@lacsar: That he did - When Bristol ceased building their 6-cylinder engine in 1961, AC's owner, Charles Hurlock, was approached by Carroll Shelby to use a Ford V8 in the Ace chassis, producing the AC Cobra in 1962. Production of the Ace ended the same year. The AC Cobra came in small block and later big block configurations. It was Ford's 289 that powered the winning car in the GT class at Le Mans in June 1964.[citation needed] At the time, the AC Cobra 427 was the fastest "production" car in the world.
Ah yes, the AC Petite. At the time they came up with that (before the BMC Mini changed the way miniature cars were built forever) there were thousands of this type of two-stroke vehicle around. My least favourite was the Opperman Unicar. THAT was the kind of thing a Communist country would come up with. In fact, they did....
