Seeking an AC 289

[Mark IV]

...brokered a deal for a very nice 87 MK IV few years back that went to a customer in Ohio (I had sold his brother a MK IV back in 1985) This car had an excellent sounding exhaust system with Borla mufflers that made it the sweetest sounding MK IV I have heard. Alas the convertors had been removed although the original exhaust with the convertors was included. My customer took the car for inspection as it was and Lo and Behold the car passed the "sniff test" without the convertors! I guess the EFI was clean enough to meet the standards for an older car!

As to the need for more power, I sold a lot of MK IVs to guys who had plans to "tweek them up" but few ever did. One guy did go with Gurney-Weslake heads and Webers, another did a supercharger but most found they either did not need more power or decided against the expense.

Today with the proliferation of 5.0 power parts it is easy and not expensive to gain another 100 HP with perfect reliability and smooth operation.

And yes, you can buy a MK IV for less than some Cobra replicas and have a proper built and engineered factory AC.

FYI, AK013 has been converted into what the owner alledged was the "only factory MK IV comp car".....ownership history that includes Edsel Ford- RUBBISH!!!!!! The car was an early MK IV with a stock 351 truck motor that I sold to a guy in Oregon. It was later modified to include a S/C style dash, an old style pedal box and other comp car type stuff. The car was never owned by Edsel, although he did drive it and show it to the Ford dealer council as part of the Autokraft/Ford linkup. This car was featured in a magazine article that quoted me (I never spoke to them) as part of his attempt to legitimize the car. The cars is painated a rather un-attractive shade of blue that Brian picked out to match the blue in the Ford oval but he missed and it was singularly a bad color...

Rick