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Old 12-06-2009, 10:23 AM
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At a car show over the summer, ran across an original AC Ace. Thought I would share some pictures of it. Still in restoration mode so it was a little rough in certain spots...but what a treat to see. Spliced a pic together with the SPF to show the evolution to the Cobra.

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Old 12-06-2009, 10:43 AM
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Nice. There's a lot of class to the lines of that front end.
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Eric - there was another one in Royal Oak at an A-Zone saturday cruise in . all original, in fact, so much patina it was ratty ........but the guy drove it and loved it . He said he was going to restore it . Maybe we will see it at the Woodward Ave cruise next year . Bill
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Old 12-06-2009, 02:41 PM
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Eric,

Nice pics of the AC. Canepa has a fully restored one that I've seen a couple of times. Beautiful car.

http://www.canepa.com/inventory/coll...l_1/index.html
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Sweet, love the Ace.....
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Doug - the one for sale at Canepa is a beauty!
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That's very cool. Mine's actually the same color.
That is one loooong emergency brake handle!
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Nice pictures,have always loved the small two seat sports cars.
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thats the little beauty that started all of this...................
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Old 12-08-2009, 12:30 PM
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The 1940s and 50s are filled with beautiful, unusual cars that no one today has ever heard of. The Ace is, I pain to say, a relatively common almost-a-Ferrari knockoff of which there were dozens. Too bad Shelby didn't land on, say, the BMW 507...
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