Over the past couple of years, various storied manufacturers have announced that they will be creating “continuation” cars. This is an interesting idea, but what are they? There are a couple of schools of thought about what constitutes a continuation car. One school suggests that the car uses an allocated chassis number and is built using the same components albeit many … [Read more...]
Ford Windsor V8 Engine
Ford’s Windsor series of V8 motors were fitted to cars from 1962 right through to about 2001. They were built in Cleveland, Ohio and Windsor, Ontario where they got their name from. The engines were 90° small block V8’s with overhead valves – 2 per cylinder. The term small block refers to engines less than 6 litres. The Windsor replaced the Ford Y-Block V8 that was developed … [Read more...]
AC Cars
If you mention AC to most enthusiasts they immediately think of the Cobra – of which many fibreglass replicas exist. This car was the quintessential high performance sports car and was created at a time when many manufacturers were building similar vehicles. More on this later but let’s start at the beginning back in 1903. It was in 1903 that the forerunner of AC was founded … [Read more...]