One-Off #19 (Deadline Jan. 2, 2022 12:00 PM CET)

[carsntrucks4you]

This is the last quiz of 2021. The idea for this car came from Matt Bacon. Thanks Matt

Deadline Jan. 2, 2022 12:00 PM CET

 

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[carsntrucks4you]

It is not a kit car!

[Ace-Garageguy]

[thatz4u]

pm'd

[carsntrucks4you]

This car was build in 1981 by Ghia vor AC it is the 3000 ME prototype.  It is not based on the Pontiac Fiero, but it focused on it as a rival so the idea of Bob Lutz former Ford president. iThe cars was later gone into production with some modifications.

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[Ace-Garageguy]

12 hours ago, carsntrucks4you said:

This car was build in 1981 by Ghia vor AC it is the 3000 ME prototype... The cars was later gone into production with some modifications.

That's not exactly correct.

The car shown above was referred to as the AC Ghia.

It was a Ford-backed re-skin of the AC 3000ME that had been in limited production since 1979, shown below, and built through 1985.

AC supplied Ghia with two AC 3000ME platforms, including one complete car which was de-skinned, and on which the AC Ghia prototype was built...but the AC Ghia, the subject of this thread, was never series produced  (EDIT: though it appeared in at least two different paint schemes).

The bare AC 3000ME chassis shipped to Ghia by AC was stretched to become the basis of another Ghia prototype for Ford, the 1982 Quicksilver.

https://www.carscoops.com/2020/04/how-awesome-would-it-have-been-if-lincoln-produced-its-1983-quicksilver-ghia-concept/

Edited January 3, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy
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[stitchdup]

32 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

I can see a lot of citroen bx styling in this one, especially around the back end

[DonW]

I should have got this as it is so familiar to me. Christmas brain fade.

Happy New Year, Auto-quizzers!

Cheers,

-Don.

[Ace-Garageguy]

2 hours ago, stitchdup said:

I can see a lot of citroen bx styling in this one, especially around the back end

Probably not surprisingly. Marcello Gandini at Bertone did the BX, and there was a lot of cross-pollination among design houses.

The BX was already in production when the Ghia Quicksilver hit the show circuit, and it's likely that the former influenced the latter, at least somewhat...and I find the Quicksilver to be cleaner overall.

To me, the most remarkable thing about the Quicksilver is the fact that it's a mid-engined 4-door...a very unusual configuration.

[dw1603]

The styling details scream Ford and I was well aware of the AC 3000ME but I still didn’t get it. Obviously I wasn’t paying as much attention in 1981 as I should have been.

[peteski]

To me it looked like a Fiero-based kit car.  I guess it was the mid-engine thing.