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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / Interesting AC barometer from 1920's

« on: October 27, 2017, 16:15:13 »

A promotional item, an interesting barometer in Art Deco style (probably from the early 1920's) showing 'AC - Britain's leading light car'; sold today at auction:
   
   

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / Watch 'Ripping Yarns' and a vintage AC

« on: September 23, 2017, 22:55:22 »

Watch a good black comedy, featuring crankshafts, camshafts and carburettors, and from the outset, a vintage AC 12/24.
   
   Now, on YouTube, a 1977 episode of Ripping Yarns. Michael Palin in ‘Murder at Moorstones Manor’. The very first line is ‘The old AC’s going jolly well’.
   
   Enjoy the comedy thriller and the car!
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjDBxkhiILc

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / 'An evening run over the Wiltshire Downs'

« on: September 04, 2017, 12:32:18 »

I've uploaded to YouTube a video, taken from a 1928 AC on a run over the Wiltshire Downs. It gives some idea of the typical engine noise from a vintage car accelerating, and some gearchanges through a crash gearbox. There's some wind noise on the video...
   
   Mainly, it shows the open countryside of this lovely part of England!
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rq-B8dAHcw

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / 2 litre - very good price

« on: August 14, 2017, 13:14:59 »

Looks too cheap...
   
   http://www.prewarcar.com/index.php?option=com_caradvert&view=ad§ion_id=4&id=224944&Itemid=294

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / A still from the filming of 'Peaky Blinders'

« on: May 29, 2017, 13:19:33 »

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General Forum / Queen views an AC

« on: April 26, 2017, 19:14:42 »

   
   40th anniversary of the Motability charity:
   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4444622/The-Queen-hosts-40th-anniversary-Motability-charity.html

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General Forum / AC Cars consortium buys Zenos Cars

« on: March 26, 2017, 13:33:16 »

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/zenos-saved-administration-ac-cars-led-consortiumhttp://

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / Vintage AC in 'Tutankhamun'

« on: October 17, 2016, 15:39:46 »

The mini-series ‘Tutankhamun’ (dramitised story of the discovery of the tomb) started on ITV last night and a vintage AC was one of the cars used. Shown from three-quarter rear, it looked like an early ’20’s 4-cylinder. With no rear fuel tank and the position of the spare wheel dating it to about 1923. The series is filmed in South Africa so maybe the car is the one from the Franschhoek Motor Museum? There are another three episodes to come so it could reappear.
   
   The principal car, that of Lord Carnarvon, is a Rolls Silver Ghost of course.

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / Vintage Six in 'The Long Duel'

« on: October 09, 2016, 17:43:39 »

Nice to see a 1927 AC Six featuring in the 1967 film, The Long Duel, (with Yul Brynner and Trevor Howard), on TV this afternoon. The car, reg KO 5065, ch.14201, was sold by Bonhams in 2001 but now seems to have gone to ground.
   
   

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / A vintage project for someone?

« on: September 09, 2016, 15:16:03 »

An interesting project for someone?
   
   This car is on Ebay, link below, for bids above £7000:
   
   http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A-C-COUPE-VINTAGE-CAR-1927-28-/322247356048?hash=item4b07706e90:g:BAkAAOSwOdpXxz5u
   
   Apparently, some years back the chassis, with transaxle, was removed from under wrecks in a scrapyard. The new owner, working in the restoration business, started to build a body from drawings but he has now had to stop due to ill-health. You will see the engine is not AC (it's from a Nissan) and there are many other things not right e.g. wheels, dashboard, electrics, steering wheel. The body is wrong in places e.g windscreen design but, saying all this, there is the possibility of either having a usable car or restoring further to more original. It's likely it doesn't have a V5, so chassis number may be important for the DVLA.
   
   

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / Taking a spin in a vintage AC Six

« on: September 05, 2016, 14:59:10 »

'Taking an evening spin in a 1928 AC Six', over the Wiltshire Downs, last week (taken on an iPhone!)
   
   Click the link:
   
   http://[url]https://youtu.be/cYmsbY3DJqk[/url]

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / Two notable early AC's at forthcoming auctions

« on: August 13, 2016, 19:17:30 »

Two notable early AC cars at forthcoming auctions:
   
   (1) Bonhams have the 1913 AC, 10hp Fivet-engined (see fifteen postings down). Estimated hammer price of £25-28,000. To be sold on 3rd September at the 'Beaulieu Autojumble' sale.
   
   (2) Historics at Brooklands, have a 1922 AC 12/40, Anzani-engined with aluminium pointed-tail body (one of two survivors). Estimated hammer price of £37-42,000. To be sold on 20 August at the Brooklands track

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / A Vintage Six Gathering

« on: May 17, 2016, 19:55:30 »

There are 40 vintage AC Sixes on the ACOC register, of which 28 are certainly known to survive today, though less than 20 are roadworthy. This gathering of five cars, of various body styles, was last Sunday 15 May at Minterne House, Dorset. The meeting here was to celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of the Hon. Victor Bruce’s winning of the 1926 Monte Carlo Rally in an AC. The invitation was from the Digby family who own the house and are relations of the Bruce family.
   
   Left to right: 1925 Aceca, 1927 2/3 seater, 1927 saloon, 1928 Montlhery-bodied, 1928 Aceca
   
   

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AC Weller Engine / What happened to John Weller?

« on: March 03, 2016, 10:35:11 »

Without doubt John Weller was an engineering genius.
   
   What happened to him after he left AC (no doubt due to differences with S F Edge) in 1922?

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / Anzani engined vintage AC - auction this month

« on: March 02, 2016, 11:26:20 »

Looks like a nice four-cylinder vintage AC at auction later this month:
   
   http://www.hvauctions.com/Motor_details.php?motor=151_01.jpg&pid=151&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hvauctions.com%2Fmotor_list.php