By Leftlane Staff
Thursday, Nov 17th, 2005 @ 9:07 am

Legendary British carmaker AC Cars has agreed to begin building its cars in the United States, in an effort to increase its U.S. sales. The cars are expected to sell for between $90,000 and $150,000, according to Peter Sleight of the The Hartford Courant. The company is most famous – at least in the United States – for its collaboration in the 1960s with Carroll Shelby, the Texan and race car driver who got the idea to drop a 302-cubic-inch Ford engine into the lightweight aluminum AC Ace body and chassis. The result was the Cobra, the many versions of which have become some of the most collectible and copied sports cars made, explains Sleight. The classic Cobra shape will get its latest incarnation in Bridgeport as the AC Mamba, a coupe version of the convertible AC Ace that should be available by 2007, the company said.

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