I don't think the guy knows what he has here.
Looking at the car and in particular the transmission tunnel this looks to be
one of the Isle of Wight Frogeye (Keith Brading) replicas. Early cars had a
donor car and later cars were all brand new. After the IOW company went bust
a couple of other very similiar cars appeared one with a K-series engine, one
with a Jap engine and one with a much later Ford Zetec engine.
However, I never heard of any of the fibreglass replicas using the Ford
Crossflow engine. Of course there were Spridgets even a 1500 fitted with this
engine but I wasn't aware one went into a IOW replica.
Holbay are something of a phoenix company and while they did a lot of Ford
stuff they were better known for Rootes group product (Sunbeam, Hillman, etc).
The Ford Crossflow might well rev like a top and be an ace engine but it's
heavy and I bet causes a lot of push understeer. I bet you could put a
non-period correct Zetec engine in and have a really fast car and a lighter
engine to
boot.
Interesting car
Daniel1312
In a message dated 31/03/05 06:13:26 GMT Daylight Time, duncan@pondhop.com
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> tempting..
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