And that's where the story almost finished. The business stayed in this state for most of the next twenty years. Rory was working at car component manufacturers, Tubemakers. He obtained a Masters of Engineering Sciences, Materials, Welding and Joining. In his spare time he repaired damaged ASPs out of his home. He also built three further ASPs.

In 1993 Rory decided to open his own automotive engineering business, Rory Thompson Services. He used his now vast experience for defect removal, new parts certification and other general automotive engineering services. Ray and Rory, along with Andre Bosman and Colin Reilly, revived their interest in a new type of sports car. Even though production had shifted from Alpha Street, the company name continued.

The goal was to build a sports car almost completely based on a readily available donor car to provide most components, including drivetrain, suspension, steering and even seats and instrumentation. Rory utilized the then recently released Holden VN Commodore and initially designated the car an ASP 350. The car was larger than previous ASPs, having a 3800cc V6 engine. The car’s styling borrowed heavily from the Morgan Roadster series of vehicles and used moulds for the body panels, taken from Colin Reilly’s aluminium masters. The car was finally finished in 2003 and redesignated ASP 380 after the 3.8 Litre engine. The 2005 release of the Mitsubishi 380, also built in Adelaide, convinced Rory to return to the previous 350 designation to avoid confusion.

The current phase of ASP production was kick-started in 2002 when Bill Finch, a machinist and land yacht racer approached Rory to build a series of vehicles for him and a group of nine friends and colleagues. Bill proposed that his group not only build their own vehicles, but update many of the features of the cars and also develop a full set of jigs, a cut list and a full set of prototype chassis components. Instead of series production, as had occurred in the 70’s, the ASP’s of the new millennium were to be built to the then Transport SA’s Individually Constructed Vehicle (ICV) rules, allowing the cars to be built with exemptions from some design rules which, if implemented, would make singly constructed vehicles overly complex and prohibitively expensive.

Bill’s group worked for 2 years before word of the cars spread. A second group of five cars began production in 2005, using the jigs created by Group One. One of the Builders, Richard Pagliaro, was an owner of one of the original ASPs and was back to build his second. As of September 2006, both groups were essentially at the same point with predicted completion dates of some vehicles early in 2007. Various interested builders are currently in the process of forming Group Three, with an anticipated commencement date early in 2007.