In 2009, the South African company Perana introduced the Z-One, designed by Zagato. The project came back in 2012, under the name of the British brand AC, historically specialised in Cobras. This nice coupe, which borrows its V8 from the Corvette and was to relaunch AC, was finally not produced. The project was abandoned because of a manager whose financial past was questionable.

Thanks to Carroll Shelby’s intervention in 1962, this nice barchetta with a tubular chassis could be equipped with a big V8. But as soon as 1953, the Ace already had the same lines. Actually, the career of this pretty two-seater started with a 2-litre 6-cylinder engine developing 100, then 120 hp. It is particularly well reproduced by NEO since July 2012.