Re: For sale: Bill Wonder\'s GT40 (103)
Several years ago I saw a magazine article about a GT-40 owner who put the cammer in his car. His name as I remember was Jim Tsoning (sp?) and I think he was from Indiana. I have a lot of magazines in storage,(I never throw anything away)and I haven't been able to find the article, but chances are I still have it.
According to the article, though Ford never put that motor in a GT40, they appear to have been planning to. Mr Tsoning found that Ford had cast several parts to make the conversion, which he was able to procure for his car. Apparently the Indy motor had a distributor set up with a plug in amplifier, kind of a early electronic ignition. They thought for the street that they'd just use a standard duel point. When they fired it up it just didn't seem to have power, and a good street engine would suck his doors off. So he put the Indy distributer in and the car became King Kong, a real montser,and he was a happy camper!
I don't remember the serial number of the car, only that it was the "Mk 1", and I don't know what happened to it.Maybe another member can elaborate on this, but that's all my dusty memory can add.