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MK1 2 door V8
Not much to report here only that the car is a 64 2 door Body is in excellent shape with only a little rust on the driver side guard bottom edge and bottom of quarter panel. Paint color yet to be worked out.

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The Story
This car I purchased many many years ago from a local historic racer less motor and box. I always had the intention of fitting a V8 to it as I always wanted to have one. It was the ideal starting point. Over the years work on it was gradually done, but because i was only ever going to fit a Windsor V8 it had created some engineering problems. Over the years there were starter motor problems fouling with steering box and exhausts. The other problem was ensuring the car had adequate cooling. This is where the project halting problems began.

The whole project halted for years and years as we couldn't find away around these problems. The car was always going to be a street car NOT a drag car, it would have been much easier to build a track car only, but that's not what I wanted so further time went by. Eventually with new developments in aftermarket parts and conversion options these problems could be overcome so that's where we are now.
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