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I finally managed to decipher the AC codes, as you will see in my next post. Not easy, they left a lot of blank spots in their ledgers. Sunman was right, (take a bow) on the AE and BE for AC and Bristol engine. Sorry, no CObra, but there is Cobra. It was a lot of fun, even the AC Owners Group did not have all the answers! Rinsey Mills book Original AC Ace & Cobra, has the basic vin numbers, but not most of the codes. E. Wilson McComb's book, AC (Shelby) Cobra has a lot of the definitive codes, but some had to be deduced from other AC cars. A fun fact, in Mills book he stated, and I am paraphrasing, if you take all the Ace based cars, Ace, Aceca, Cobra, and even throw in the AC289 cars, it totals less then the second year of export only Jaguar E Types.
I will leave you with one of the fun stories that people at AC swore was true, but I have my doubts, still funny. Apparently, a while before the Cobra was even started, a storeman at AC knocked on Derek Hurlock's office door. Said he had a mystery engine, "an engine? What kind of engine?" "I don't exactly know, Mr Derek, for there wasn't no paperwork, but I think maybe it's Japanese. It says FOMOCO on the side of it."
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