Article: Robbie Francevic's 427 Fairlane

[Jac Mac]

Always wondered why the transmission of this car had bronze bush's in the cluster, would have been from the G-Box failure toward the end of its competition life. Dont know for sure whether it still had the 427 in it when Woodsy bought it as write off after the garage fire, would have been too easy to stick a 332 or other FE engine to recoupe some $$$ on sale. The Detroit Locker & 31 spline axle spent some time in one of PJW's early stock cars, front calipers & discs ended up on my OSCA Cortina ( interestingly these were 65 Mustang 4 pot stuff which might not have been those originally fitted to the Fairlane either), Trans parts went to PDL & what was left of the body shell is under some new John Deere tractors at the display yard, body was beyond any form of repair after the fire.

Checked some part numbers today, only disc brake rotors & calipers that appear to have been available at the time would have been the mustang ones I mention above, Larger Lincoln types that were used on T/A mustangs etc were post 1968>