Chassis No.

BEX259


Engine No.

100D 586



In the fertile years that followed the Second World War, Britain's motorsport landscape buzzed with gifted individuals who built lean, purposeful machines from little more than ingenuity and determination.

John Tojeiro was among the finest of that generation, and his collaboration with the Hurlock family, proprietors of AC Cars, gave the world the AC Ace.

Reportedly the most photographed car at the 1953 London Motor Show, the Ace was built around a slender tubular chassis clothed in an exquisitely spare aluminum roadster body, with fully independent suspension at all four corners.

Worthing-based tuner Ken Rudd persuaded the factory to substitute the far more muscular 120-horsepower Bristol engine beginning in 1956, transforming an already accomplished sports car into a genuine racing proposition.

The Bristol-powered Ace duly acquitted itself with distinction at Le Mans across five consecutive seasons, crowning its competition career wi...