It was just as well the car-starved market after the Second War was not choosy. AC Cars at Thames Ditton was making the same sort of car as in 1939. Its aluminium ohc engine had been shown at the London Motor Show following The First World War. The AC 2 Litre had half-elliptic springs and was largely hand-made using old machine tools. Yet it laid the foundation of a dynasty that led to the AC Shelby Cobra of the 1960s