Old Ford pics

[RICH MUISE]

Thanks for the added info and pics.

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Perry Mason

[CobraJoe]

[Ecode70D]

Picture #647...Someone went through a lot of work to make a nice looking car not pretty. 

[Ford Blue blood]

4X

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57 station wagons

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[Tom S]

I like the idea of showing up with a 67 Fairlane on a 14 ft. open car trailer and winning the Daytona 500. Doesn't hurt having Mario driving to.

I saw a segment on TV about Mario & NASCAR a while back.
When Mario was new at NASCAR he started to figure out that he wasn't gettin' the engines that his teammates were. Just didn't have the speed of the others. He went to the Holman-Moody engine shop where he was told that all the engines were the same in power, revs, etc.
All the engines had been tagged with the drivers names.  So Mario started to swap some of those tags around & was quickly told that he couldn't do that. That cinched it for Mario.  Apparently he raised a stink with someone & finally got better engines. Wish I could find a link to a video where he told this story himself.
I did find this. It tells of other things done to hold him back. 
https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a32710/mario-andretti-daytona-500-history/ 
Pretty shameful stuff done to such a great, great driver.

[hiball3985]

I saw a segment on TV about Mario & NASCAR a while back.
When Mario was new at NASCAR he started to figure out that he wasn't gettin' the engines that his teammates were. Just didn't have the speed of the others. He went to the Holman-Moody engine shop where he was told that all the engines were the same in power, revs, etc.
All the engines had been tagged with the drivers names.  So Mario started to swap some of those tags around & was quickly told that he couldn't do that. That cinched it for Mario.  Apparently he raised a stink with someone & finally got better engines. Wish I could find a link to a video where he told this story himself.
I did find this. It tells of other things done to hold him back. 
https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a32710/mario-andretti-daytona-500-history/ 
Pretty shameful stuff done to such a great, great driver.

I saw that show also, great story and I was in heaven seeing all those 427's on the truck at the track..

[Tom S]

Joe, do you have any info on that killer lookin' '64 Fairlane in post #644?  That thing is badass!

[rmk57]

Not sure how many have seen this but I still get a kick out of this tank sliding around the corners.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ser-fqlT22M

[Tom S]

Not sure how many have seen this but I still get a kick out of this tank sliding around the corners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ser-fqlT22M

That was great!

[CobraJoe]

Joe, do you have any info on that killer lookin' '64 Fairlane in post #644?  That thing is badass!

"Holman Moody 1964 Ford Fairlane 7-litre at Goodwood
This car is a rare sight in the UK. Turn the clock back, though, and you'll see an original, Holman Moody-built Fairlane Thunderbolt being tested by Alan Mann at the West Sussex track in 1965. We recreated that scene this summer, bringing a similar GT40-beating saloon to a blustery.

Classic Driver readers will be familiar with the grey car's prodigious performance and its stellar record in recent years, winning the Nurburgring Oldtimer Grand Prix Historic Marathon and finishing second overall in the Spa 6 Hours.
The Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt was a homologation special sanctioned by Ford with the aim of putting the largest possible engine (a 427c.i. from the big Galaxie, as used in the Ford Mk IIs) into a small  by US standards  bodyshell.
The NASCAR welded-in roll-cage, adjustable suspension and front disc brakes are all homologated in period.

Nowadays, this car carries FIA-sanctioned HTP papers and runs in the GTP class against the fastest sports-racing cars; very much like the original did when stock-car specialist Fireball Roberts crossed the line second overall (behind AJ Foyt in a mid-engined Scarab) in the 250-mile American Challenge Cup race held at the FIA-sanctioned Daytona Continental meeting in February 1964.

The Daytona Beach Sunday News Journal described Roberts placing as a shock much the same feeling many drivers have today when the big three-box saloon comes up to lap them and then disappears into the distance.

With a 427c.i. side-oiler V8 (period original, and with many features such as cross-bolted main bearing caps unique to this type of engine), it easily swallows Goodwood's rolling straights. What's surprising, though, is how well it copes with the slower corners, including the famous Goodwood chicane. And, despite fears to the contrary, with judicious restraint on the throttle it kept to the circuit's strict noise regulations, too.

While Alan Mann's car (later owned and raced by Martin Birrane) is now lost to posterity, this faithful recreation was constructed by Holman Moody in 2002-2003. The famous North Carolina-based race shop built the originals, so it was logical to choose them to build up another, using all their expertise and comprehensive record-keeping to produce a correct facsimile of the 1964 original.

he German owners of this car have kept meticulous records of both its build by Holman Moody and the racing record of the original.

It has a history file like few others, and is the only one in the world sanctioned for historic racing and likely to remain that way. So, if you get the chance, do try and see the car in action at the 'Ring or at Spa.
And for those GT40, Lotus, Elva and Brabham drivers tired of being humiliated by the fridge on wheels, you never know, it could be yours one day."

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'58 ragtop