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Cobra (Thames Ditton) Forum / Low milage Cobra
« on: August 10, 2017, 10:11:00 »
interesting....
   looks quite worn for 15000 miles only ...

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ACOC News and Events / Photobucket Photo Hosting
« on: August 09, 2017, 08:36:08 »
quote:
Originally posted by administrator
   
We will be getting quotes for this option, agreed at the last Council meeeting.  Don't expect anything until the autumn - I am away until September and do have a life outside the ACOC.
   

   
   Thanks, Bryan, and to the Council, for having taken this up. Quite a project ahead!
   [:)]
   Constant

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Mk IV, Superblower, CRS and other Continuation Cars Forum / WEbsite changed?
« on: July 21, 2017, 23:18:11 »
only see one photo .... with Sir John Whitmore at the right ?
   the first photo is not seen, instead the now usual invitation from Photobucket to upgrade to the Plus 500 plan to enable third party hosting of pics
   
   have a look at this thread
   http://acownersclub.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4667

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Mk IV, Superblower, CRS and other Continuation Cars Forum / Rear hubs needed, urgent....
« on: July 19, 2017, 17:41:18 »
Hi Uwe,
   I sent you an e-mail.
   Cheers
   Constant

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General Forum / What Cobra for up to £150k?
« on: July 17, 2017, 08:25:49 »
quote:
Originally posted by ak1040
   
Hi my car is on this room 1 Aug 2013 by Lux4i it is the red one
   

   
   You really mean on this thread, Neil
   
   http://www.acownersclub.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2804&SearchTerms=2013

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General Forum / What Cobra for up to £150k?
« on: July 14, 2017, 00:21:59 »
quote:
Originally posted by westcott
   
I don't know what it is, must be something in between...plate shows COX 6503, COX started with 61xx
   
   ..
   

   
   .. and ended with 61yy
   
   no clue where this COX 65.. originates from

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General Forum / What Cobra for up to £150k?
« on: July 13, 2017, 22:55:15 »
quote:
Originally posted by Chimi
   
Thanks for the feedback so far.
   
   My understanding of the MKIII 427 was the Superblower variant although I would prefer a genuine aluminium body AC and I understand that the Autokraft variants are as good as you will get to an original?
   
   
   

   A Mk IV 429 is currently available inn France

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ACOC News and Events / Photobucket Photo Hosting
« on: July 13, 2017, 22:51:07 »
quote:
Originally posted by jonto
   
I managed to download my files from photobucket, downloads should work as I think they are just asking for payment for hosting, not for your storage, a backup is a good idea, P cloud is a free cloud storage site.
   Just a thought, it my be less trouble, and less costly, for the admin to support a dedicated picture hosting site, rather than replacing the whole board software.
   

   
   So far PHOTOBUCKET has granted a certain portion of storage space for free. This equals approximately the the capacity required to store 1000 pictures. Thereabove you start paying. Off record it was about 12 £/month. They changed their plans now. They are now detecting each creation of a link for using a stored picture on a third-party site and ask to upgrade to the +500 plan which allows (for how long?) third party hosting.
   I wonder how often they will just warn me before they will force the matter and close my current account?
   
   Guess everybody inserting a picture here from Photobucket storage gets the following message:
   
   quote
   WE NOTICED THAT YOU HAVE BEEN USING
   PHOTOBUCKET FOR 3RD PARTY HOSTING*
   
   PLEASE UPGRADE TO A PLUS 500 PLAN.
   
   Our Terms of Service does not allow 3rd party hosting with your current account level.
   UPGRADE NOW
   
   
   
   
   ________________________________________
   *What is 3rd Party Hosting?
   Photobucket defines 3rd party hosting as the action of embedding an image or photo onto another website. For example, using the <img> tag to embed or display a JPEG image from your Photobucket account on another website such as a forum, Etsy, eBay auction listings, a blog, etc. is definitively 3rd party hosting.
   Why Photobucket?
   Photobucket is the global destination for linking and 3rd party hosting. In Photobucket’s 14-year history, the Company amassed over 100 million registered users, over 15 billion images stored, 2 million daily uploads and 10 billion photos accessed monthly.
   Easy to Use – Upload a photo from any device and copy the embed code with one click to host a photo with no development or technical knowledge required
   Competitive, fixed pricing Offers the only unlimited 3rd party hosting plan (Commercial and Personal Use)
   Are my pictures still safe?
   Yes! All your photos are still available by logging into your Photobucket Account. Photobucket has only restricted the ability to view your photos on 3rd party sites.
   Can I download my Photos?
   Absolutely, at any time. It is an easy four step process:
   Step 1. Login to your Photobucket Account
   Step 2. Navigate to your library page
   Step 3. View a photo and click the download button
   Step 4. The picture will be saved to your computer
   
   unquote
   
   
   The +500 plan is 399 $/year and it will not take away the cumbersome way to upload a photo to here. And it does not solve the issue of the link to the box and not to the photo as described earlier on.
   
   We need to find a way which is user friendly and cost efficient to make our site more attractive.

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General Forum / What Cobra for up to £150k?
« on: July 13, 2017, 11:48:15 »
quote:
Originally posted by Chimi
   
Hi everyone,
   ....
   I am in the fortunate position of having up to £150k to invest in the right car. My research takes me towards a MKIV Lightweight but the MKIII 427's also look interesting.
   
   ....
   

   
   Welcome to this Forum, Chris,
   
   Guess you are looking for a genuine AC Cobra?
   As mentioned before, in the AC Cobra type models you find:
   - AC Cobra Mk IV (aluminium body) generally 302 ci carburettor or EFI but also 427 ci; chassis # prefix AK
   - AC Cobra Mk IV Lightweight (aluminium body) - lighter version with specific features; chassis # prefix AKL
   - AC Cobra Superblower (supercharged 302 ci) chassis # prefix ACG and ACSB
   - AC Mk IV CRS (Carbon Road Series = carbon fibre body 302 ci EFI) chassis # prefix CRS
   - AC 212 (Lotus V8 212 ci twin turbo charged - only 3 produced) chassis # prefix CRS(L)
   - AC Mk V (composite body, 302 ci EFI, only a couple produced in Malta)
   
   Would be interested to know what your understanding is of a MkIII 427?
   
   Currently you find a few LHD Mk IVs on the German and French market within the range of you budget.
   If you need more advice, feel free to ask.
   Cheers
   Constant

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ACOC News and Events / Photobucket Photo Hosting
« on: July 12, 2017, 15:02:20 »
quote:
Originally posted by AC Ace Bristol
   
....
   I really would like to download  a copy of the complete file inclusive of pictures as I haven't copy of all content.[;)]
   
   ...Keith
   
   

   
   Hi Keith,
   
   One way to take a copy of your thread is to do a copy-paste exercise on each page, successively copying content including the pics as you can see them, into a Word document. I sometimes do this of interesting content I find on the internet to allow me to analyse it later.
   
   You go onto the first page of your thread, position the curser in top left corner and do a click-hold; you will see a number of lines being marked in blue or other colour; holding the click you drag it down to the buttom right hand corner of the page, then click right button of the mouse to select copy and then paste the copied content onto a Word sheet.
   The set-up of the Word document will not be ideal, pictures will not be aligned in the way you see on the Forum, but it allows you to save the content.
   Then repeat the same process on evey page of your thread and past the content in the same way each page underneath the previous. Easy but cumbersome.

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ACOC News and Events / Photobucket Photo Hosting
« on: July 12, 2017, 11:37:03 »
Whereas storage capacity and related cost is one issue to address, another important issue is perennity of the picture posted:
   
   - when using direct upload, pics are glued to the Forum and remain there; they can be removed by the poster himself if he so decides;
   - when using remote hosting, pics are put into a box that is located offsite and we use the address of the box to link the pic to the Forum; each photo has its own particular address, so there is one pic per box;
   if for whatever reason, the poster moves the pic out of that particular  box (because he deletes it or simply rearranges his boxes, the link remains in place on the Forum but the box is empty and the poster would have to recreate a new link and replace the old one in his post, for the pic to remain active on the Forum.
   
   Unfortunately there are many instances in our Forum where pics have been moved and hence can no longer be seen.
   
   In the tables below you see how that works. When the pic is moved into another box, the intitial box which carries the link remains empty. Moving may be done intentionally but also inadvertently (for instance when you reorganize your folders and boxes on Photobucket or thelike.
   
   
   
   
   This brings up the difficulty to convert the current Forum into an archive including pics, unless the archive would be like a PDF by scanning all pages of the Forum as they are viewed.
   
   I am not an IT specialist, there may be ways to do this.

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Mk IV, Superblower, CRS and other Continuation Cars Forum / AK 1106 rework ...
« on: July 12, 2017, 10:20:01 »
looks good, Uwe !

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ACOC News and Events / Photobucket Photo Hosting
« on: July 12, 2017, 00:09:18 »
quote:
Originally posted by AE512
   
....
   For the sake of clarity - is attaching photos to a thread on a forum in the same way as one would attach a photo to an email -
   A/ not possible
   B/ just  matter of cost
   Can someone out there with a knowledge of these things give an easy to understand answer???
   

   
   Hi Glenn,
   
   The simple answer is B: cost as a function of the storage capacity the Club will contract on the hosting platform.
   It takes 3 clicks to attach a photo to an e-mail.
   Please read my posts of 6 October 2016 at 7:23:01 and 11:26:05 on your thread about: "3-questions" and you can understand what I talk about.
   
   While we were on the International in Devon I gave our webmaster a demonstration of the site I refer to.
   
   http://www.acownersclub.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4432
   
   Cheers
   Constant

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Mk IV, Superblower, CRS and other Continuation Cars Forum / 1993 Mk. IV Lightweight, EBay U.S.
« on: July 08, 2017, 10:03:04 »
Very nice and on the button!
   
   AKL chassis tag
   body looks indeed late LW type: short nose, rear fender arches (?)
   
   obvious features differing from LW spec:
   - tank
   - windschield wipers
   - inner door panels
   - bumper suspension
   - rear panel forward of roll bar
   
   all above features may indeed relate to US homologation requirements
   
   of course wrongly advertised as Shelby AC Cobra

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Mk IV, Superblower, CRS and other Continuation Cars Forum / Fuel system leak
« on: July 06, 2017, 22:42:51 »
thanks, Rob, clear !

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