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Old 08-15-2011, 10:25 AM
Trevor Legate Trevor Legate is offline
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That was at the Haynes Cobra Day...dunno...2005? Time flies when you're having fun...I guess I didn't help rocking up in a Superformance Daytona :-) You gotta laugh.

The MkV was beyond bad and the MkVI is still based around a kit-car withever way you slice it. Jurgen Mohr knows his stuff of course, but for me...sorry, never an AC for all the badges you slap on it. The company formally known as AC is now a badge-engieering entity, having missed the simple trick that Carroll Shelby has pulled off. This is due to the management not understanding the market and having no respect for its past. If AC had opened a small business selling rolling chassis at an fair price which would enable an owner to easily complete a car that would have an AC badge and entry into the club archives, then it would still be making money, as Shelby Automotive appears to be doing (I'm sure I'll be corrected on that one). I could continue and could post a lot more, but my lawyer says.....

I've had many conversations on the topic with Steve Gray and if nowt else, he's no fool..... ;-)
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