Show your slant 6 a body!

Here are a few photos of my car, an official factory import to France that I purchased from a breaker's yard for € 450. Needless to say, one had to be fairly wealthy to purchase and maintain an American in 1975.

I've modified the motor extensively with (mostly) Australian performance parts. As a guideline, I've installed an Edelbrock 600cfm 4-barrel carburettor, which has more than 3 times the through-put of the original 1-barrel carter. I also have a tuned intake manifold, a gas-flowed cylinder head with larger valves and dual valve springs, high compression pistons, a mild racing camshaft and a tubular extractor feeding into a 2-1/4" Magnaflow builder's kit exhaust. I was surprised how well everything came together and the outcome is quite homogeneous. I mean to change the alternator to a 100amp item and install an aluminium competition radiator. Then the electro-mechanical side will be almost perfect and my guess is that it produces ca 300hp. The car will do a quarter mile in the low 14-s.

I've also installed new front and rear axles (the latter a Ford 9" with a "Strange Engineering" limited-slip differential) from "Control Freak Suspensions" with coil-over shock absorbers and 4-wheel "Wilwood" disc brakes. The wheels are 7" x 17" American Racing Salt Flats in the front and 10.5" wide in the rear, with Pirelli P-Zero Assimetrico tyres (245/45 YR 17-s front and 285/40 YR 17-s rear).

The interior is redone in leather by a professional saddler.

Here are some photos..