Likely to be remembered as much for his lengthy legal scuffles – Shelby wasn’t a fan, and he dramatically fell out with Ford – as the cars he produced, Brian Angliss was Mr Autokraft. Having started selling spares in Chessington in the 1970s, he built a successful parts, replica and conversion (Daytonas) business at Brooklands in Surrey. There he came up with the US-focused Cobra MkIV with AC’s tacit approval (via the Hurlock family), and eventually won the right to badge his car an AC even before he bought the company from the Hurlocks in 1986. His new Ace drove him to the edge, however, and in March 1996 Angliss’s company went into receivership, to be bought by Alan Lubinsky.