04-12-2006, 05:48 PM
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Senile Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Buffalo, NY USA,
NY
Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance
Posts: 4,566
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Sleepless...??? Makes me wish I had stuffed a couple of MK IV's away back then!
That "Rick Muck" guy is a real putz!!! 
Please understand that Brain Angliss did not adhere to the "rules" and there are BOTH carbed and EFI 1986 cars out there. And to futher confuse the issue, they do NOT follow numeric order. AK 113 may have been built two months after AK 129! Brian was trying to keep up with the US regulations but on average, AC's were one model year (in emissions equip) behind the Mustang that the certification was based on.
I happened to be in the works (and anyone who was in the first Autokraft "factory" at Brooklands knows how loosely that term is used) when the 1985 EPA certification paperwork was faxed from Ann Arbor, celebration followed...a fine dinner at "Les Alouetes" (sp?) in Esher and a well deserved sigh of relief as cars were ready to ship and Brians cash flow would have gotten ugly if he could not have drafted the dealer's banks for payment! 
I wish I could remeber everything about that time but I never thought it would be as big a deal as it is now....sorta like those guys who worked in that plant by the airport in Los Angeles.....
Rick 
And I do welcome any calls for information about AC Mk IVs, I will be glad to help all that I can.
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rick@autoventureusa.net
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