Formula Ferguson Triumph 2.5pi estate

[geeman237]

I had heard about this car before, but never seen photos. Wow, what an estimate at about 30,000 GBP!

http://www.oldtimergalerie.ch/images/auction/trium...

[rallycross]

This would be the equivent of an Audi Rs4 in 1972!

[alolympic]

Looks good, but that is a lot of money, it would still only be on a par with a Dolomite Sprint performance wise. Rarity adds an incredible multiplier to prices (values?)

[finlo]

Allthough it says its a one off there was one lying in a builders yard near me 30 years ago that I was told had a Stag engine.

I'm sure this subject has come up on here before

[Hamish Finn]

rallycross said:

This would be the equivent of an Audi Rs4 in 1972!

But Jensen did it first in 1966!

Audi had the good grace however, to feature a Jensen FF in the foyer of their Museum in Ingolstadt, to show "who did it first".

[viscountdallara]

Hamish Finn said:

But Jensen did it first in 1966!

Sure about that ?? Ferguson built his own first.


http://www.ferguson-museum.co.uk/racing_car.htm

[Scotty2]

If anyone can point me to a FF gearbox as used in the Bedford CF2 FF, I'd be eternally greatful.

Trying to get my 350P back to 4wd but it would seem that I'd have more sucess with Unicorn farming and distributer of Hen's Teeth...

[Hamish Finn]

viscountdallara said:

Hamish Finn said:

But Jensen did it first in 1966!

Sure about that ?? Ferguson built his own first.


http://www.ferguson-museum.co.uk/racing_car.htm

We're talking production cars here.

[P100]

I was an apprentice at GKN Hardy Spicer in the 70`s and found myself in the works prototype garage.

Apart from the 3 litre 4x4 Capris we had, there was also a 4x4 Triumph Stag,and a Stag engined 4x4 Triumph estate.

The Stag was still around the Lichfield area 10 years ago, but we had to cut the Capri`s up as they had been so badly abused by the press that they were just plain dangerous to drive !

[roscobbc]

There were also the 69/70 428 Cobra Jet Mustangs with FF conversion.

[whirlybird]

Hi Guys has anybody got any pics or drawings of how the front wheels were driven ?
Also as a side note I built a 4 wheel drive Scalextric Ferguson F1 car using 2 motors back to back, no steering, when I was about 13 years old, this was scratch built, can't remember where the body came from, but used lots of Airfix car bodies to build my own scalextric cars

[thegreenhell]

whirlybird said:

Hi Guys has anybody got any pics or drawings of how the front wheels were driven ?

It looks like it has a transfer case on the back of the transmission which directed drive forwards via a secondary prop shaft alongside the engine to a front differential.



The transfer case was chain driven, at least on this early C-V8 FF

[aeropilot]

roscobbc said:

There were also the 69/70 428 Cobra Jet Mustangs with FF conversion.

There was at least one 66/68 notchback FF Mustang built as well - was even tested by a UK motor magazine (have a copy of it somewhere)

There were also some FF Zodiac V6 estates built as well for a UK Police trial IIRC (which may have been the reason behind the 2.5Pi conversions as well?)

[mad4amanda]

Were the capris not the ones used in Rallycross in the early 70s I could swear they used FF 4wd system?

[aeropilot]

mad4amanda said:

Were the capris not the ones used in Rallycross in the early 70s I could swear they used FF 4wd system?

I suspect not as at least one of the ex-Boreham built rallycross Capri's survives and was/is being restored.

[rallycross]

aeropilot said:

mad4amanda said:

Were the capris not the ones used in Rallycross in the early 70s I could swear they used FF 4wd system?

I suspect not as at least one of the ex-Boreham built rallycross Capri's survives and was/is being restored.