Brian Angliss was not adverse to spinning a little tale to sell cars!
No, they did NOT have the ORIGINAL AC 427 body bucks, the ones I saw circa 1985 were recreated in FRP.
He also often quoted the 2000-2500 man-hours to build a MK IV. Brian Burford, the works manager at the old Brookland shed told me "If we took that long to make one, we would be way upside-down" or something to that effect. He also confirmed that to Paul Thomas, another MK IV Ford dealer some time before Mr. Burford's unfortunate demise.
This takes nothing away from te high quality that Autokraft put into every car I saw. Just that the reality and the story told were just a little different....................