The DOHC Ford V-8 This Ford engine was part of the changing of the guard in racing during the early sixties. Ford was focusing on dominating racing at the time and developed this engine to help with their quest. It started out as 260 c.i. dohc V-8 which developed 425 h.p. The first time it ran at Indy was 1964 in 12 cars and Roger Ward finished second in his rear engine Ford powered car to AJ Foyt, who drove a conventional front engine Offenhauser pow-ered roadster. For 1965, Ford in conjunction with Lotus and their rear drive chassis took the win with Jim Clark driving. The engine went on to win a reported 73 times before dropping out of racing. The Old Motor photo.
Chevrolet’s Thunderbird? The Four-Seat Corvette June 5, 2021 by Michael Lamm. A four-place split-window Corvette? It nearly happened. Chevrolet, before giving birth to the celebrated 1963 coupe, seriously considered tapping into the success of the four-seater Thunderbird. T-Bird sales tripled in 1958 when Ford added a back seat. Chevrolet was feeling pressure to head in the same direction. “Basically it was Ed Cole’s idea,” Corvette designer Larry Shinoda told me in a 1978 interview. Shinoda was head of a special-projects studio back in 1961. He and his small team of designers and modelers laid out and directed construction of a running four-place C-2 prototype that year.
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