57 Fords at Goodwood Video

[djfordmanjack]

So much fun to see the Battlebird against the 3 Litre Healey and the bird has plenty of power and sounds nasty !

the Fairlane comes in at 5:40 min. Enjoy !

ole Yank tanks giving the Brits a hard time 

[rmk57]

  I heard the Fairlane has a healthy y-block under the hood, but the information from the internet isn't always true.

[Jeff Norwell]

I heard the Fairlane has a healthy y-block under the hood, but the information from the internet isn't always true.

FE..390

[djfordmanjack]

it appears that the 57 Battlebird is one of the original 57 race cars, the one equipped with a 430 MEL. details in this video:

[djfordmanjack]

here's more info on the car and their owners/racing team.

https://www.billshepherdmustang.com/1957-battlebird

[Ray]

A buddy of mine out here was a mechanic at DePaulo in the '50's. He built (assembled) both motors. One was a phase one blown 312, the other was an injected Lincoln. The T-bird guys have a lot of information on the race cars and the supercharged cars. TARTC has invoices for the production cars. (Gate release copies as all the non-race cars were built in Detroit). I drove an "H" code gunmetal "F" code T-bird on the street out here for years. Now I'm working on a red one.