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1960 AC Ace 2.6 'Ruddspeed'
United Kingdom • 8 Sept 2014
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This 1960 AC Ace 2.6 'Ruddspeed' is a LHD export model that was originally fitted with an AC engine and finished in black over red trim. The car has been upgraded with an original Stage 4 Ruddspeed engine and is presented in Navy blue over a light blue interior.
Condition
8
The car has been totally restored and used extensively by Versaw on AC Club gatherings and rallies across the U.S. and in Europe. It is currently presented in Navy blue over a light blue interior, and beneath the bonnet is a lovely polished Ruddspeed valve cover that tops the Zephyr inline six, with its row of three large SUs attesting to its potency. This example is fitted with chrome-plated knock-on wire wheels, and it is supplied with Plexiglas sliding side curtains. The dark blue tonneau cover and removable soft-top with its frame are in good condition. Accompanying the car is a correct spare wire wheel and tyre, as well as a substantial file of paperwork pertaining to the rebuild, a sundry of other documents, and the aforementioned copy of the period Autosport road test.
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Transmission:
Manual
Chassis No:
AEX 1174
Odometer:
[Odometer Reading]
Reg Number:
[Reg Number]
RHD/LHD:
LHD
Est.
150 bhp, 2,553 cc Ford-Zephyr OHV inline six-cylinder engine with triple SU carburettors, uprated Ford manual transmission, independent front and rear suspension with transverse leaf springs and wishbones, and front disc and rear drum brakes.
Wheelbase: 2,286 mm The John Tojeiro-designed AC Ace was styled after the prototype, LOY 500 (itself modelled after the Carrozeria Touring-clad Ferrari 166 MM Barchetta), and it is considered to be one of the most beautiful sports roadsters of all time.
To many, the cleanly styled alloy-bodied Ace was arguably even more handsome than the prototype, and it could certainly stand on its own merits.
When the AC Ace appeared in 1953, it was built on a ladder-type frame of parallel three-inch steel tubes, a centre crossmember, and triangular sheet steel boxes at each end, which served as location points for the simple but effective independent transverse leaf/wishbone suspension, and it featured rack-and-pinion steering and a final-drive unit.
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£353,270
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£353,270
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£353,270
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