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Originally posted by Trevor Legate
They were in the process of looking for a V8 but Shelby had first call on the new lightweight Ford engine. Would AC have come across that when it reached production? Very likely. Would they have made a car as good as the Cobra became. I doubt it!! But they would have built something like it. In my opinion, based on conversations with Derek Hurlock.
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Wasn`t there some suggestion that AC looked at the Buick V8 (long before Rover got hold of it...) but the volumes involved made it uneconomical?
And... let`s face it, AC had been making cars for nigh on 60 years by the time the Bristol engine supply was a problem, so if the Ace had disappeared without an engine, AC would have made another car of some sort, as they eventually did with the ME3000, and continued with government work, subcontract engineering, or whatever..... they wouldn`t have just curled up & died because a Texan with a plan
didn`t show up!