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British AC Ace Returns On a German Platform

Filed in archive AC Cars by Philip Powell on December 13, 2006

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One of my all-time-no-excuses sports car loves is the AC Ace, especially when powered by a Bristol 6-cylinder engine (which led to the type being described as an AC Bristol). I first came upon one at the spring Hockley Valley hillclimb north of Toronto. I was competing in a much-modified VW and between runs seated myself among the trees to watch competitors hang it out on the winding gravellinks road. Peter Hayes' AC Bristol blew me away with its performance and the Bristol's sweet sound. As almost everyone knows, the Ace was subsequently transformed by Carroll Shelby into the sensational AC Cobra. That might have been the end of it but AC's owners and enthusiast groups have longed for a rebirth without a monstruous American V-8, and now a British firm is poised to do just that. Project Kimber has purchased the rights and tooling for the Smart 2+2 that DaimlerChrysler unfortunately abandoned, and as reported by Autocar plans to revive it as a mid-engined (not front-wheel-drive, as I had erroneously reported) AC Ace coupe and roadster.


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