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Originally Posted by Thor m[B
aine;1198998]Jus[/b]t to get things started again. I have looked in my extensive library on Cobra's and they all agree that CSX 2000 stood for Carroll Shelby Experimental!!! ALL. So what are we left with, Shelby American always referred to a CSX Carroll Shelby Experimental Ford in all in office memos refrred as CSX as Carroll Sheby Experimental . So we are left AC ,who produced the frame and body (but had no part in making it a great race car or legendary street car)for CSX 2000 but after that just happened to fit there serial numbers????? Yeah right. AC wanted to keep there hand in. But even they farmed out the bodies in the 60's , So what are we left with SAAC, so when started in 1976 was a bunch of Hot Rodders who had no connection with Shelby-Ford-AC. And they do a great job, Shelby was gone and Ford wanted nothing to do with Cobra (gas guzzler, insurance nightmare). So what are we left with 2 out of 3. So CSX stands for Carroll Shelby Experimental Boom Done.
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The general rule for AC chassis numbers was that they used 'x' on their to signify cars for 'export' from the UK.
For example, the general rule was that an AC engined Ace sold in Britain would have had the prefix 'AE', whereas one exported 'AEX'.
Similarly a Bristol engined Ace sold in Britain would have had the prefix 'BE', whereas one exported 'BEX'
A Ford engined Ace 2.6 sold in Britain would have had the prefix 'RS', whereas one exported 'RSX'
This principle was continued for the Cobra, 'COB' for cars sold in the UK as complete vehicles, 'COX' for cars exported as complete vehicles outside the US, 'CSX' cars exported to Carroll Shelby under contract.
Here are a few photos of the AC Ace 2.6 built by AC in 1961 that, to use your own words, prove that AC 'had no part in making a legendary street car'
You might also wish to contact Alan Turner, now in his 90s who was the chief engineer of AC Cars in the 1960s. I'm sure he'll be amused to be told that he
didn't carry out a significant part of the development work of the leaf sprung Cobras.
