AC Aceca-Bristol, chassis BEX 653
One of the 328 Acecas hand-built at Thames Ditton between 1954 and 1963. Build data below is compiled from the AC Owners' Club registers and owner submissions; owner details are never published. Entries drawn from the April 2014 Aceca register were transcribed from a two-column document, and some history notes were affected; entries where this could not be resolved are marked unconfirmed.
Build record
- Variant
- Aceca-Bristol
- Year (from ex-factory date)
- 1958
- Ex-factory
- 07/03/1958
- Original engine no.
- 100D 785
- Original colour
- Silver
- Original trim
- Red
- Country
- France
- Data confidence
- Confirmed
Known history
Appeared in '65 film "Pleins feux sur Stanislas". Was owned by Georges Maitre but stolen from him in Paris in 1977. Original engine 100D 785 is now in Aceca AEX 779 that had no chassis plate but at some time purport to be BEX 653. AEX 779 now listed at an Auction in 2023.
Source: AC Owners Club, Aceca Bristol Register (4 January 2023)
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