£145,000? It's much cheaper to buy a real AC Cobra Mk IV - probably very much less than than half this price. Good luck to Rod Leach because this is his living, BUT this car has zero provenance.
The facts are that in the early 1990s Bill Monk advertised his capabilities to build copies of the Ace. He had three chassis made. He built this copy of a 2.6 for himself but needed to sell it, unregistered,unpainted and untrimmed not long after. In this state it was advertised by the puchaser in Classic and Sports car about three years ago with a photo, It has since acquired a saloon identity. Of the other two chassis, one was made up as an Ace and Monk says he sold it to someone who races an Ace historic events (!). The third became an Aston Martin DB3S copy with an Aston Martin 3 litre engine, gearbox, fibreglass body, 1950s Aston identity and went abroad.