line of parts and technical services for both the open track racer and the high performance street enthusiast – it’s the go-to place for serious Shelby Mustang and Cobra enthusiasts who want the very, very best.