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[Would U. Believe]

...but I don't understand.  Aren't original AC Ace cars worth $250k or so in
their own right?  I mean, that's an expensive car to use to make a clone...
Am I wrong?


On 8/5/10 10:29 PM, "michael king" <michael.s.king at gmail.com> wrote:

> This has been done several times. and in several itterations.
> 
> There are early aces.. with the slightly earlier style ace body than the
> conbra had that have had the "cobra" parts fitted.
> 
> There are the correct body Aces that have had the cobra parts fitted..
> thouhg the guards have not been lipped as per cobra.
> 
> There are AC Acea coupes that have cobraised..
> 
> there are Ac's that were rebuilt by autocraft (AC cars in the 80's) that
> were converted to cobra spec...
> 
> ultimately.. none of them are cobras from the original run of cars.
> 
> On 6 August 2010 11:28, drmayf <drmayf at mayfco.com> wrote:
> 
>> This one might qualify. Has it been done?  Has anyone taken an AC ACE and
>> installed all the items that make a Cobra a Cobra and called their new Car
>> an AC Cobra? While this isn't teh same thing as two different cars made by
>> the same company and then having parts from one added to the other and
>> calling it an  Alger.   Close but not yet quite the same.
>> 
>> 
>> mayf
>> 
>> Teepen, Jere wrote:
>> 
>> How about an AC Ace with a Ford V-8?  Instant Cobra?
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> On Behalf Of drmayf
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>>> To: CoolVT at aol.com
>>> Cc: tigers at autox.team.net
>>> Subject: Re: [Tigers] (no subject)
>>> 
>>> CoolVT at aol.com wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> **
>>>> In a message dated 8/5/2010 11:44:15 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>>>> drmayf at mayfco.com writes:
>>>> 
>>>>   I cannot recall (maybe bad old memory cells, lol)
>>>>   of any other car which has been modified to resemble a different
>>>>   model
>>>>   of the same manufacturer having a split name of the two different
>>>>   models.
>>>> 
>>>> ** *How about Chevelle and Corvette..........Chevette. Of course it
>>>> hasn't been modified or doesn't look like either;-)*
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sorry, doesn't qualify by the stated rule I made above. A checvelle was
>>> not made into a corvette by adding corvette junk to it. Now vice versa.
>>> Chevette was and entire new product line from the maker. Score 6 those for
>>> thinking, lol...
>>> 
>>> mayf
>>> 
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