AC 2-Litre

The AC 2-Litre was the car with which AC of Thames Ditton in Surrey restarted car production after the Second World War, and it was built from 1947 until 1956. Saloons were sold with two doors and, from 1952, with four, and from 1949 a small number of drophead coupes and Buckland tourers were also made. Under the aluminium panels on a wooden frame sat a conventional steel chassis with rigid axles and semi-elliptic leaf springs, and for the first time on an AC it had hydraulic dampers. Its six-cylinder 1991 cc engine, with a wet liner and an aluminium block, was the unit the company first offered in the AC 16 in 1922, now fed by three SU carburettors and rated at 74 bhp, later 85 bhp. The car changed very little in ten years, and its engine outlived it in other AC models until 1963.