Russ Swift sent me a couple of period photos of an Ace which he used to own, BE1199, which was rebodied with a Cobra shell At Thames Ditton as a possible contender, but I think I can just about make out front & rear bumpers in Ted’s pic, which aren’t on the Acebra! The wheels appear to be a deeper dish than above too, which they would need to be to fill Cobra arches on an Ace chassis. But, the front overriders appear taller on Ted’s pic than they do on the ‘JAP1D’ pic...or is that just a trick of the angle the photo was taken at...AAAaargh! 🧐
(I think we have decided that BE1199 is the ‘Cobra’ that Twiggy posed on in 1966, and that had a radio aerial then, but it’s not evident in the pics from Russ...and since Russ sold it, the Cobra body has been removed and BE1199 now looks like an Ace again!)