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quote:Originally posted by Chafford I've had a look at the register, but in my opinion, the only 'Ace' in this car is its 1960 chassis number and title. The car now has a Cobra body shell and chassis, a 289 engine with top loader transmission and Cobra wheels and was built by AC in 1966 at Thames Ditton. It's a Thames Ditton Cobra and should be classified as such.
quote:Originally posted by Emmanueld In my humble opinion, unless the conversion was documented at the factory, this car is a reproduction. If AC did it, there was an invoice at the very least. It's too easy to get a MKIII chassis these days. Also the motor has a lot of modern bits like the Japanese nippondenso alternator and the horrible billet expansion box. It's a nice looking car nevertheless, but a real Cobra or Ace it is probably not. There is a guy over here who owns an Ace in crates and has mounted the chassis plate to his Kirkham. There is another area that is suspicious, the seats. Most reproduction seats have a thick backrest like those in the picture. Original Cobra seats were thin. Ace seats I don't know, please advise. Gus, replica is a better term. A fake is a car that pretends to be an original and is not. A Kirkham with a Ace or Cobra chassis number is a fake. Emmanuel[]
quote:Originally posted by TLegate If the car in question is not logged or classified in the AC Chassis Register as an AC Cobra (or Ace-Cobra if we're being pedantic) then it is 'something else'. In this case it's an Ace. Spent today watching an AC Ace being built into a Cobra in ever single respect - it is still, and will always be, a 'modified AC Ace' as that was it was originally. Might be a 'Cobra' in every single detail, but when it comes to selling time (the crunch) it is what it is - a modified Ace. Any other description can be interpreted as fraud.