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#1
General Discussion / Where have the forum photos gone?
September 02, 2024, 13:16:22
Copied from Vintage, PVT and 2-litre Forum:

Quote from: administrator on August 31, 2024, 09:28:39
I guess they didn't survive the rebuild of the Forum - apologies but not much I can do.


Disappointing, a great shame to lose those many photos of AC cars and those showing the broader early history of the marque. Over many years, I have posted hundreds of photos in the forum, many of important historical significance that had not been published nor held elsewhere. For example, dozens of unique shots of the AC works in the 1920's, showing the various departments. I remember the postings on the Sports (Montlhery) model that was privately entered in the Monte Carlo rally - a great car - I had never seen those photos before. Then there were the photos of dozens of 1920's and 30's cars, against chassis numbers, by another member. A lot of effort there, and a retrievable archive. In Jonto's case it was a valuable record of a chassis-up restoration of a vintage car. There are many more examples where this single line above doesn't recognise the wasted effort, nor the loss of such valuable material in one place.
In my collection I have dozens of AC related items, sales catalogues (I have them for every year of the vintage period and earlier), press releases, magazine articles, letters and more. When I go 'to the great car park up there' these will go to the National Motor Museum library - they will not be going to the ACOC archive...
#2
Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / Vintage Register
February 16, 2024, 17:27:27
It's 10 years since the last one! What's the chance of another issue???
#3
Chris Jaques 4/5 seater tourer is for sale. One of only two that survive it was restored some years back. Gavin McGuire has it on his website but no price is shown. It's a lovely vintage Six . For video, see here:

https://treasuredcars.com/classic_cars_for_sale/details/1928-ac-acedes-classic-cars-for-sale_3465

Also in The Automobile, the 2/3 seater registration Z1348 has resurfaced (Page 10). It was known to be in Ireland. An interesting car, likely a 12/35 on bore size. Here's my note from ACtion on it:

14330 (Z 1348)
There are comments in the vintage register questioning why this 1928 car has smaller capacity liners
(56mm cf. 65mm) within an orthodox two-litre engine and suggesting there has been a modification
for convenience, availability or taxation limitation. However, for 1927 and 1928 the factory offered a
12-35 hp six-cylinder 2-3-seater. The taxable horsepower being 12 hp, the engine size 1484 cc and the
bore size 56.3 (56x100). I suggest therefore it is highly likely that this car is a 12-35 model and that
outwardly it would show no differences to the 2-litre Six. Autocar wrote about the model in April 1927
and The Auto in November 1927. Registration number Z 1348 has not been seen for some time.
#4
I remember this car from 35 years ago! It was owned by a lady named Freda Palmer. It is just the same now, with original colour scheme (Green with red pinstripe) and original seating. It disappeared for some years, looks like some stripping started for restoration though it is said that all parts are there. This was a lovely car and was portrayed on the back cover of the Profile Publications booklet on the AC Six. It looks a relatively easy restoration, to return it to former glory.

It's on Ebay. I don't know the reserve:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374268407817?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20211130125621%26meid%3Db928346200434b8f9434ffdbfcc2ae26%26pid%3D101465%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D275471211656%26itm%3D374268407817%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D3817808&_trksid=p3817808.c101465.m3507
#5
Some time back I advised that a book was underway.

More details now available, with publication this month:

https://www.evropublishing.com/collections/all-books/products/s-f-edge-maker-of-motoring-history
#6
Interesting advert - Interesting vehicle (see attached)

#7
General Forum / The Jim Feldman Collection
June 17, 2021, 15:05:06
Some of the lovely AC cars from the Jim Feldman collection are to be auctioned by RM Sotheby's at Monterey 13/14 August 2021.

These include:

1968 AC 428 Convertible
1963 AC Ace Ruddspeed
1938 AC 16/90 Comp Sports
1937 AC 16/70 Drophead
1935 AC Greyhound
1910 AC Sociable
1928 AC Six 2/3-seater

Preliminary details are on the RM Sotheby's site:

https://rmsothebys.com/en/home/lots/mo21




#8
AC gets overtaken by boy in pedal car (well, pedal aircraft to be precise) - photo attached!

#9
Carroll Shelby's personal Cobra 427 sold last Friday at the Mecum Auction, Kissimmee for a whopping $5.94 million (£4.34 million). Here's a video of the sale:

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1130693_carroll-shelby-s-1965-shelby-427-cobra-fetches-5-94m-at-mecum-auction

#10
Photo attached.

Apart from being Managing Director of AC Cars, S F Edge was M.D of Cubitt Cars also. The car on the left, in the photo, is a Cubitt. They were declared bankrupt in 1925:
#11
Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / George Bernard Shaw
December 07, 2020, 22:24:33
Photo attached, taken December 1921, of George Bernard Shaw, playwright, political activist etc, in his AC 12/24:
#12
Although born in Tasmania, Australia, a part of Errol Flynn's private education was in London. His acting training also was in Britain so when recommended for film work in Hollywood it wasn't unusual that many there saw him as the archetypal Englishman and he was soon cast as a dashing character in action films.

It is said that he owned an AC, a 16/80 Competition Sports. The prewar US importer was 'English Motor Cars Ltd' of New York and this model, with the fastback tail (not the slab tank), was AC's attempt to enter the American market in 1936. He may well have bough the car or the marketing may have meant that Errol Flynn was approached with an offer to use one of the cars (not unusual then, nor now) for promotion - just the right image; a sporting English car for the successful 'English' actor!  The US venture did not prove successful however and most of the cars were returned to the factory in 1938. Photos below:






#14
Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / 2-litre hubcaps
January 15, 2020, 17:23:45
Four 2-litre hubcaps for sale, on-line at Catawiki:

https://www.catawiki.com/l/33196185-hubcaps-ac
#16
Here's a photo taken in Toronto, Canada in 1956.

The car still survives (only two of this model do) and has since been restored. It's an Anzani-engined 12/40 Sports from 1922. Each car was tested at over 70mph at Brooklands and certificates were available to each new owner. It was brought back to England in 1995 for auction, a few more owners and then sold again by Historics Auctioneers in 2016.

#17
Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / 1925 AC sales brochure
September 11, 2019, 12:11:50
H and H Auctions had a 1925 AC Cars sales brochure in their automobilia sale, 1/9/2019. With 38 bids the final price raised was £575. Photos below:
 
#18
Interesting photo has surfaced of a panel van made in 1914. Clearly a Fivet-engined AC made by Auto Carriers Ltd. The photo apparently was a press release, though with war looming probably got nowhere (and unlikely of use by the War Office with then the lack of engine availability from France).



#19
The VSCC Prescott Speed Hill Climb took place three weeks back. It has become a one of the finest pre-1940 display of cars, to be seen anywhere, with more than 400 visiting vintage/PVT cars in the car park alone, more in the paddock. Photos below from 'Classic and Sports Car' with the latter photo captioned 'this post-war AC Ace sneaked in....' (!):
#20
The VSCC Prescott Speed Hill Climb took place three weeks back. It has become a one of the finest pre-1940 display of cars, to be seen anywhere, with more than 400 visiting vintage/PVT cars in the car park alone, more in the paddock. Photos below from 'Classic and Sports Car' with the latter photo captioned 'this post-war AC Ace sneaked in....' (!):