<b>A Small world indeed</b>.
Receiverd a few emails from Dave & Bill
( Daves Mom Lorraine.... is Bills Sister )
Wayne Laker was Lorraine's boy Friend in the 1960s and he bought a Ace Bristol. Went racing and Courting and took a few pictures of any Ace or Cobra they encountered.
copy of emails below...[
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<b>Hi Keith, </b>
Not sure why those links to my Photobucket account didn't work, perhaps as it was an email sent via the forum..?
Interestingly enough, just a few days ago, I was telling my Nephew, (not my Mom), about your car, and your heroic efforts on tracing out it's history. He's a vintage motorcycle
and car buff, and he was quite enthusiastic about things like that. So I sent him a link to the AC Owners forum, as well, so he could read the continuing thread on BEX333.
After I sent you that email this morning, I rec'd an e-mail from him, telling me that he had contacted you, and had sent you the same photo's. It was actually his Mother (my Sister),
who's boyfriend (Wayne Laker), from back in the day, owned the Bristol pictured. I think he had recently gotten copies of those photo's from her, and had just sent copies to me a few
days back..
Now here is something else he mentioned in that latest e-mail, that may get you excited.
I quote from his letter.
"My mom took all those photos..the white car (is actually an ACE Bristol) with a Cobra 2.6 front end, as that is what that Keith guy just emailed me back.
There was actually a few other photo's of the Ace, and other photos which I realized were not Wayne's car. I didn't make a copy of a dark color Ace, parked in a grass field with softtop
and washington plate bolted on lower front drivers side. I didnt think much of it..but then looking at that Keith guys history on his BEX 333 he has some old photo of his car
(which was a washington state car) and it looks like the same car, so unknowingly it looks like I have some photos of his car too! I am going to get those next visit for him. Funny world eh?"
So here may be yet, another link to your cars history! I'd really like to see all the photo's he has rec'd from my Sister..Might be some other's in the mix worth having a copy of...
Hopefully he'll scan them for me.
I know my Sister did got to Westwood a few times, while she was dating Wayne. I can well imagine her snapping photo's of anything AC related, probably at his urging..
I saw an Ace Bristol about..hmmm.. maybe 15 years ago, in a Vancouver shop called XJ Motors. The car's owner was getting an estimate on the cost of mechanical repairs,
perhaps as a step towards restoring it. I told the shop owner, who I knew, through business dealings, that I always wanted one, and a bit of my history with the Ace. The car remained at the shop for several weeks, although I never did meet the owner. One day it was gone. I asked the shop owner what happened to it, and he told me that the owner decided the cost of restoration was going to be more than he could afford, and sold the car for $6000. Boy was I upset that let that one slip by me..sheesh..I never dreamed he would sell it..
The color of that Ace is somewhat foggy, it may have been green, or perhaps white.
I know it was not red. The paint was in poor shape, that I remember.. So perhaps somewhere in Vancouver, another Ace is parked..
I digress..lol
So anyways, I gather that you now have the pictures I was trying to send you..I posted them on the owners club forum as well. Guess I made a mistake in presuming the white AC pictured was a Cobra, as I wasn't aware somebody re did the front end..huh..
Cheers, Bill
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Keith Lessiter wrote:
<b>Bill</b>
Thank you for your email, BEX333 left Thames Ditton painted White, then during racing period with Jim Parsons 1958 through 1964 was repainted Light metallic blue. Then repainted Red..[
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The late Widow Mrs Joanne Parsons told me the Ace kept getting hit and was repaint a few times and said it was beige at one point. All this in it's first 7 years.
I have registration numbers for BEX333, hopefully the pictures you have may well depict my Ace, Unfortunately I cannot open the pictures/links. Sorry to be a pain but if you did send link to pictures for some reason I could not open them,
Could you please email in Jpeg some time at your convenience.
If the Ace in Question is not BEX333 then I can go
through the AC Ace Bristol Register and the AC Ace register and hopefully ID the Ace, then forward onto the latest Custodian, whichever way you look at it will be appreciated.
Cheers for Now. Have a good Weekend........... Last but not Least Thank your Mum for the pictures and story..[
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Regards
<b>Keith</b>..[
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-----Original Message-----
From: panorama20@gmail.com [mailto:panorama20@gmail.com]
Sent: 07 September 2012 18:13
To: keith.lessiter@faac.co.uk
Subject: Sent From AC Owners Club by AC Bill
<b>Hello AC Ace Bristol</b>.
You received the following message from: AC Bill (panorama20@gmail.com).
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At:
http://www.acownersclub.co.uk/forum/ Keith,
My sister's boyfriend, Wayne Laker, back in the early 60's, (in Vancouver
BC) owned this AC Bristol. I sure wish I knew it's serial number, or what
may have happened to it. Unfortunately I have no idea of the previous owners
name, nor the fellow who owned it after Wayne. The story is that the fellow
who owned the Bristol was getting divorced, and the Wife sold it for a mere
$600, likely out of spite. Apparently the husband approached Wayne, to buy
it back, but that didn't happen. After Wayne drove it for a few years, he
traded it straight across for a Cosworth powered Lotus 23b, on a trailer,
and with a 1957 Chevy for a tow car. He ran the Lotus at Westwood for a
couple of seasons, before trading it all, and getting a 63 E-type
convertible.
The Bristol was painted red in these photos. These were taken shortly after
some damage was done to the nose of the car, on the body just under the
grille. Apparently by a tow truck. Wayne had the car re-painted the same
red, when the repair was done.
This is the car that started my life long love of the AC's and Cobras. These
photo's were taken in front of the home where I grew up, in Vancouver, in
approx. 1962 or 63.
Unfortunately I do not have copy, so cannot repost, Thankfully it was not BEX333. If it had been, then I would have
definitely kept a copy.. ...Keith ..
Any chance your car was ever painted red back in the day?
Regards Bill Regards, <b>Bill</b>..[8D]
Unfortunately The dark Ace is not BEX333, however the other pictures you mention of the Red Ace with the Washington Plates could be BEX333... []
<b>Bill & Dave posted pictures on separate thread on Our Forum.</b>
Lets Hope there 's a picture or two of BEX333, in Lorraines Photographic archives ..[?]..[:p]
