That's a really great article you found, Nige, but as we all know, the COB cars they mention are completely and utterly AC, NOT Shelby!
I remember as a kid looking at the pics of the Taft & Richardson Cobras wth their huuuuuuge arches in ACOC mags which I still have, but that's the first time I've seen a colour photo!
Ian Richardson moved to Llangollen many years ago, where he built the Wildcat Rover-based engines, 6.0l and 500+bhp!
I always meant to go visit, but he retired around 2012, and a company in Deeside now produces his Wildcat heads.
Nik,
Did you really mean Rover engine? The article mentions Chevy 5.3L.
6.0L? I thought 5.4L was pushing the extremes of the newer 4.6 block let alone the older original variety.
As previously mentioned else where one of our members sprints a Rover 5.2 MGB.
Peter C
Superb pics!
Peter. Yes, I meant Rover. Ian Richardson was making his own engine blocks and heads based on the Buick/Rover design. Sadly his website is long gone, but I found THIS.