> From: gerry@probe.att.com
> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 92 08:38 EDT
> To: british-cars@hoosier.utah.edu
> Subject: Mid-eng cars
>
>
> Mike G asks:
> >Just of curiosity, were there any mid-engine Brit cars built?
>
> The one that springs to mind immediately is the AC 3000 ME, which was produced
> in the late 70's to the early 80's. This used a riogid chassis with a "X1/9"
> type of body but physically much bigger, and a GRP body wrapped around it.
> It used the Ford "Essex/Cologne" V6 mated to a Maxi (?) 5 speed gearbox.
>
> Quite a good looking but brutish looking car and I have never heard anything
> bad about the car by the English motoring press. If memory serves me right
> it was made in Scotland.
This was mention of a "Cobra powered" 3000 ME in one of the ACOC
news letter but this may have been a private conversion.
Roland
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