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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / Re: 3 speed transaxle wanted

« on: June 18, 2022, 20:35:39 »

David Hescroff has advised me that he has a 4cyl type axel in his loft,  it might have come with the 12/40 that I had, although I suspect it wont have the sports ratios.  If you make contact with David he would know more.

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / Re: 3 speed transaxle wanted

« on: June 05, 2022, 08:09:03 »

Hope the axle rebuild goes well.  I read the article in the current issue of  The Automobile about your car,  I assume that this was written before you bought it.
Back in the 1970’s/80’s I had the other 12/40 sports,  I recall that 1st and 2nd were noisy, the car easily hit 70mph and Cruised along at 60mph with no trouble.  The brakes were not good!  Subsequently the car had a Belgium owner who had to have the axle rebuilt.
The clutch was of the in or out variety which made smooth take offs difficult and hill starts were best avoided,  it may be this aspect is what caused your half shafts to suffer.  Perhaps your car has more forgiving clutch lining……..

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General Forum / Re: AC Prototype

« on: April 27, 2022, 09:00:51 »

Robin I quite understand your comment ‘join the club’,  I was a member for many years, owning a 12/40 sports, 16/80 comp, Cobra. All the cars did a lot of miles.  I was also the Cobra registrar for a while.  I parted with all my cars in the 1990’s.   But still retain an interest and occasionally via this forum hope I have added something.   But I just don’t want to be a member of any more clubs and the associated cost and post.

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General Forum / Re: AC Prototype

« on: April 26, 2022, 05:55:21 »

Thank you sundude, that’s the one, I managed to misread the registration number.
Is it the car that initially was going to house the flat 6 engine,  what a shame that it never got to production, it did look good.

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General Forum / AC Prototype

« on: April 24, 2022, 19:39:44 »

Last Friday I wandered round a rather posh car show and spotted an unusual AC,  described as a 1962 prototype and registered 4000PE.

I feel sure I remember the number from somewhere, but old age is catching up and I can’t remember what the car actually is.

I have a photo but have failed miserably to post it.

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Ace, Aceca & Greyhound Forum / Re: AC Ace project

« on: March 17, 2022, 07:32:17 »

The auction details reference the fact that even a chassis is regarded as a replaceable spare part. As I understand the various legal cases on this subject, continuous history is the vital point, would the fact the the chassis was scrapped a while ago and not replaced "in a reasonable time" cause problems for registration in the future?

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Ace, Aceca & Greyhound Forum / Re: Greyhound to be auctioned on March 16th

« on: January 31, 2022, 06:47:29 »

What an unusual auction description. A little precis of AC cars 1950’s history, but nothing about the car.
It does look to be a nice (Bristol engined) one.

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / Re: JPH696

« on: November 10, 2021, 17:00:34 »

https://www.prewarcar.com/what-s-the-name-of-the-game

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / JPH696

« on: November 09, 2021, 09:28:47 »

On Prewarcar.com this morning a photo of what looks like a prewar AC chassis, with the number plate JPH696
Anyone know any more?

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / Re: Covid-19

« on: October 14, 2021, 10:50:24 »

You have my full understanding,  I had lunch out with neighbours last Thursday,  the neighbour tested positive on the 12th, so I did a LF test which was instantly positive and had a PCR at our local testing station (most efficient) 10hrs later I got the positive result.  I now feel that I have a mild cold and a bit of a sore throat.
My horror was filling in the track and trace form!

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Ace, Aceca & Greyhound Forum / Re: AC Ace rear view mirror

« on: August 22, 2021, 08:21:15 »

A run of good reproduction ones was made in the US, see http://www.clubcobra.com/forums/originality-forum/142628-lucas-104-a.html

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Ace, Aceca & Greyhound Forum / Re: Oily speedometer

« on: April 07, 2021, 05:53:22 »

I would not regard this as a learned reply,  but is it possible that the new gearbox has the speedo drive turning in the opposite direction, thus the scroll is pumping the oil up the cable rather than back into the box?

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Ace, Aceca & Greyhound Forum / Re: speedometer cable/drive part

« on: March 03, 2021, 13:27:06 »

Would it be worthwhile speaking to one of the specialist firms who make or repairs the cables, e.g. http://www.speedograph-richfield.com/

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General Forum / Re: March Tourers exported to the USA

« on: February 06, 2021, 17:43:10 »

In the advert (prewarcar.com) for L550, it states that the US exports had a wider body,  I know that most of (all?) the US cars had wide track axles but to my eyes, from the photos, the body looks the usual width but the wings look wider.

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General Forum / Re: Carroll Shelby's personal Cobra 427 sells for whopping price

« on: January 21, 2021, 08:53:31 »

CSX3015  A lesson to anyone thinking that it's easy to make money on these cars, bought for $5million in Jan 07 sold for $4.65million eight years later.  Were the prices inc. buyers premium and presumably the sale incurred commission, so the real loss was probably nearer $1million.
However it's all relative to someones wealth!