...but I don't understand. Aren't original AC Ace cars worth $250k or so in
their own right? I mean, that's an expensive car to use to make a clone...
Am I wrong?
On 8/5/10 10:29 PM, "michael king" <michael.s.king@gmail.com> wrote:
> This has been done several times. and in several itterations.
>
> There are early aces.. with the slightly earlier style ace body than the
> conbra had that have had the "cobra" parts fitted.
>
> There are the correct body Aces that have had the cobra parts fitted..
> thouhg the guards have not been lipped as per cobra.
>
> There are AC Acea coupes that have cobraised..
>
> there are Ac's that were rebuilt by autocraft (AC cars in the 80's) that
> were converted to cobra spec...
>
> ultimately.. none of them are cobras from the original run of cars.
>
> On 6 August 2010 11:28, drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com> wrote:
>
>> This one might qualify. Has it been done? Has anyone taken an AC ACE and
>> installed all the items that make a Cobra a Cobra and called their new Car
>> an AC Cobra? While this isn't teh same thing as two different cars made by
>> the same company and then having parts from one added to the other and
>> calling it an Alger. Close but not yet quite the same.
>>
>>
>> mayf
>>
>> Teepen, Jere wrote:
>>
>> How about an AC Ace with a Ford V-8? Instant Cobra?
>>>
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>>> On Behalf Of drmayf
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>>>
>>> CoolVT@aol.com wrote:
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>>>
>>>> **
>>>> In a message dated 8/5/2010 11:44:15 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>>>> drmayf@mayfco.com writes:
>>>>
>>>> I cannot recall (maybe bad old memory cells, lol)
>>>> of any other car which has been modified to resemble a different
>>>> model
>>>> of the same manufacturer having a split name of the two different
>>>> models.
>>>>
>>>> ** *How about Chevelle and Corvette..........Chevette. Of course it
>>>> hasn't been modified or doesn't look like either;-)*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry, doesn't qualify by the stated rule I made above. A checvelle was
>>> not made into a corvette by adding corvette junk to it. Now vice versa.
>>> Chevette was and entire new product line from the maker. Score 6 those for
>>> thinking, lol...
>>>
>>> mayf
>>>
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