Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Stasis, So you are both wrong--- The ACECA was a coupe version of the Ace. It was available with AC engine, then the Bristol then the Ford Zephyr engine. That last engine made it into an effing PIG of a car! Few people know if the Aceca ever had a 260 or 289 V-8 Ford engines. But I do. :-X Jerry Stasys Petravicius wrote: > Frank- I thought it was the AC Aceca. Stasys > On Jun 19, 2009, at 10:29 AM, FRANK DERNIE wrote: > >> >> Hi George, >> I don't know whether you know but the car is an AC Ace, originally >> available in the 1950s with a 2 litre Bristol 6 cylinder engine. >> Carrol Shelby persuaded AC cars to shoehorn a 4.7 litre and later a 7 >> litre engine into one either for him to race or to sell, I am not >> sure. They went into production as the AC Cobra but not many were >> made. There are now many companies making replicas. Real ones are >> extremely valuable nowadays they look great but they do not drive too >> well... >> cheers, >> Frank >> >> --- On Fri, 19/6/09, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: >> >>> From: George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> >>> Subject: [Leica] IMG: speaking of transportation as sculpture >>> To: "Leica Group Users" <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Friday, 19 June, 2009, 5:00 PM >>> Excalibur version of Shelby Cobra >>> >>> <http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=1307> >>> >>> Regards, >>> George Lottermoser >>> george at imagist.com >>> http://www.imagist.com >>> http://www.imagist.com/blog >>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >>> >>> >>> _