Ford 427 SOHC engines

^^^^^BAD ASS^^^^

 

I love this video…Hubert ripping through the gears in wingtips…

 

1:58 -2:15 Goosebumps!!

 

60-72 greatest time ever for drag racing….look at the amount of people there….amazing

 

There was a legend in the late 70's of a gent in Michigan with a Cammer in a 61 Starliner who got a ticket for "Excessive Horsepower" while idling at a stoplight

 

Well this existed in a garage in Dearborn....driven by Hi Riser Member...Wayne Gapp

 

Yeah, I know who....

 

John Vermeersch.

 

....That would be a ticket to treasure! A citation worthy of framing and hanging on the wall......Don.

 

You mean this guy….

 

Another friend has 3 Cammer race cars, a Pinto, "Light Duty"- a Maverick, "Medium Duty"- and a 62 Galaxie, "Heavy Duty". The Galaxie he got from John, used to be a C/MP car when John had it. John has huge stockpiles of NOS and used parts that are slowly being sold off on ebay and FB. Really great guy and a genuine BTDT
BTW, my old buddy Walter Cantrell got what has to be the slowest speeding ticket ever in a gennie 427 Cobra in 1976- 40 in a 35 zone, right in front of the Ford dealership in Napa, on Saturday afternoon. Drew quite a crowd, which PO'd the cop, so he wouldn't let him off with a warning, got the ticket

 

Heavy Duty, and CSX 3193 in 1976

 

Why do cop's have to be such Asshole's? Why can't they just sit back and enjoy it???

 

Pretty sure the cop would have let him go, if the crowd wasn't telling him to quite so loudly

 

This just reinforces my theory...

 

I owned what had been a SOHC Pro Stock "medium duty" car, bad news was the cars' history was blotted out when it was turned into a gas and altered car with a tube chassis.
I won't go into detail as to what engine I used, it might give Gene fits!

 

You already told me lol. You gotta face St. Peter someday

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

 

Yep! We were having pizza at an Italian restaurant on Woodward Ave. Once and him and the better half were at the next table over.... I wanted to say hi, but we were all busy stuffing our faces...

 

Yep, one of the great ones- he sent me a couple BOB FORD license plate frames for my Galaxies a couple years ago

 

My Falcon…

 

Those are the ones!

 

Stumbled across this while looking for something else.

 

Found this yesterday.

 

This was shoved in a brand new 69 Maverick…

 

Ditto the Rick's Garage post. 500 were built.

Earlier in the thread someone wrote about Jim Green's collection of 'Cammers'. At one time he had 28 of them. Also, he never raced that motor. When he had his "Green Elephant" TF/FC s, he ran Keith Black Hemi's in them. He did have an SOHC in the front engine dragster "The Assassin" that he restored in the early 2000s. That car originally (late '60s) did have an Ed Pink built SOHC in it.

 

I'm thinking more like 2500 cammers were built by Ford.....
I could be wrong.....

 

Ran into John Vermeersch this morning….