In the back of my mind I can't help thinking the Cleveland design heads came from the Cheby Mystery Motor that Ford bought from NASCAR in 1963! But no one at Engine Enginerring would ever own up to this!
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Originally Posted by BlueOval Ralph
63 Cheby ran the Canted valve engine,Starting at Daytona in Feb of 1963, Ford raised so much hell over it GM was forced to sell one of the engines to them, It was around Ford Enginerring for a long time, Ford also bought one of the Z-11 cars as I recall it was a Maroon color, it was supposed to be scrap in late 63 but rumors say it was driven out the gate at the test track in Dearborn. In those days the way cars were scraped is the Chrusher lot was behind the Dearborn Inn at the Enginerring Center. The way they were accounted for is there was a brass tag with a number of the vehicle like 306-T-225 on the tag held on with a sheet metal screw. When scrapped the tag was removed and taken to a bean counter and he took vehicle off the books only problem was nobody ever checked to make sure the vehicle went into the Chrusher lot!
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