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Mk IV, Superblower, CRS and other Continuation Cars Forum / Original Tires

« on: October 03, 2006, 12:20:02 »

Last week I had the original tires on my 1985 MK IV replaced with a set of new BF Goodrich G force Sports. What a difference in the way the car drives. The originals were hard and slippery while the new tires grip like crazy.  My question is whether I should hang onto the original, date coded, tires or just toss them. They have a good amount of tread left (the fronts look almost new) and are not dry rotted. Not that anyone would want to drive on them, but maybe someone would want them for a show car or spare tire. They are 16 inch 225/50/16 fronts and 255/50/16 rears. They are the Goodyear "Gatorbacks" and were made in Luxemburg and Belgium. Any thoughts?

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Mk IV, Superblower, CRS and other Continuation Cars Forum / MK IV replacement body panels

« on: September 01, 2006, 18:09:43 »

I read an article the other night at a bookstore in either Thoroughbred and Classic Cars or Classic and Sportscar, both UK publications, that there is a body shop in Brooklands that has acquired the body bucks needed to make body panels for the AC MK IV. Does anyone on the list know about this? I'm sure there is more than one MK IV out there that has been crashed and totalled because of the lack of replacement panels.

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Mk IV, Superblower, CRS and other Continuation Cars Forum / MK IV Parts interchangeabilty

« on: August 27, 2006, 13:24:29 »

I wondered if anyone has developed a list of parts on our cars that are interchangeable with parts from other cars. I noticed that the interior light on my car is identical to the interior light on certain Land Rovers and I plan to order a new lense from the Land Rover dealer to replace my broken lense.  I only assume that AC used off the shelf parts sourced from other manufacturers in the MK IV. It wouldn't have made much sense for AC to develop its own items such as lights, switches, dashboard controls, wiper and heater motors, etc. when those from other manufacturers were already engineered and available. If such a list doesn't exist, maybe we can, with collective knowledge, get one started.  John AK1103